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Originally posted by Vaskez:
Well it means different things in different places, but it's all about your type of degree. For example, on my course, everyone who graduated with more than just a "pass" i.e. above 40% average grade, got an honours degree, because it was a difficult enough and adequate length course. If you got 35-40% you just got a pass and no honours and if you got less than 35% you get no degree.
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Yeah. At our uni honours constitutes an entire additional year of study. Bachelor degrees entail three years of study, and if the student's grades are good enough, they may be offered to study an additional, more intensive fourth-year of 'honours' papers, which includes writing a 20,000 word research dissertation. The student's 'class' of honours depends on their grade average for their fourth honours year. 80%+ is first class, 65%-79% is second class, and 50%-64% is 'provisional'. Anything below 50% is a fail.
Aelia : You don't have to pay to do a PhD? Sweet! I may well have to emigrate then [img]smile.gif[/img] I only have to live in OZ for 2 years off and on in order to obtain citizenship as per our ANZAC buddy-status, and I'm seriously considering moving to Melbourne once I start getting that 'settle down' feeling [img]smile.gif[/img] Nice work on getting into the PhD. I could imagine you as a fully-fledged lecturer/professor, well, moreso than I could with Vaskez anyway [img]tongue.gif[/img] you'd do very well [img]smile.gif[/img] (I could just imagine Vaskez marking his student's papers: "what the hell is this crap you're giving me? You kids are so damn STUPID! Why do I even BOTHER???"
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