craigkillie Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 See when you get your degree, how do they aggregate all of your marks for individual modules for your final grade? Is it simply a case of an average of every module you do? How does your grade for your dissertation factor in? Going into 4th year and never really understood how it works Not sure if it's the same everywhere, but mine was just an average of all the modules. My project (I didn't have a dissertation) was given a larger weight in the overall calculation. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICTChris Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 I've got a place on a graduate scheme working in financial services. Who for? Feel free to IM me if you don't want to spill it out on here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paul-r-cfc Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 At Glasgow, do results in 1st and second year go towards your eventual degree classification or is it just when you start 3rd year? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 At Glasgow, do results in 1st and second year go towards your eventual degree classification or is it just when you start 3rd year? It might depend on other courses, but for every one I'm aware of it it's only 3rd and 4th year results. Obviously would be different if it's a 5 year course. It's a 50-50 split for my course with the only caveat being a dissertation needs to be passed to get an honours degree. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodjesSixteenIncher Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Says on the SAAS website that they'll pay "up to" 3.5k to support certain postgrad courses. In terms of courses that I'd actually be interested in doing, the best I'm finding is about that cost for a one year masters. Question, if any of you ken, is what does 'up to' mean in this case? There's no point me in applying for it, then being told I'm getting a grand or something and having to stump up. I'm skint as f**k Any insight appreciated chaps. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintsFan Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Says on the SAAS website that they'll pay "up to" 3.5k to support certain postgrad courses. In terms of courses that I'd actually be interested in doing, the best I'm finding is about that cost for a one year masters. Question, if any of you ken, is what does 'up to' mean in this case? There's no point me in applying for it, then being told I'm getting a grand or something and having to stump up. I'm skint as f**k Any insight appreciated chaps. I did a Masters in 2011/12 and got some funding towards it. They seem to have a list of supported courses for each year for Scottish post-grad students and if your course is on the list then they can give you some funding. I also got extra funding from a trust called Carnegie-Cameron: http://www.carnegie-trust.org/our-award-schemes/postgraduate-schemes.html I got about 8 grand in the end so its definitely worth looking in to and there does seem to be a lot better funding for Scottish Students looking to study a post-grad in Scotland. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushroom Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 Forget numbers, let's put this into perspective: There are people in this country who can legally buy alcohol that weren't born when Toy Story came out. Eta: What makes it worse is that I'll be a year older in 3 mins (that sounds odd, I know) That made me realise there are people who can legally get married who weren't born the last time Scotland reached the finals of a major tournament. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted March 20, 2013 Share Posted March 20, 2013 That made me realise there are people who can legally get married who weren't born the last time Scotland reached the finals of a major tournament. Perhaps in Brechin? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nessies long lost ghost Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 All three of my exams are very early. The first one is on the 16th April, then the 22nd April and the final one is one the 24th April then that's me until September 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big Fifer Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Not even looked at the Edinburgh uni timetable yet. I'm still in the library finishing 1/3 lab reports due on friday. Then another on monday and 3 assignments on the tuesday. Nightmare! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rustyarabnuts Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 My daughter has an interview for dundee uni at the start of April (nursing ) so I'm hoping and praying for her 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mushroom Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Perhaps in Brechin? Possibly, are they that bad at arithmetic up there? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Uncle Psychosis Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 See when you get your degree, how do they aggregate all of your marks for individual modules for your final grade? Is it simply a case of an average of every module you do? How does your grade for your dissertation factor in? Going into 4th year and never really understood how it works Its normally more complicated than that. In at least one Science department at Edinburgh there is a complicated statistical sum that weights all of your modules against how you did in that module relative to how you did in your other modules and how you did in that module relative to everyone else who also took that module. I think it all comes out as quite close to just an average grade but its not always quite that simple. For dissertations, they are normally weighted as the equivalent to some number of lecture courses. My masters project counted as three lecture courses. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I'll be starting University (if I meet my condition, of course) and I was born in 1996. How does that make you feel? f**k you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodjesSixteenIncher Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 I did a Masters in 2011/12 and got some funding towards it. They seem to have a list of supported courses for each year for Scottish post-grad students and if your course is on the list then they can give you some funding. I also got extra funding from a trust called Carnegie-Cameron: http://www.carnegie-trust.org/our-award-schemes/postgraduate-schemes.html I got about 8 grand in the end so its definitely worth looking in to and there does seem to be a lot better funding for Scottish Students looking to study a post-grad in Scotland. Yeah the course was from the list of SAAS funded courses. Was just unsure of what 'some funding means'. Do they tend to hand out the full 3.5k or some of it? Cheers for the bursary link, that's definitely worth pursuing 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 People are getting young these days Scott, are you doing History at Stirling? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SodjesSixteenIncher Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 To add further annoying questions into the mix has anyone ever done an English language taught postgrad abroad? Probably not going to happen but just a thought. My problem is the few remaining countries with state funded higher education are the better off ones where the cost of living is high. Might end up stumping up the €800 tuition fees for some polytech in Belgrade or somewhere. Probably not going to enhance my career but it'd be a decent laugh for a year. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaintsFan Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Yeah the course was from the list of SAAS funded courses. Was just unsure of what 'some funding means'. Do they tend to hand out the full 3.5k or some of it? Cheers for the bursary link, that's definitely worth pursuing You should get the full 3.5k I think. I basically applied through the uni for the SAAS funding but it took SAAS ages to get back to me so I phoned SAAS directly, spoke to a guy for 5 minutes and he approved it over the phone pretty much there and then as my course was on the list as well. Then you just show the uni finance department the letter/email you get confirming the award and they should just knock it off the cost. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottR96 Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 People are getting young these days Scott, are you doing History at Stirling? Yes. Do/did you do that? What's it like? f**k you. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamboMikey Posted March 21, 2013 Share Posted March 21, 2013 Yes. Do/did you do that? What's it like? Aye, I'm in 3rd year. The history department is good and so are the teachers. Been pretty easy so far. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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