Anyone know anything about degrees?

eyup, right got my results today (cos i had a resit) and ive passed my degree. but cos i failed the resit and im not living there anymore theyve put it through as pass degree, meaning ive got my BSc but not honours or classification ie 2:2 etc. theyve said i can go back and resit the full module over the next year if a REALLY want but they dont see a point since i have my degree. does anyone have any suggestions of what to do? do i go back for a classification or isnt it worth it? ive already got a job as a web designer which is doing what i did my degree in but when ive left that job what will employers think when it says BSc and not BSc (hons) 2:2 or whatever?
Please hepl, ive got until the end of the week to decide!

 

It's really upto to you.

But many employers do recruit on degree classification. (2:1) (2:2) etc.

I know mine did?

 

Depends what it's in, but once you have a degree, the biggest stumbling block you will come up against, is not the grade you got, but what experience you have. I'd concentrate on getting some kind of experience in your chosen profession - at whatever level you can. Good luck

 

I'm in exactly the same situation Harps... I'd resit if I were you... you don't have to go to the lectures I don't think, just go and do the exam.

From the advice I've had, I'd get the honours.

 

A pass is the most basic isnt it? However, I would say that experience you gain from the job you already have will be very advantageous in the future. Your lucky! Ive got a 2:1 BSc Hons degree in web design and a year later I'm still looking for a job in the field.

 

i hit on really lucky! sorry mate! might have a word with admin at work and see what they think. the thing is, i failed one and appealed against another so if i resit ive gotta go for em both! exam and assignment too. ya think i can get my degree as it is and upgrade in the next couple of years if i need to? dunno if thats possible.

 

oh and yeah it is the most basic

 

know what ya mean. just had to decide. dont want to go back cos ive had loads of problems as it is but dont want to have wasted 3 years if what ive got isnt going to get me a job when ive finished where i am. hard choice!

 

I'd stick with the pass and concentrate on getting suitable and paid work experience. In a few years all an employer will care about is what eperience you have and what you can bring to their company.

Once you've got your first job (which you appear to have done) your degree has played its part.

If you go for the honours an employer will work out from your CV that you had to resit and will want to know what went wrong.

Better just to stick with the work and tell everyone you were hardly sobber at Uni and can't remember much. Blame it on booze rather than being a duffer at exams.

I don't want to insult you or anything, but would you pass second time around ? You may waste a year of boredom and find it difficult to motivate yourself when you are outside the social group of the rest of the year and still not achieve your aims.

If you are good at what you do then the experience you gain in one years work will be worth far more then an 'hons' after the degree. I'd be lying if I said no one will look for this, but not everyone and all employers will want to know what you can do. In five years things will have moved on so much that most of your degree technical skills will be obsolete. Look at all those who studied IT ten years ago. They're not still working with PC DOS or Win 3.1 are they ?

Hope this helps.

 

From the other side

Last week we changed the rules here so if you fail your dissertation, you can only ever get a pass degree, even if you resit.
For many things a pass degree is not worth the paper its written on. So I would recommend resitting.

However, my brother in law has a pass degree and never had any problem finding jobs and earning 4 x what I do with a PhD! plus he retired mid 40s! But now every Tom, Dick & Harry have degrees.

 

Degrees

Can tell you if things are hot, warm or cold!

 

I was in work for ten years post Uni

Nobody asked me what degree I had at any of my interviews, until last year when I went for three and they all asked me. Mind you it was more of an - out of interest at the end because I didn't put the classification on my CV (I got a 3rd

If you can study and take the exam without much cost I'd be tempted to give it a go ... if you think you can get a 2:2 or above. Otherwise have a suitable bit of patter ready for interviews if people ask you - don't go overboard cos it looks defensive, just have a decent reason.

 

and cutting pies

 

Bagpuss,
I didn't know what I wanted to do at university - first year I did a combined course made up of 1/3 maths, 1/3 electronics and 1/3 computing. I hated computing so 2nd year I did 1/2 maths and 1/2 electronics. End of 2nd year I despised electronics so much I considered leaving, but in the end I stayed on and did a 100% maths course in year 3 but I had not built up enough maths credits over the 3 years to qualify for an honours degeree. The long and short of it is I left University with a pass degree in Mathematics.

I've managed to get by OK. I started with a big telephone company on their graduate scheme and I was very aware that I was the thickest of the lot in that I was surrounded by all these bods with 1st class and upper 2nd class science degrees and I felt like a fraud. That is until I got to know them a little better. A good degree might get you through the door but really it's all down to you and what you are like. Be creative, I got on the graduate scheme with an ordinary degree because I was creative on my application, I knew my degree wouldn't sell me so I came up with other ideas and I later found out I was chosen because my CV stood out.

My advice would be don't spend another year trying to improve your degree. In a few years hopefully it will be irrelevant because you will have proved yourself in other ways. Have faith in yourself to sell your talents, channel your energies into finding the right career, be creative, use your personality and don't rely on that piece of paper to get you places.

 

There's 90 in a right angle.

And 180 internally in a triangle.

That's it I'm afraid. Sorry.

 

It's people like you etc etc

 

thats right

 

agree