Re: [DIYbio] Unemployed Edinburgh graduate looking for something interesting in the UK.

It's a University grade in EU format, meaning "Second class honours,
grade one.". Over here, you're considered to have gotten a "perfect
score" if you score higher than 70% (stupid, right?), which is very
rare, and is termed a 1:1. The 10% band below that is 2:1, below that is
2:2, and below that is 3.

There's actually a translation scale used when applying for postgraduate
programs in the US because our scores appear superficially to be so
terribly low, when in fact it's just a nonsense transposition of 90%
down to 70%. So 65% is considered a very good grade over here.

On 06/09/12 14:51, Nathan McCorkle wrote:
> What's a 2:1?
> On Sep 6, 2012 9:31 AM, "abiologystudent" <thomas_wood@live.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> I'm an Edinburgh Biotech graduate with a 2:1 looking for something
>> interesting to do in the UK. If anyone would like a month's free labour
>> (or, madness, even like to pay me) to do/research/organise/badly-code
>> something that's an interesting thing, then i'd be delighted to help. I may
>> even travel if it's interesting enough and someone has a floor.
>>
>> Skills and experience:
>>
>> - A variety of lab skills
>> - Some basic coding skills (slowly progressing), adept with computers,
>> linux.
>> - Significant amounts of experience researching Transcription
>> Activator-Like Effector Nucleases and Zinc Fingers (my honours project).
>> - Has previously built own DIY centrifuge
>> - Widely interested in commercial biotech, open-source things, patents and
>> law.
>>
>> Also, had anyone been reading the transhumanist stuff on wired this week?
>> It's excellent fun.
>>
>> http://www.iamdann.com/2012/03/21/my-magnet-implant-body-modification
>>
>> http://vimeo.com/23836862
>>
>> T
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