I am in my first year of university, studying Business Managmet(Exchange). Thank God i have found this website. I really want to get First class Degree.

I have just enrolled, this week, so i am not late in getting, the advice i need.

i will definitely tell other people of this site.

keep up the excellent, wonderful work.

This is a great website! Keep it up!

I’ve just graduated with a First Class (Hons) at Cardiff University. I nearly failed my first year, as I was quite homeskick, and found it difficult to adjust to the university environment. I was surrounded by public school know-it-alls, and just didn’t feel like I fitted in.

However, I realised that it was (probably) my one chance at university, and I wanted to achieve the highest results possible. I looked at the reading lists, and looked for similar literature. I found that I demonstrated an advanced knowledge compared to fellow students in seminars. As a result, I became more confident in my ability, and began to outshine the so-called public school elite. Eventually, I realised that it was all bravado, and they were essentially spewing out flawed arguments in seminars, which I began to challenge.

In my last few weeks at university, I began to have nightmares about my dissertation and final essays (a tad extreme, I know). Consequently, I spent all my time in the computer room and library, pefecting my work. Although this helped push my marks up, I wouldn’t recommend it, as I didn’t get much sleeep and became quite hostile towards my friends. Everything is okay now though.

I would just advise people to set goals and stick to them, read around your set reading lists and visualise you picking up that First Class Honours. I felt amazing when I achieved it, and so did my parents, who helped me so much during university. Remember, this is probably your one chance at university, so aim high.

I’m starting my degree this coming September… I was originally accepted at a ‘prestigious’ university, but then decided to go through Clearing to do a different course. There were less options, but I got accepted onto a course I really, really like the look of, but is at a significantly ‘less respected’ university.

I’m extremely determined to get a first class degree so that I won’t just be viewed as someone who went to a “doss university” by potential employers – especially since the job market is so tough at the moment.

Again, thank you for this helpful website!

I could write a whole dissertation on my academic journey, but I’m not going to now. My advice:

- Understand the problem
- Devise a solution
- Implement the solution

You should then check your feedback for coursework and verify whether the decisions made were good ones. Hopefully they were, but improvements can always be made. Consider feedback when executing future work.

People in glasshouses shouldn’t throw stones.

I had the right attitude. I never missed an opportunity to learn from others and made full use of every resource put before me.

I scrutinised every module guide and continually referred back to them, so I knew I was focusing on the areas that would get the marks. During the whole course not one module listed grammer in the marking criteria, so whilst there was a little “red pen” on some of my returned assignments I always got high marks.

I out performed people who were brigher than me, knew the subject better than me and whose grammer was better than mine.