Hedgecutter Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 No such qualification exists. At primary school we had these coloured ‘SRA cards’ for English with different exercises which got more difficult as you completed them. I’d guess that they’d be looking for a ‘red’ level of competence at the very least. That was ca. 1995 though. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 McKee was probably about when they did 5-14 Curriculum, in which case the joke would have worked if Rowan had said they were looking for level E or F English. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Honest_Man#1 Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Chose Business and Management at Glasgow instead of similar courses at Strathclyde and Edinburgh. Also applied for Queen Margaret Halls, anybody stayed in them? -2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 We had a paper that was due on Friday, finished it with a couple of hours to spare and think I made a pretty good job of it. However, today on my group's Facebook group, one of the girls in my class (the lecturers favourite I reckon) has received an email saying how great her paper was and that she had passed (although she wasn't given her actual pass mark). No one else has received anything back yet. An I wrong in thinking that this is bang out of order, and that we should all receive an email at around the same time? Oh, and I'm going into 3rd year studying Management at Caley next year, if anyone is studying this or has done in the past, could they give me an idea of how many reports we are going to be expected to write each semester. Our lecturers keep saying that reports are all we will be doing for the final two years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Chose Business and Management at Glasgow instead of similar courses at Strathclyde and Edinburgh. Also applied for Queen Margaret Halls, anybody stayed in them? Business and Management at Glasgow is a ridiculously easy course - excellent choice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 An I wrong in thinking that this is bang out of order, and that we should all receive an email at around the same time? Unless there's going to be a prize-giving ceremony which would be a waste of time if she wasn't there, then yes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xbl Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) We had a paper that was due on Friday, finished it with a couple of hours to spare and think I made a pretty good job of it. However, today on my group's Facebook group, one of the girls in my class (the lecturers favourite I reckon) has received an email saying how great her paper was and that she had passed (although she wasn't given her actual pass mark). No one else has received anything back yet. An I wrong in thinking that this is bang out of order, and that we should all receive an email at around the same time? Yes, it is bang out of order, and it is highly unprofessional. An email afterwards fair enough, but before informing anyone else? Not on at all. Edited to add, and that is coming from the staff/marking perspective. Edited April 3, 2012 by xbl 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I always thought that the primary reason that you went to university was to gain qualifications that would one day see you compete for top jobs or at least a job that you really wanted to do. The social aspect being an everyday occurence just like life outside a university course. Silly me! Yes, silly you. Another 'University of Lifer' who believes that universities are job factories, as opposed to gaining knowledge and social experiences for their own sake. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Cheers guys. I wouldn't have been too bothered if it was just a normal report, but it's a third of our overall mark in one of the final two exams coming up next month. Seems to be the norm though, only wish I was flavour of the month, desperate to know the result! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
craigkillie Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 We had a paper that was due on Friday, finished it with a couple of hours to spare and think I made a pretty good job of it. However, today on my group's Facebook group, one of the girls in my class (the lecturers favourite I reckon) has received an email saying how great her paper was and that she had passed (although she wasn't given her actual pass mark). No one else has received anything back yet. An I wrong in thinking that this is bang out of order, and that we should all receive an email at around the same time? I'd say it was wrong to do that. Are the papers anonymised? Ours always were. Having said that, my current PhD advisor took one of my undergraduate courses last year, and I had to go in to see him about a reference last year, in between the exams finishing and us getting our marks back. We had a quick chat about the exams, and when I said to him I was slightly caught out by the difficulty of his exam, he told me not to worry because he'd already marked two of the three questions on my paper and I was getting on fine. The papers were all anonymous, but he'd recognised my handwriting. That was a private off the record discussion and I didn't broadcast it to people publicly. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I'd say it was wrong to do that. Are the papers anonymised? Ours always were. I don't think they were, which is a bit strange as the first part of the paper (which was handed in back in January) was. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marshmallo Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Yes, silly you. Another 'University of Lifer' who believes that universities are job factories, as opposed to gaining knowledge and social experiences for their own sake. My choice of course and University was made almost solely on what my career prospects would be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 My choice of course and University was made almost solely on what my career prospects would be. Yeah, me too. Granted I'm still at college so cannot comment on uni yet, but I can count on one hand the amount of times I've went for a beer with people in my class, and I've known them for nearly two years. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bonksy+HisChristianParade Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) Chose Business and Management at Glasgow instead of similar courses at Strathclyde and Edinburgh. Also applied for Queen Margaret Halls, anybody stayed in them? Excellent choice. I've done zero work this year in Business. I studied for about half an hour before my exams last semester and got As. That tactic doesn't work as well for Law though... QM Halls are really good as well. I stay in Murano and I sort of wish I stayed in QM. If you were to stay in Murano then make sure it's a large mixed flat and not a small one. I have a small flat and this semester it's three girls and me, which isn't ideal. QM are slightly more expensive iirc, but are much nicer and it also means you tend to get a lot of posher girls there. Posh girls are hot and dirty, which is a winning combination I'm sure you'll agree. Edited April 3, 2012 by Bonksy+HisChristianParade 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ad Lib Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) My University choice was based on wanting to go to one of the more highly regarded Universities for my course, not wanting to live at home, and preferring Glasgow for various reasons including but far from completely determined by the prospect of regular Thistle games instead of rare in Edinburgh. Edited April 3, 2012 by Ad Lib 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) My University choice was based on wanting to go to one of the more highly regarded Universities for my course, not wanting to live at home, and preferring Glasgow for various reasons including but far from completely determined by the prospect of regular Thistle games instead of rare in Edinburgh. My choice was driven by the desire to get as far away from Fife as possible while still getting free tuition fees and RGU missed out by being just one mile closer than Aberdeen Uni. The fact that Aberdeen was the only engineering dept. which let you cover all of mechanical / electrical / civil engineering over the first two years before specialising rather than right at the start like everywhere else had absolutely nothing to do with it of course. I actually wanted to do geology but my careers dept. at school put me off by saying that there were few opportunities in this country and that on average they're very poorly paid. Instead I went for my second choice engineering and when I started at Aberdeen and found that the geology dept. was across the road and that f***in' hunners of well paid jobs are everywhere around the north-east, I jumped ship mid-way through first year. I would have torched the school careers library but they knocked the entire school down and replaced it with another before I got the chance. I can still exorcise some demons from that bit of ground though and I think I can pin-point where the office formerly was using Google Earth so if you happen to live at 25 Myrtle Wynd in Dunfermline, I'd be a bit edgy if I were you. Edited April 3, 2012 by Hedgecutter 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supras Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) Excellent choice. I've done zero work this year in Business. I studied for about half an hour before my exams last semester and got As. That tactic doesn't work as well for Law though... It gets better in honours, no tutorials, food in the second hours of lectures and videos. And if you want your coursework checked by the lecturer before you hand it in you can. And they start off giving you an A1 then wait for you to f**k it up. As for Law I've been reliably informed you need to suck dick to get a first Edited April 3, 2012 by Supras 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 (edited) I chose my course because I was interested in the subject, the topics in modern history and even most of the lectures. If I wanted better career prospects I'd have tried something tedious like accounts instead, which was absolutely piss easy at Higher level. Would have probably went to Stirling too if the prospect of a juicy scholarship didn't win out in the end. Edited April 3, 2012 by vikingTON 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hedgecutter Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 I chose my course because I was interested in the subject, the topics in modern history and even most of the lectures. If I wanted better career prospects I'd have tried something tedious like accounts instead, which was absolutely piss easy at Higher level. Would you not have preferred to have gone down the middle a bit and chosen something that still interested you but was vocational so that once you're finished uni you could have a far better chance of getting into a career which you actually like? Fair enough it's nice to study something interesting for four or five years but what about the whole time after that. That's why I went for the engineering route which was my second choice as I'd always liked sciences, design (no, not in a Gok Wan way) etc etc. If I hadn't gone to uni, I've not a feckin' clue what I'd have done. Would have probably joined the police but that would have ended in disaster now I still can't apply for a driver's licence. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vikingTON Posted April 3, 2012 Share Posted April 3, 2012 Would you not have preferred to have gone down the middle a bit and chosen something that still interested you but was vocational so that once you're finished uni you could have a far better chance of getting into a career which you actually like? Fair enough it's nice to study something interesting for four or five years but what about the whole time after that. Not really, it's not as if I'm doing an Honours in Latin anyway. At worst I can go on and do a post-grad in teaching, but fully intend to do post-graduate stuff in history at some point in time anyway. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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