Are univesiry grades an accurate description of how well the student understand philosophy/literature?

Are univesiry grades an accurate description of how well the student understand philosophy/literature?

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>univesiry
OK. I'm thinking that it is essential to prove to be able to convey your thoughts in a proper manner yielding good grades. If you struggle during your entire degree it is most definetly an issue solely on your side, but various fluxuation between courses might mean that it is an odd combination of your inability to address the questions properly and your idiosyncratic style not being grader friendly. If you don't at least have a few courses to fall back on to prove you are not autistic you are stupid and your grades validate your aptitude in the field.
Good grades are more uncertain since it is too often that someone who genuinely fails to grab the bigger picture breezes through exams with high grades and is therefore on par with the ones who actually deserve the recognition.
>Yes

Depends on what university you study at.

I would assume 90% of Yea Forums students are somewhere in between an easy-A's shit university and just-passing Oxford.

I study in a top 10 Uni in Europe (you can easily guess it), I read a few of a few Yea Forums anons that go to Oxbridge but they were probably LARPing and cosplaying what a model student would look like.

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Jesus these typos, sorry I'm incredibly high (Yes it's University of Amsterdam)

Oxbridge and Ivy League posters are Ubermensch; it's not just about being smart, you have to have a certain character that others simply lack.

Nah

Lol mijn universiteit is beter dan de uwe

It depends on how well you get to know your professor and what they want to see.

Clearly not. Provinciaalen like you only dream about studying at UvA.

Sad cope. Call me when you want an Erasmus exchange to an actual university.

Oxford isn't even top two in the UK anymore lmao. *dabs in St. Andrews*

if grades are based on writing, then yes
writing is the marker of whether or not you are knowledgable in a subject, as it requires you to argue an idea with evidence in a clear and concise manner
also, undergrad degrees arent important in the humanities. if oxbridge/ivy students are showboating about their degree, great, but if they dont gom to a top-flight graduate program (chicago, yale, berkeley), then theyre retards

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cringe @ uva; what do you study, philosophy?

In general no and yes, simply because grading systems are dependent on what they are trying to capture.

A simplified breakdown of this is where grading values work ethic/learning. (A subset of learning might be understanding)

It will also depend on teacher, school, and to an extend politics.

ad many things in oir society certain aspects have not improved as others have but remained archaic and faulty.
It is quite disappointing that the system to prove merit has not been improved in the field as philosophy especially considering all the ones currently employing the system had to suffer through it once themselves and must have notoced its inherent flaws but then became unwilling to improve them when they entered the positions to do so, but continue as it always has been.

while cornell might not necessarily be a “first rate” ivy league, this is blatantly untrue in my experience

>understands philosophy/literature
LMAO

No. I have a master's from one of the top universities in the United States. I got high A's in useless classes where I learned absolutely nothing, and I got B-'s in classes that changed my life.

i got a C today in a class everyone got A’s or high B’s in so you guys are really providing much needed solace for me right now

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what, being a sodomite?

Literature Ph.D candidate here. When I was doing my undergrad at Harvard College, I didn't even bother with citations in my literature courses. I would cite Plato's Phaedrus and declare that books can merely serve as reminders not memory aids. My professors would usually have to excuse themselves from the classroom for a few minutes after I made one of my (frequent) contributions to class 'discussion'. If you pseuds are still worried about worthless climber tokens like 'grades' and not wisdom, you're absolutely helpless.

I went to Oxford and did a PPE degree. I have also read a lot of bitter posts about poshness but I did see a grain of truth: that the public school upbringing shielded you from feeling offence. It's true. It's always jarring when I come across a Yea Forums type in real life, one of those fiercely attempting to climb the class ladder through erudition and intellect alone. It is embarrassing on both sides.

On the one hand, this person, so used to being the towering intellect in their Durham-LSE-UCL (oh spare me about English Literature rankings!)-Warwick social circle (Bristol, Edinburgh, and St. Andrews seem to produce only jolly clowns, not these types), is visibly mortified while realising how much the Oxbridge natural brilliance shines through. What's funny is that they are invariably better read than me. Tolstoy's lesser known works and so on. But they are still visibly insecure, in many cases shaking. Sometimes I use my 3-to-1 tutorial hewn bullshitting technique to pretend that I have read as much as them but I always reveal that I am joking and this terrifies them, as if realising I have been boxing with both hands behind my back. Please, you guys, DON'T come across so try hard.

I now float in and out of fashionable South Kensington, Russel Square, and, when I feel like knobbing that hipsterish girl you cooed over in your 30 person English tutorials as a Chinese teaching assistant failed to draw ANY original thoughts from the class, Camden mileus on these autumnal and winter Friday and Saturday nights. It's quite funny really, my friends and I were academically brilliant, on many occasions being invited for individual wine sessions with multiple tutors from Economics, Law, and English Literature, and being begged to continue on with further study- on one occasion my tutor postponed his meeting with the Presidents of the World Bank and IMF where he would advise them of the Venezuela situation, in order to plead with me to develop a Hegelian line of attack on the similarities of English common law and Constantinople law that I had mentioned in a throwaway comment- and yet, in these fashionable parties, the most easily brilliant and witty people were the Oxbridge colleagues among us who had done so academically badly. Lowly Atillas, lazy Desmonds, narcoleptic Douglases: who knew they were so brilliant? But I guess that's Oxbridge for you!

You write like my GCSE instructor who turned out to be a nonce. When I was at Cambridge we used to give nonces like you swirlies in the dormitory toilets. The tutors usually came along, as long as they were cool.

jesus christ you come off as a total prick
good job

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How did you even get into a postgraduate program in the first place?

After my senior thesis got published in the Harvard Review I received several offers to apply. I picked the most prestigious one & they gave me some money.