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Monthly Archives: December 2006
What marks are needed for a first class degree or a 2:1
The marks required for different classifications of degree vary between universities, but are typically as follows: 40% or above = 3rd 50% or above = 2:2 60% or above = 2:1 70% or above = 1st Some universities require a … Continue reading
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Deadline Extensions on a Degree Course
It is possible to get extensions to deadlines for your degree work if you have a genuine reason. Degree students applying for extensions due to a last minute crisis are usually viewed with suspicion. Give tutors as much notice as … Continue reading
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Save Money on Books for your Degree Course
Use the university library, and get into the habit of renewing books ever week to avoid fines! Find out if your university has a scheme for students to re-sell old books. If so use this to buy books and sell … Continue reading
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Revision Tips for your Degree Course
If you want to achieve a first class degree it is essential to become as effective as possible in terms of revision. I once read that the hardest part of getting started is getting started, with that in mind consider … Continue reading
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Save Money on your Degree Course, Try Linux
Linux is a free operating system, a cost free alternative to Microsoft Windows. It also offers free applications, providing cost free alternatives to Microsoft Office, Macromedia Dreamweaver, Adobe Photoshop etc, a useful product for any hard up student! Ubuntu is … Continue reading
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A Gmail Account can help with your degree course
Gmail (Google Mail) is the best free web based mail client around. During my degree I found it very reliable. It has a calendar linked to it which you can use to plan your degree work, plotting assignment deadlines etc. … Continue reading
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External Hard Drives can backup all of your degree work
USB disks are a useful way of carrying your degree work with you and transferring it between different machines, but they are easily lost, damaged and do not have enough storage for full backup and archiving of all your degree … Continue reading
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Buy a USB Flash Disk for your degree
When I started my degree, not many people had these but today I think the majority of Students use them. My first 128 MB drive cost £25, and a 1 GB drive would have cost well over £100. A year … Continue reading
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A Cheap WiFi Card may help with your degree
Many Universities (bars and cafés too) have WiFi access points which can be of great value to degree students on the move! Most laptops now have wireless functionality built into them, but if yours does not then you would be … Continue reading
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Get into a “Flow” if you want a First Class Degree
Getting into a flow, or into the “zone” as some people describe it is vitally important if you want to achieve a first class degree. What myself and others are describing is state of mind, of sorts, where every thing … Continue reading
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