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What differentiate a 4.5-4.8+ to a 5.0 CGPA is also what differentiate good footballers from Messi and Ronaldo
Hunger!!!!!
Olamide Emmanuel retweeted
Three things you can do this week even with a busy schedule:
1. Send 5 short professor emails
2. Get one person to review your SOP
3. Update your CV with one new line (Online course, personal project, or Medium article)
Which one are you doing first?
Nigerian engineering students that have done convocation
Is the Coren 1 year residency still happening for this current set?
Everything is just the fault of Nigeria current situation in the education sector
Old professors or lecturers aren’t that strong as they started so they just repeat past questions
Which falls in the favour of some departments in some or probably most schools
Just saying
The way I see it, the whole idea of selecting an Overall Best Graduating Student across an entire university should be scrapped. Let each faculty recognise its own Best Graduating Student instead. How do we fairly compare academic performance across completely different disciplines and then declare one person the best of them all?
Faculty??
Department jhor
Congratulations, scholar @Francis_TheMath. This is a great mindset, and it's obvious how you were able to graduate with a perfect 5.00/5.00 CGPA and finally emerged as the Overall Best Graduating Student.
I think the majority of comments and quotes I've seen so far suggest that people have misinterpreted your statement. And the fact that I'm seeing some other First-Class graduates disagree with you shows that even among those who have achieved the same classification, opinions differ. Some even feel you've unfairly raised the benchmark 😁.
From what I understand, Francis may not necessarily be saying that First-Class should start from 4.80+ or that 4.80 and above represents a particularly strong First-Class. He may simply be expressing his personal standard for what he considers exceptional academic performance, and perhaps that mindset helped him maintain such an impressive CGPA. As the saying goes, "aim for the moon; even if you miss, you'll land among the stars." this is reminder that setting ambitious targets can push us to achieve more.
Just like there are many students who are in university without knowing the exact CGPA thresholds for the different degree classifications. I also know someone whose plan was to graduate with a Second-Class degree if he couldn't make First-Class, without even knowing that there are Second-Class Upper and Lower classifications. By the time he realised this, he was already in his final semester. There are many students like that. So, if Scholar Francis says, "Till today, I still always feel First-Class starts from 4.8+" don't get it twisted. He may be describing the standard he personally sets for himself, not proposing a new official threshold for everyone.
However, for those who have taken Francis's post beyond what he actually said and started setting benchmarks for a strong or exceptional First-Class, I think you're opening up a complicated, subjective, and difficult-to-settle debate when it comes to comparing graduates across different fields.
Let me tell you, First-Class is First-Class regardless of the CGPA or the course of study, and it starts at the threshold set by a university's grading system, whether on a 5.00 or 4.00 scale.
Unless some of you are limiting your argument to Mathematics, engineering and other science courses that rely heavily on calculations, I think you'd see things differently if you've studied Political Science or other social sciences. You might appreciate what it takes to earn the least 4.50/5.00 CGPA. The demands are different, and while a 5.00/5.00 in Mathematics, engineering, medicine or any other science oriented disciplines is an impressive achievement, earning a 4.50/5.00 in courses like Political Science can be equivalent to any CGPA above that, including 5.00/5.00 CGPA in Mathematics and any other courses other than social sciences or humanities. YES, you read that right!because a First-Class CGPA in Political Science also requires exceptional effort, critical thinking, and consistency - just like any other course you may wish to compare with.
Don't get me wrong. What you should know is that academic demands and grading practices vary across disciplines. Some courses go beyond calculations or give it back direct as it is. You have to analyse, interpret, construct arguments, and defend positions where answers aren't always straightforward. In that case, grading can be less predictable, and whether you get a C or a B, not to mention an A, can depend heavily on the judgement of the lecturer marking your script.
So, it is erroneous for anyone to be setting a standard for a strong First-Class or an exceptional one.
In fact, the whole idea of selecting an Overall Best Graduating Student across an entire university should be scrapped. Let each faculty recognise its own Best Graduating Student instead. How do we fairly compare academic performance across completely different disciplines and then declare one person the best of them all?
Na repeated past questions some department Dey give dem students 🙂↔️
The way I see it, the whole idea of selecting an Overall Best Graduating Student across an entire university should be scrapped. Let each faculty recognise its own Best Graduating Student instead. How do we fairly compare academic performance across completely different disciplines and then declare one person the best of them all?
