exam results

[rjm]

It varies from med school to med school. Southampton never had such a thing as merit. You could get distinction in BM Primary, BM intermediate or BM Final, which I think was something like an average >70%, although cant remember exactly, it may have been more complicated that that! Then you could get your degree with Honours, again cant remember exactly how worked out but it might have been something like distinction in finals + distinctin in primary or intermediates. Or they may have just made it up as they went along!!!

[sefkhet]

Glasgow has got honours and commendation, which they claim has something to do with getting an aggregate result across the five years of at least an A (for honours, which works out at ~90%) or a B (for commendation, which works out at ~80%), but, like rjm, I suspect they might make it up as they go along!

[Diya]

In our uni, there are honours points (for >70% and depends on a viva I think) to collect as u go along and if u get a certain number, u graduate with honours (distinction)

[Spencer Wells]

We get our results by email and simultaneously they go up on a notice board.

We have medical sciences merit (those in the 80-89th centile) and distinction (top 10%) for aggregate centile over the first 2 years. In clinical years, you need 3 merits (top 10%) out of a possible 4 for distinction in clinical science, and then the top 10% in finals get distinction in clinical practice and those in the 80-89th centile merit in clinical practice.

[sparky21]

Our results go up on a board outside the medical school office and simultaneously on the intranet system. Both are anonymous - results are printed with student number and exam number. In the final year we were told what award we recieved (if any) and degree classification - Honours, Commendation or Pass.

[cakelover]

At Bristol in the clinical years its something like the top 5% of the year get distinction, next 10% get merit, the rest pass, and the unlucky few fail. We do not get any feedback about how we perform in each question, which would be nice though, like the above person was saying about saying resp is your weakest, psycho strongest etc etc. To get an honours degree on the standard 5 year course you need 8 merits throughout the entire 5 years (a distinction counts as two merits), plus a high average mark for all SSC/SSMs and NO fails at any time. It can be quite tough. All results are anonymous.

[jamiewallis]

At GKT, it's overly complicated. The gist I think is this: you achieve a pre-clinical distinction if you're top 15% in year 1 (merit) PLUS top 15% in year 2 (merit). You get a clinical distinction if you're top 15% in year 3 (merit) PLUS top 10% in year 4 (merit). In year 5, I think you get a distinction for clincal practice if you are in the top 10% of the year (but you must have had at least 2 merits in other other 4 years as well). We also have a distinction for SSMs.. I think you are looking at having merits (70+%) in most of the SSMs you've done over the 5 years (12 in total?? We've done so many I've lost count!).