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Is uni right for me?
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Today I got an essay back which I had actually been looking forward to getting...It was on plant genetic engineering and I thought I had nailed it, I had read comments on her plan feedback page and amended everything...I got 63%. I come from a literature background so maybe I feel like I should have aced it? Am really jealous of my friends that have done better though they obviously deserved it...thing is, I thought I did too!
I'll put it down to experience, but my question is: has anyone ever felt like they weren't good enough for uni? Im beginning to think despite me doing well at A Level it means fuck all now.
I'll put it down to experience, but my question is: has anyone ever felt like they weren't good enough for uni? Im beginning to think despite me doing well at A Level it means fuck all now.
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Maybe the way you are working is the problem and not your capability. Have you ever considered taking classes for 'Better Essay Writing' or something like that? Maybe it's just a small problem which you can solve yourself.
Name the problem and several solutions. Also, name who is involved and what the consequences are when taking the preferred solution. Try it out - you never know!
Are your other grades much higher or something?
By the way in answer to the title of your post: don't be daft. You can't possibly contemplate leaving Uni 'cause you didn't get the mark you wanted!
I would be just as disappointed as she is atm. She said that she should have aced the test as it went so well. It has happened to me once - only once . It hurts you more than anything, getting lower than what your expectations were.
What's wrong with wanting high marks?
I've no intention of quitting, far from it, just felt a little dejected when I got the mark back
as far as i know:
40%+ = 3rd
50%+ = 2:2
60%+ = 2:1
70%+ = 1st
what year of uni are you in?
you're not from here though, are you? the grading system must be different over there.
63% might sound average and that she could've done better but it's a 2:1 which is a very good mark. you have to work hard to get that 63%, it's not like at secondary school.
You also seem to be unaware that Greenpeace is a multinational corporation with worse ethics than a tobaco company because they have less risk of prosecution.
They survive by pedling disasters, and if there isn't a real danger they invent
one. They did this with GM specifically to hit American businesses, as a
continuation of anti-globalisation campains. Unfortunately the not-for-profit
work designed for the third world was also stopped, and they pretend it never
existed.
He went on like that for ages lol. :eek2:
Tis ok, I'll learn!
But it down to experience, and try not to be too disheartened.
but then that makes me want to do my best and say 'haha i did it' to him.
At the end of the day, only you can decide if you are cut out for uni. The basis of one essay isn't a whole lot to go on when decided how your life might pan out though..
I haven't been to class since halloween. It's not like I'm not smart enough, it's just the fact I have lots of parties and usually end up going to bed when people are getting up.
Nope. I think i'm too good for uni. Can't help but think standards dropped for our generation.
If I studied and went to lectures i'd get 1A's for everything.
Unfortunately I don't.
If you come from a literature background, go for something different perhaps? Change to English? If you play to your strengths, you shouldn't find it too difficult...especially if you put the work in.
Something you'll find, I certainly have found it at uni is that sometimes you'll spend ages on an essay and then get a wanko mark and other times, you'll dash something off in an hour and get a first for it. I did that with an essay on Golden Age Spanish Theatre for my lecturer who's a world leader in that field and I got a first. That's just the way things go sometimes.
You need to stop seeing it as having 'gone wrong' and look at it more as something that needs polishing. Remember the uni game is still new to you, so to get a nice mid-2:1 from the word go is great, as expectations and demands of academic work are a lot different from school, and it sounds like with you it's clicked more or less straight away.
And remember, your marks are likely to vary a bit between tutors and different module. I think in my first year I got 57% for my first medieval essay but 65% for my first Cold War one.
But, yeah, going over the feedback sheet should be helpful so you know what that tutor looks for and what bees he has in his bonnet.
So I ask around a bit, one guy had about 10 lines of knowledge and then went on about the world war and firebrigades and got 91% and another lad has never worked in his life got 98% but I didnt get to read his essay. I felt like I had to dumb down or something because no one seem to have done what was required, so spoke to my dad and he told me some things.
Basically, the way they mark it is to their own standard so it isnt a set criteria as such, its whether the marker agrees with you which I think its fucked up. Just get to know how they want you to write and do that, dont let it knock your confidence, it got me down but no point, live and learn!
So far though I learned I have to chat shit to get the mark, where as knowledge, examples and experiences are useless even though they assess that...heh
Oh and i think 63% happens to be quite respectable As said, it's a 2:1, and it's also my best mark to date (i have only done 2 essays, but y'know i was quite pleased) Looking through some of the feedback sheets i got, it's funny how picky they can be, like when i said in a conclusion john donne was a genius who pioneered a genre, and i lost marks because apparently we all know that!
Well yeah anyway, don't kick yourself; oh and reading back it looks like you might be doing a damn interesting subject to.
Thanks everyone who replied appreciate it!