What Do I Need for a 2:1?
Average needed in the years left
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Enter an average for one year that counts.
- Banked so far
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- Best class still possible
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Every class, and what it now needs
| Class | Weighted mark | Needed in the years left |
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- The years entered carry 0 of the 0 weight units in this scheme, at 0%.
- needs 0% overall, which is 0 weighted points against the 0 banked.
- The 0 units left supply the rest, so they need 0%.
Year by year
| Year | Average | Weight | Share |
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How to work out the mark you need for a 2:1
Multiply the target by the weight of the whole degree, subtract the weighted points already banked, then divide what is left by the weight of the years still to come.
Take a King's College London degree, weighted 0:2:3 across the three years, with year 2 marked at 54% and the final year to sit. A 2:1 needs 60% overall, which is 300 weighted points. Year 2 has banked 108 of them, so the final year has to supply 192 across the 3 units it carries, which is 64%.
Year 2 came in under the target, so the final year has to cover that gap as well as clear the line, which puts the figure above the 60% boundary rather than on it. Bank 64% in year 2 instead and the final year needs 57.33%. A year average is the credit weighted mean of that year's modules, which the year average calculator works out, and the whole degree once the last marks are in is what the degree classification calculator returns.
What each university's weighting asks of the final year
Year 1 at 58% and year 2 at 54%, with the final year to come, is one transcript. What it needs for a 2:1 moves 3.33 points across the six schemes below.
| University | Weighting | Mark for a 2:1 | Final year needed |
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| King's College London | 0:2:3 | 60% | 64% |
| University of Leeds | 0:1:2 | 60% | 63% |
| University of Birmingham | 0:25:75 | 60% | 62% |
| University of Manchester | 10:30:60 | 60% | 63.33% |
| University of Greenwich | 0:10:90 | 60% | 60.67% |
| University College London | 1:3:5 | 59.5% | 63.1% |
The University of Greenwich asks least of the final year because it weights that year 90 of 100, so there is more mark left to move. The schemes that drop year 1 hand the banked figure to year 2 alone, and where year 2 is the weaker of the two that pushes the final year figure up. University College London runs a different line again: its own 2:1 threshold is 59.5% rather than 60%. Every weighting here is read from the university's own regulations, and each one is listed with its source and the date it was read.
When a 2:1 is out of reach
A required average above 100% means the class is out of reach. Inside a single 120 credit year, 100 credits marked at 45% with 20 credits left asks for 135% across those last credits for a 2:1. Scoring 100% on every one of them finishes the year at 54.17%, a 2:2, and that is the ceiling.
The answer then becomes what it takes to hold the class that is left: 75% across the same 20 credits keeps the 2:2 rather than dropping to a 3rd. The table above the fold runs that arithmetic for every class at once.
Borderline zones lower the mark you need
Many universities award the higher class from a zone below the boundary, which moves the answer down. King's College London publishes one of them: A student who already holds a Third or above and whose score falls within 2 points of a boundary, at 68, 58 or 48, is promoted automatically when at least 60 credits at Level 6 or above in the final year sit at the higher class.
On that same transcript the zone route needs 60.67% in the final year rather than 64%, and it carries a condition: At least 60 credits at Level 6 or above in the final year at or above the higher class. The calculator shows both figures for any scheme whose regulations promote automatically, and the zones are set out in full alongside what a Board of Examiners decides instead.