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!).

[aklami]

Hi everhopeful,

Here at Barts and The London, the merits/distinctions are based on the individual years exams performance rather than the ranking within your cohort. As far as I know, you can get distinction in medical sciences (if you get merits in years 1 & 2), distinction in clinical sciences (merits in years 3 & 4), and distinction in clinical practice (merit in year 5). On average, merits are awarded for 70%+ score but there may small variations between years. These distinctions are University of London level (don't know if it will be displayed in the certificate??), the merits are at college level so it will be displayed on the marks transcript.

Hope this helps.
Best wishes,

Ali

[gimperial99]

What is the fail rate like at Barts? Rumour has it, that it is impossible to fail.

[dsn]

Originally Posted by Diya

We get our on the intranet with an email sent to notify you when they're posted up. We get the mark, a grade, where u rank in the whole year (a number) and quartiles now for all exams and end of yr module summaries. It can get a little confusing cos there are so many numbers.

For In Course Assessments (which are 20% of examined module) and after January exams (which are 30% of examined module) we get

e.g. Cardiovascular System ICA mark (X% , Quartile X)

After May exams you get this for all papers taken (i.e. ICA, Jan/ May MCQs (depending what term the module was taught), Jan/ May anatomy EMQ (if there are some), May SAQ) for each module PLUS you get your rank for each of these components (but EMQ combined with MCQ) and overall for the module. e.g. what you'd see at the end of the year (some very not stunning results)

IRM ICA Mark - (60, Ranked 234, Quartile 3)
IRM May MCQ - 75
IRM May EMQ (Anatomy) - 46
IRM Overall May MCQ Mark - (65, Ranked 81, Quartile 1)
IRM May SAQ Mark - (50, Ranked 204, Quartile 3)
IRM Final Module Mark - (57, P, Ranked 150, Quartile 2)

In theory it's supposed to be posted on WebCT/ blackboard, but quite a few times they ended up emailing it because WebCT had crashed or whatever.