Quick Brit Speak Question: 2:1 in his MA

[Sarah]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "dungrollin" 
<spotthedungbeetle at h...> wrote:
> 
> Steve wrote:

> 
> 2:1 refers to the grade of a bachelor's degree. You can get a 
first, 
> a second (2:1 is an upper second, 2:2 is a lower second) a third, a 
> pass or a fail. In normal conversation you would say "I got a two-
> one" or "I got an upper second".
> 
I got a "Desmond" for my degree (2:2, Tutu), which just goes to show 
that although I have a very intelligent facade I'm actually a bit of 
a dunce and only scraped through by the skin of my teeth (and a lot 
of hard work on my dissertation) and have the equivalent academic 
achievments of Neville Longbottom in Potions.  But who cares?  You 
all love me for my sense of humour and comic timing...don't you?
Sarah xx