QuoteOriginally posted by: playerGenerally yes although some uni are even more pedantic than that e.g you need to get over 70 in all courses as opposed to getting an average above 70%I think 70 is quite low, some people told me you have to reach at least 90..is not true?

QuoteOriginally posted by: playerGenerally yes although some uni are even more pedantic than that e.g you need to get over 70 in all courses as opposed to getting an average above 70%I think 70 is quite low, some people told me you have to reach at least 90..is not true?

in my school it worked as follows: there were 10 subjects + project. all subjects with assignments, marked 1 to 4, and with overall weight of ~40%. exams were marked 50 to 100 (100 was impossible to achieve as rightly noted before) - weight in total score ~60%. final scores normalised so that class average is 65%, with std of 10% - therefore only 15% of the class would get score of 75% (1-normsdist(z=1std)~15%). these 15 % (or those with above 75% score) were given distinction in this particular subject. something similar was applied for overall distinction award (i.e. top 15%).because of this scaling the scoring system is not comensurate with the u.s. one. however, i believe the system is quite logical.

QuoteI think 70 is quite low, some people told me you have to reach at least 90..is not true?No and I'm not sure what uni you're talking about...Getting 90 at my place was impossible....to get 90% you need to get everything correct at my place...(no-one is ever going to be awarded 100%)...A masters degree is not the same as a bachelor degree.....In a bachelor degree you can get over 90%.........in a master's degree this is not the case

Is gpa 3.5 on 4.0 scale about 70% in the UK?Any one has a rough transformation between gpa and percentage?