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Enlighten a European. Is there some reason you put extra focus on getting good grades the last year, do employers focus mainly on the last year grades? (On a r

• Tarks 17y ago
  As a rule it's because the years have different weights assigned to them, so as an example first year counts towards about 20% of the final degree classification, second year 35% and third year 45% EDIT: Just to help avoid confusion I'll reiterate that this is talking about universities in England
  • sachinag 17y ago
    This is not the way it works at any reputable college I've ever heard of here in the States. I've been on many recruiting teams and cumulative GPA is always done as a straight average over credit hours (which are typically evenly distributed over each of the standard four years).
  • zxcvb 17y ago
    Most UK universities don't do it like that. Usually, the first year is worth nothing, the second year is 1/3 and the final year is 2/3. Sometimes you do an extra year inbetween the second and thid year if you take a year out in indsutry. Also, college is a different thing to University in the UK.
• sachinag 17y ago
  You always want to do well, but if you don't do well early, you can at least point to improvement in your later semesters as you "got the hang of" college. This improvement is also helpful for graduate schools, although a magic improvement senior year is not as good as steady improvement over the years. Traditionally, full-time hiring is complete for good employees (in all disciplines) by the winter break of the fourth (senior) year, where there's some clause that you can't get terrible grades in your last semester.