M.Phil results
This afternoon, after my final meeting with Dr. Hurrell, I got back one copy of my thesis and my grades for the M.Phil:
- Thesis: 63
- Developing world: 68
- International relations theory: 68
- History: 75 (Distinction)
- International law: 77 (Distinction)
To put those in perspective, have a look at the scale of marks. The thesis grade is a bit of a disappointment, especially considering how I expended well over one hundred times more effort on the thesis than on the exams. I only began serious exam revision after getting back from the Lake District on June 3rd. Based on the very crude method of taking the mean of the five grades, I got 70.2 overall.
Since the thesis is now publicly available in the Bodleian, it seems appropriate to make it publicly available online as well: Expertise and Legitimacy: The Role of Science in Global Environmental Policy-Making.This version has about two dozen minor errors corrected. If you find more, please let me know and I will make the appropriate changes in the electronic version.
June 29th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
Tough break on the thesis. 75 and 77 are awesome, however.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:50 pm
Congrats! In my experience most people get better marks on the exams. It great that you got some distinctions.
June 29th, 2007 at 8:53 pm
Those are some very good exam marks. The thesis mark is a bit of a surprise, but that’s how these things go sometimes (a lot can still depend on your examiner, etc)
June 30th, 2007 at 1:10 am
I know that Evelyn Goh was one of the examiners. She left a letter addressed to herself between some of the last pages of the copy of the thesis that got handed back to me.
June 30th, 2007 at 10:04 am
do u know when the other m.phil results come out?
July 1st, 2007 at 2:17 pm
I hear there were four distinctions in your year. As far as I know, that is unprecedented.