Ruby Granger #28 What a depacle!

[Welshgal]

Love how all the Brits (I assume) get super defensive as soon as someone says something negative.
From what my friends told me who did study abroad it seems true that it is ridiculously easy to get good grades in the UK (they did business, English, law and economics).

 

[punkfem]

More like "doing some contortionist bodychecking at the service station"

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kind of petty but i really dislike those shoes

 

[Ilaariaa]

It takes over 55% to get the worst passing grade and over 90% to get the top grade in my country. These threads have really disillusioned me about the prestigious education in UK.

That and Holly - the Cambridge biology graduate, looking up female anatomy diagrams online to find were her tina is so she can insert her menstrual cup.

It's just the label that's different
The quality of the work is the same for a 70% in UK and a 90% in your country and a 30 in my country. The grade you get is just a different number because the scale is different. In my country uni grades go from 18 (barely passing) to 30L (excellent work). Just because the number 30 < 90 it doesn't mean our grade equals 30% in your country lol

Edit: the criteria to get a top grade may be different between uni systems and some may be more strict than others, but you can't say the UK uni system is easier because their top grade is 70% while in your country it is 90%, because the whole scale has different labels. A 70% is a 70% in the UK scale, not in your country's scale.

 

[CatCafe234]

Love how all the Brits (I assume) get super defensive as soon as someone says something negative.
From what my friends told me who did study abroad it seems true that it is ridiculously easy to get good grades in the UK (they did business, English, law and economics).

My partner studied in the US for a while and said the same about an undergrad degree in a College there - as long as you managed the volume (i.e lots of quizzes, test and small pieces of work, with not a lot of analysis expected or required) then you could get good grades much more easily there than in the UK. Conversely, one of my friends at uni was American. They were taking a post-grad degree and they struggled hugely with the UK system because they’d never been expected to provide a lot of analysis. I don’t think you can really compare systems as they’re reflective of so much more than just how a grade is calculated.

 

[The Favourite]

I don't keep up with the Ruby lore often because she's so tragic I can't actually stand it. Genuinely mind boggling how naive she must be to not understand how transparent she is. She very obviously does not read much beyond YA fiction. I've just watched her "reading five books in a day" video and she admitted she had never read anything by Virginia Woolf, nor did she have any prior knowledge of A Room of One's Own before skimming reading it. And this girl has just obtained a degree in english lit. Sorry but what on earth are they teaching at uni in the UK?

 

[gisellejoly]

I don't keep up with the Ruby lore often because she's so tragic I can't actually stand it. Genuinely mind boggling how naive she must be to not understand how transparent she is. She very obviously does not read much beyond YA fiction. I've just watched her "reading five books in a day" video and she admitted she had never read anything by Virginia Woolf, nor did she have any prior knowledge of A Room of One's Own before skimming reading it. And this girl has just obtained a degree in english lit. Sorry but what on earth are they teaching at uni in the UK?

I think Ruby could have used her time at university to broaden her horizons but if I remember correctly it seems like every year she stuck to her narrow areas of 'interest' (albeit fake and superficial interest). I am sure Exeter offers classes that teach Virginia Woolf but Ruby tended to stick to courses about Shakespeare and Dickens, and obvs anything to do with the Victorians since she was so obsessed with everything victorian childhood and etiquette for a couple of years I'm sure other students on her course read much more widely than she did.

 

[ellonor]

This. To a certain extent, over 70% in the UK is more-or-less similar to 100% in some other countries. When I went to uni (admittedly this was a while ago) we were literally told that you would have to work hard to get over 70% and that it was practically impossible to get over 80% in essay-based subjects unless you’d written something that could almost be taken and published as is. It’s always a bit of a shock for students coming to uni from school and who have been used to getting high numerical grades in their A-Levels to suddenly find themselves struggling to get over 60%, and also for them to see that 60% plus is actually a good mark.

I think it does differ across subject areas a bit though as when I did a stats module I got over 90% because it was all a bit more binary, but the highest mark I ever got in an essay was 86%, and that was a timed essay under exam conditions so I think the higher marking reflected that the expectations were possibly a bit lower! I don’t say that to boast as it’s not and never has been at all relevant, but just to illustrate that I think in some more STEM-like subjects (assuming an aptitude!) it’s possibly easier to get higher marks than in the arts and humanities. Possibly …

As somebody who did a STEM degree (biomed) our marking criteria were very black and white, as in you had to get eg. a diagnosis explicitly right to even be awarded any marks, and you'd get the best marks for sound justification/critical analysis, which is a skill that takes a bit of trial and error to get bang on but once you've nailed it, you can apply it to any essay and are pretty much guaranteed a first. I think in degrees like English Lit you don't really have a right or wrong answer to the essay question, and your marks are based on your own interpretation/reasoning? At least that's the vibe I got from when I used to watch Vee Kativhu's essay crisis videos but I could be completely wrong (i know she didnt study english lit but theyre much a likeness imo).

 

[yerdasellsavon]

These threads have really disillusioned me about the prestigious education in UK.

I don’t know if you’re being deliberately obtuse or just unaware, but you’re comparing two completely distinct education systems.

I’ve just completed a year abroad in Canada and there, a 70% is seen as a B and average. Here, if you get 70%, it’s a first. It’s why when you get equivalent grades so I can get a degree here, getting a 70% in Canada doesn’t mean I get a 70% here. It’s just a different way of doing things.

90% in Canada is achievable say. In the UK, getting that on something like English would mean it’s an essay of publishable academic standards.

 

[xoxoxo13]

her pretentious post about The Binding

 

[blahblahblah04]

I don’t pipe up much on here but I felt I needed to add that even on exams, some unis cap their exam marks at 80 (the student needs to get 100% on the exam to get an 80, which in the UK grading system can be taken as an 80/100 and not 80 as a raw mark since 0-100 is the scale used). One of my lecturers told me this about a previous university that they’d worked at. Sorry if this doesn’t make sense!

 

[space.cat]

Love how all the Brits (I assume) get super defensive as soon as someone says something negative.
From what my friends told me who did study abroad it seems true that it is ridiculously easy to get good grades in the UK (they did business, English, law and economics).

They would rather choose to believe that Ruby is some kind of genius despite all evidence to the contrary than accept that their grades are simply easier to get than they like to pretend they are.

 

[The Favourite]

I think Ruby could have used her time at university to broaden her horizons but if I remember correctly it seems like every year she stuck to her narrow areas of 'interest' (albeit fake and superficial interest). I am sure Exeter offers classes that teach Virginia Woolf but Ruby tended to stick to courses about Shakespeare and Dickens, and obvs anything to do with the Victorians since she was so obsessed with everything victorian childhood and etiquette for a couple of years I'm sure other students on her course read much more widely than she did.

Tragic. She is so repressed. It's as though she just looks at lists of essential classics curated by middle aged white men who are completely out of touch and she tries to create this persona of someone who has read each and every single one. It's so cringe.

I'm not even that much of a literature enthusiast I just would have assumed Virginia Woolf would be part of a lit 101 class. She mentions Sylvia Plath often, who is going to tell her Plath has a history of anti semitism as she often compared her pain to that of the Holocaust, and her writing alludes to white supremacy. Not to mention the archetype of the woman as a vessel for pain is misogynistic. I almost pity Ruby except that it’s so easy to find good and varied reading lists on, like, goodreads alone, she has every opportunity to widen her scope a bit, but she is just an insufferable conservative bore

 

[Ilaariaa]

They would rather choose to believe that Ruby is some kind of genius despite all evidence to the contrary than accept that their grades are simply easier to get than they like to pretend they are.

Let us know when you're done trolling the thread lol

 

[Deeznutslol]

They would rather choose to believe that Ruby is some kind of genius despite all evidence to the contrary than accept that their grades are simply easier to get than they like to pretend they are.

Who tf is thinking that Ruby a genius here? She literally gets called an idiot daily on this thread .

 

[rubysdeadfly]

Can we just agree different countries having different ways of grading and move on pls nobody thinks Ruby is a genius

 

[rubella]

Ruby stop prancing around Brighton making undeclared bird & bland ads and start filming a results reaction video with tears

 

[StatusWoe]

I think in degrees like English Lit you don't really have a right or wrong answer to the essay question, and your marks are based on your own interpretation/reasoning?

It's true that there's not really a right or wrong answer, but you definitely need to refer to the text to support your analysis. You could basically say that, in English, the conclusion of your essay is less important than the strength of your argument.

”dedicated” coconut in round shape, how very unique

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Got to love the professionalism of coconut. So dedicated! THAT IS THEIR IDENTITY.

 

[gossip_guy]

More like "doing some contortionist bodychecking at the service station"

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WRITER ROOBEE who got a First for her English Lit degree doesn't understand how POV works. This does help explain why the main character of her new book has 360 degree X-ray vision, can see through solid objects and can observe things happening behind her without turning her head.

Rubert, "POV" is your literal point of view. Quick biology recap: Your eyes are located inside your head. If this is your POV, how the duck are you gonna be seeing yourself from 6 feet away performing some kind of contorted summoning ritual? Astral projection? The demon possessing your body and turning it into weird pretzel has expelled your consciousness and spat it out on the roadside? Inquiring minds want to know.

 

[jiggy_girl]

Love how all the Brits (I assume) get super defensive as soon as someone says something negative.
From what my friends told me who did study abroad it seems true that it is ridiculously easy to get good grades in the UK (they did business, English, law and economics).

It definitely is NOT ridiculously easy. I just finished law at Exeter, I was expecting to, honestly, fail despite the effort I'd put in, because of mental health issues. I've worked ridiculously hard this year and I got a grade that reflects that hard work. Just because you want to criticise Ruby, doesn't mean you can do it in a way that comments on everyone else on this thread

 

[Griftwood]

Is it ”soon” yet?