Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!

[Ilaariaa]

Ruby has a lot of annoying traits, but if she gets a first (which we're all 99% sure she has), there's no point of being bitter or asking how she got that. Not only has she used all resources (Blakeney, tutors, academic journals) to the maximum (as ethical or unethical as that may be), but we also honestly have no indication how good she is as an academic writer. We've seen her research and snippets but that doesn't paint the whole picture of what her work is like and at the end of the day, it's anonymously graded, so if she gets a first, she was ultimately deserving of one.

Congratulations Ruby. A first from a prestigious uni is something to brag about, perhaps just don't waste it with pretentious busywork and frolicking in make belief land now. Go and actually do something worthwhile because you're evidently capable.

Nah sorry I don't buy it. She's constantly making blunders about her own field of study, embarrassing grammar and spelling mistakes, misusing words just to sound smarter, her Goodreads review are complete gibberish, we've seen how bad she is at creative writing and poetry, every glimpse she's shown of her dissertation was a disaster, and she spent her degree doing everything in her power to avoid reading anything challenging.
If she was studying anything else I would give her the benefit of the doubt. You know, maybe she makes grammar mistakes and she's not good at writing and book reviews, but who knows how good she is at Engineering or Law or whatever. But she studied English Literature. There's no doubt in my mind she doesn't deserve a First

 

[ellonor]

how soon do we think soon will be? i cant take the suspense

 

[yerdasellsavon]

Nah sorry I don't buy it. She's constantly making blunders about her own field of study, embarrassing grammar and spelling mistakes, misusing words just to sound smarter, her Goodreads review are complete gibberish, we've seen how bad she is at creative writing and poetry, every glimpse she's shown of her dissertation was a disaster, and she spent her degree doing everything in her power to avoid reading anything challenging.
If she was studying anything else I would give her the benefit of the doubt. You know, maybe she makes grammar mistakes and she's not good at writing and book reviews, but who knows how good she is at Engineering or Law or whatever. But she studied English Literature. There's no doubt in my mind she doesn't deserve a First

I get what you’re saying entirely, but I think my point is that seeing as we haven’t seen the entirety of an essay and have her whole portfolio in front of us, it’s hard to say outright “she doesn’t deserve a first”.

Has she used everything to her advantage and probably not done it off her own back? Most likely. At the end of the day though, if it’s graded anonymously and it’s all of her work over a 2 year period, she ultimately deserves the grade she’s got.

Not like she’ll take advantage of it anyway, it’ll just be a talking point as she stays at home.

 

[Brightside]

how soon do we think soon will be? i cant take the suspense

As soon as possible I reckon. Praise from mummy and daddy isn't enough. She'll want more and she'll only get that from her adoring fans who will no doubt reply in their dozens once she uploads her reaction.

 

[emmer_moans]

Really doubting Axatar's English standards now.

Same here, the fact she has achieved lots of firsts on essays despite consistently showing us her appalling writing...hmmm...makes me wonder how the essays are marked.

 

[StatusWoe]

Just went on Goodreads to find Ruby's review of CMBYN and noticed these ratings. There are no reviews, so I don't know why they weren't given higher ratings.

'2 out of 5 stars. View wasn't as good as I was expecting.'

'2 out of 5 stars. Ocean was smaller than I hoped.'

But these have 5 stars:

Don't know what my point is here. I just found it interesting.

Also, reading her review of Dorian Gray...

''Lord Henry is a paradigmatic sophist and his epigrams are delightful''

 

[Ilaariaa]

Just went on Goodreads to find Ruby's review of CMBYN and noticed these ratings. There are no reviews, so I don't know why they weren't given higher ratings.

'2 out of 5 stars. View wasn't as good as I was expecting.'

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'2 out of 5 stars. Ocean was smaller than I hoped.'

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But these have 5 stars:

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Don't know what my point is here. I just found it interesting.

Also, reading her review of Dorian Gray...

''Lord Henry is a paradigmatic sophist and his epigrams are delightful''

A Room with a View is also set in Italy lol did she also bring that to Italy with her?
She exclusively chose "Eat, Pray, Love" style books written by foreign authors where foreign characters discover Italy and are smitten by the simple and cheerful nature of the locals

 

[babayaga0]

Laughing my ass off at how she's leaning towards the screen to be able to read. She's gonna get tired of this and go back to her laptop real soon.
I don't understand why she needs to put her nose up against the screen. Can't she just sit normally like she did with her laptop, which was even smaller than this screen? I'm confused

Her desk is just not big enough for a computer like that, even if she’s not putting her nose right up on the screen I don’t know how she can see the whole screen at once

 

[StatusWoe]

A Room with a View is also set in Italy lol did she also bring that to Italy with her?
She exclusively chose "Eat, Pray, Love" style books written by foreign authors where foreign characters discover Italy and are smitten by the simple and cheerful nature of the locals

Yes, she was really running with the Italy theme. I just found it interesting that she gave a lower rating to the 'classic' book and a higher one to the YA books (a genre she supposedly doesn't like).

 

[ellonor]

can she just post her results already? every time she uploads something on her story i wee myself a bit

 

[Griftwood]

can she just post her results already? every time she uploads something on her story i wee myself a bit

Calling it now - the smug smile was premature and while she probably ended up with a first overall, she needs time to spin the fact that she got less than a stellar grade on her diss.

 

[Auga]

Yes, not surprised. I know a lot of people thought her dissertation would be a disaster, and she was visibly struggling to centre it on a specific topic. The number of meetings with the supervisor wasn't a good sign. But she had piles of time to rescue it and make it more focused. She's clearly developed self-editing skills that she didn't have with Erimonster. Regardless of what one may think of a bookworm reaching for Sparknotes before reading the book, she's clearly mastered the format required to get firsts on her essays, and that ability should also carry over into the dissertation. It was a challenge for her so she may not get the "ground-breaking please publish now super high" first she was hoping for, but I'd be stunned if she got a low mark for it. Would expect a solid 2.1 at worst.

 

[Deeznutslol]

Here’s my prediction, I reckon she has got a first, but it’s a low first and because she’s so arrogant and was expecting it to be publishable, she’s mega disappointed and that’s why she hasn’t posted yet. Either way, I don’t think she will tell us the exact mark for it, unless it’s like insanely good.

 

[gossip_guy]

it’s all of her work over a 2 year period, she ultimately deserves the grade she’s got.

It's not her work though.

She's openly said that she gets Blakeney to read and summarise critical material for her, share her Notion notes for everything with Ruby, brief her on the reading before seminars and provide her with recap notes after lectures.

She's revealed that she skips the required reading in favour of a Sparknotes summary, and she's shown that she reverse-engineers an essay from the thoughts and opinions of other people, starting with an argument of someone else that she likes and working backward from there. That's not her work. That's other people's work mashed up and reworded into essays about books she never read. The only thing she worked hard at was avoiding doing work of her own.

Good for her if she found a way to cheat the system and get top marks for no original work of her own. But it's not her grade to be proud of.

That's Exeter's criteria for a first. I find it incredibly hard that Ruby showcased "independence of thought and originality" when she's never shown any evidence of that in 7 years of content.

And then the lower end of the scale, which lines up much more with the standard of language and writing we see regularly from Ruby.

Absolutely every piece of writing we've seen from her, from the essay samples to the poetry, from the book which she charges money for to her everyday conversations and professional business copy are riddled with errors on every level and I don't think she's ever offered up an original, coherent thought containing anything resembling intelligence or insight. I find it incredibly hard to believe that she was keeping a stash of exceptional talent in reserve just for her private essays.

You're right though, without seeing her final essay product or knowing what the hell the grading tutors saw, there's no way to tell why there's such a huge disparity between everything we've ever seen from Ruby and the grades she's been getting. They likely don't watch her content, so didn't see her outing herself as relying on every dodgy shortcut possible to avoid doing her own work, or they might've had more questions for her. But it's clear she relied almost entirely on the work of others to get there, she's all but said as much herself. If the criteria for a top mark is independent and original work, then she didn't earn those grades.

Calling it now - the smug smile was premature and while she probably ended up with a first overall, she needs time to spin the fact that she got less than a stellar grade on her diss.

I kinda doubt she's going to show her full grade breakdown unfortunately, but I'd fully expect First overall and low grades (or lower than the Firsts that Ruby thought she was entitled to) for her dissertation and creative writing project.

 

[ellonor]

Here’s my prediction, I reckon she has got a first, but it’s a low first and because she’s so arrogant and was expecting it to be publishable, she’s mega disappointed and that’s why she hasn’t posted yet. Either way, I don’t think she will tell us the exact mark for it, unless it’s like insanely good.

I did wonder if she would post her transcript (the breakdown of her grades for all modules) or if she'd just tell us her overall mark.

 

[Deeznutslol]

I did wonder if she would post her transcript (the breakdown of her grades for all modules) or if she'd just tell us her overall mark.

Honestly, I doubt she’ll even say the overall mark. She’ll prob just say she got a 1st

 

[ellonor]

It's not her work though.

She's openly said that she gets Blakeney to read and summarise critical material for her, share her Notion notes for everything with Ruby, brief her on the reading before seminars and provide her with recap notes after lectures.

She's revealed that she skips the required reading in favour of a Sparknotes summary, and she's shown that she reverse-engineers an essay from the thoughts and opinions of other people, starting with an argument of someone else that she likes and working backward from there. That's not her work. That's other people's work mashed up and reworded into essays about books she never read. The only thing she worked hard at was avoiding doing work of her own.

Good for her if she found a way to cheat the system and get top marks for no original work of her own. But it's not her grade to be proud of.

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That's Exeter's criteria for a first. I find it incredibly hard that Ruby showcased "independence of thought and originality" when she's never shown any evidence of that in 7 years of content.

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And then the lower end of the scale, which lines up much more with the standard of language and writing we see regularly from Ruby.

Absolutely every piece of writing we've seen from her, from the essay samples to the poetry, from the book which she charges money for to her everyday conversations and professional business copy are riddled with errors on every level and I don't think she's ever offered up an original, coherent thought containing anything resembling intelligence or insight. I find it incredibly hard to believe that she was keeping a stash of exceptional talent in reserve just for her private essays.

You're right though, without seeing her final essay product or knowing what the hell the grading tutors saw, there's no way to tell why there's such a huge disparity between everything we've ever seen from Ruby and the grades she's been getting. They likely don't watch her content, so didn't see her outing herself as relying on every dodgy shortcut possible to avoid doing her own work, or they might've had more questions for her. But it's clear she relied almost entirely on the work of others to get there, she's all but said as much herself. If the criteria for a top mark is independent and original work, then she didn't earn those grades.



I kinda doubt she's going to show her full grade breakdown unfortunately, but I'd fully expect First overall and low grades (or lower than the Firsts that Ruby thought she was entitled to) for her dissertation and creative writing project.

some unis will round up any grades from 69.5% to a first, im not sure if Exeter are the same

 

[gossip_guy]

some unis will round up any grades from 69.5% to a first, im not sure if Exeter are the same

I know they're one of the universities who've received a lot of accusations of grade inflation, too - 40% of their students somehow get Firsts now and it gets higher every year. That could well be more students putting in hard work year on year, but given what we've seen of Ruby, it's increasingly easy to believe.

 

[ellonor]

I know they're one of the universities who've received a lot of accusations of grade inflation, too - 40% of their students somehow get Firsts now and it gets higher every year. That could well be more students putting in hard work year on year, but given what we've seen of Ruby, it's increasingly easy to believe.

40% of students with firsts is an astronomical number. I know they are a somewhat prestigious university given their Russel Group status so attract academically gifted students but over 1/3 of students graduate with a first... something is definitely not right there!

 

[Deeznutslol]

Hmm getting a bit weird that she hasn’t posted now tbf