Primo Levi - Draft I

[changeling67]

Karl Bodek & Kurt Conrad Lowe - One Spring (Art from the Holocaust)

1,506 words - first rough draft, but there is a lot of padding to go around it.  Much to be done over the next few days, plus additional reading and sprinkles and such. I feel better as I believe I am about 50% the way there - max word count is 2,500 and I plan to use every tiny word to make this sing.

Right now, I am going to have an early night - note to self, remember to display the resourcefulnes of the characters.

21:16
Most displeased to find that the highest that any student can score at degree level is 80%.  This is not localised to Plymouth Uni; it is symptomatic over the entire country. How is this possible? Now, I am no way a genius, but what happens if you were - still only 80%? Because you cannot possibly be writing to MA or PhD standard - even if you are?

Either you have done a pukka job or not.

* shakes head in disbelief *

Comments

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

That's interesting. Why would they say that? Of course, I worked at a job where you could never achieve a 5, even when every category was 5 or better (meaning you surpasses all your required goals). It used to piss me off no end.

[calico-pye.livejournal.com]

At a guess, the cap is at 80% because if you scored higher, you would enter a bracket where you are MA standard or higher, but can't be marked as such. Stupid really - I suppose it would screw the marking levels. 70% would be considered lousy if you compare it to 90%. Maybe 1 person's capped 80% is better than anothers.

Never could work out the logistics of the degree system - hence losing out on my overall first.

[spikesgirl58.livejournal.com]

That sounds even more convoluted.