Academic types- help!

I got my exam results today but I don't understand them

I was due to receive them by post this morning but nothing came.  My "record of agreed results" has now been posted on the university website.

On it, it lists my marks (71, 73, 72).  According to the course handbook, anything over 70 is a distinction- yay!

However, under the "Result" column of the "record of agreed results" doc, it says "P" against each section, presumably for "pass".

Does this mean that I've just got a pass and that the marks therefore don't represent percentages (which is possible) or is such a document likely to list all passes (normal, with commendation, with distinction) simpy as "P"?  If the former it's really misleading but I just don;t know how such things work.  I've called the course administrator but there's no answer. 

There's no key given to the record of agreed results.

Gargh! 

Gosh, I can't imagine that the numbers would represent anything other than %, surely?  So I would guess that you have got a distinction in all (which, to be honest, is what I would guess you had done regardless ).

Well done!

What usually happens is that all your marks are taken to a Board of Examiners and they review them and declare whether you've passed or failed. those numbers would be percentages, but your transcript will show "pass" or "fail". Does that help?

Yep they have been ratified etc.  So would it just say "pass" or "fail" even if I passed with distinction or commedation?

Thanks both of you  

I don't know.  But I am finding it really amusing that you are taking a vey clever exam, getting distinction, and yet are unable to understand the results sheet

wowsers! they are fabulous marks. and agree with the others, looks like you've passed with distinction.

whether they should reconsider on the basis you don't understand the results is another matter

seriously, well done! you should be very pleased with yourself, you absolutely deserve it

when I used to do this (PG management), marks with distinction would say D - for distinction obviously. However, are those marks for just one module, or for more than one? At my uni it was an average of all marks equaling more than 70% would give you a distinction, not just one mark in itself, if that makes sense?

My uni degree result sheet showed my marks, not percentages.

Melancholie:

My uni degree result sheet showed my marks, not percentages.

how do you mean? a 59 for instance, would be 59%....?

our marks wouldn't specify the class of each module, just whether it was a pass/fail (or various other must re-sit it options). So it looks like a healthy distinction to me. Well done!

Actually thats a point, often at module level its only pass/fail, and distincions aren't shown until you get your final mark.

Thanks everyone.  I suppose I won't know for sure until I get my proper letter (tomorrow, hopefully).

Thanks for the votes of confidence.  I'm going to feel like a right twat if I've only scraped through   

AnnaBanana:

Melancholie:

My uni degree result sheet showed my marks, not percentages.

how do you mean? a 59 for instance, would be 59%....?

Each unit was out of 16. My final results sheet showed each unit and a mark out of 16 for that unit. No percentages.

Well, based on your marks you've definitely passed at a level of distinction.  I seem to remember that on my uni transcript I've got P's next to all my marks which denotes I've passed, and doesn't reflect the level of which I'd passed.  The final grade did that.

Well unless each paper was worth more than 100 marks they look like pretty fab results to me either way