40% becomes the new 34%

Changes in the pass mark for students registered under the NEW 2011-12 regulations.

This year we have introduced New Regulations. These regulations are for some new students only. New students studying in a teaching institution should find out urgently whether they have been registered on the old or the new regulations. New Students not studying in a teaching institution will be automatically registered under the new regulations (all those registered since 1st January 2011). For these students there have been significant changes to the regulations, including the pass mark and the way that students can process through the degree.

Transfer to the new regulations is not be possible for students on the old regulations.

Please note: if you are a continuing student or have registered under the OLD regulations in 2011-12, this will not immediately apply to you.

To bring the EMFSS programmes into line with the LSE, we have adopted a change in the pass mark from 34% to 40% from summer 2012.  

This change will bring our programmes into line with the majority of other UK undergraduate awards which operate with a 40% pass mark.  This means there will no longer be a Pass category in the marking schemes for our degree course and all students will be required to achieve a ‘pass’ at the honours level of 40.  The rationale for this change is the desire to encourage students to achieve honours standards in their examinations, as they do at the LSE.  The previous Pass category will only be available for those few students who, at classification stage, fail two courses and would have otherwise been awarded a third class honours degree.

Given this is a major change to the programme regulations for existing students, the current 34% pass mark will continue until summer 2016.  By this point students need to have either graduated or completed their programme of study, or will be automatically transferred to the new regulations and continue on the 40% pass mark.

All Honours class boundaries remain unaltered, as illustrated in the single Marking Scheme published in the new regulations.

Our advice to all students in working towards their examinations is to know your subject, work hard and aim high!

John Ferrá

Head of the LSE Office for the University of London International Programmes.

 

 

 

September 2011 – Regulations for the coming year

Dear Students,

Welcome to all students for the coming academic year. Please read the information below very carefully.

For all students

This year we have introduced some changes to the course codes, in order to more accurately describe the subject area and level of the course.

The course codes can be understood as, for example, EC1002

Subject designator:	EC	indicates that this is an Economics course
Level designator:	1	indicates that this is a 100 course
Course designator:	002	indicates the unique course number.  (These remain the same as in previous years, although they are all now in three digit format).

Students will notice that the subject guides have different covers and are coloured to indicate whether the course is a 100 course (pink),  200 course (green) or 300 course (white).

In most cases there have been minor changes to the learning outcomes, for both courses and chapters within the subject guides. However, these are descriptive changes, and the content and approach remain the same.

IMPORTANT

This year we have introduced New Regulations. These regulations are for some new students only. New students studying in a teaching institution should find out urgently whether they have been registered on the old or the new regulations. New Students not studying in a teaching institution will be automatically registered under the new regulations (all those registered since 1st January 2011). For these students there have been significant changes to the regulations, including the pass mark and the way that students can process through the degree.

Students who have registered in previous years or who have been registered this year by their teaching institution on the old regulations will not be affected by the changes in the new regulations in any way.

Transfer to the new regulations will not be possible for students on the old regulations.

Good luck with your studies this year.

Very best wishes,

LSE Office for the University of London International Programmes