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Probably a stupid question but I know that for most subjects your mark is rounded up at the end i.e. a 49.5 rounds up to 50 and you still pass.

Hypothetically though, what if a student gets 99.5? would they be rounded up to 100 (perfect score)?

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I don't see why not. However, if your getting 99.5, the extra .5 really doesn't mean much.
 

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49.5 does NOT get rounded up to 50.

i know one person who got 49.70 and still failed. beg, cry, suck dk all they want, they couldnt get it chaged

50.00 is the cut-off for a pass. not 49.99
 

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49.5 does NOT get rounded up to 50.

i know one person who got 49.70 and still failed. beg, cry, suck dk all they want, they couldnt get it chaged

50.00 is the cut-off for a pass. not 49.99
dont lie m8
 

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49.5 does NOT get rounded up to 50.

i know one person who got 49.70 and still failed. beg, cry, suck dk all they want, they couldnt get it chaged

50.00 is the cut-off for a pass. not 49.99
actually in most cases i think the lecturers have a look at all the other work of the student and might decide to scale it up.
 

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49.5 does NOT get rounded up to 50.

i know one person who got 49.70 and still failed. beg, cry, suck dk all they want, they couldnt get it chaged

50.00 is the cut-off for a pass. not 49.99
Its up to the SC in the end. Some may just put it to 50 and some SC's will fail you, depends how good their day has been
 

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Not rounding it up would be quite harsh. If you get a 49.5 and fail, you might have a compelling case with an appeal.

Just to note, perfect scores are possible. I've seen it happen in an IT subject.
 
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Final marks at the end of a semester are always given as a whole number, not halfs, so if the person is getting 49.5 it would be rounded up to 50.
 

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49.5 does NOT get rounded up to 50.

i know one person who got 49.70 and still failed. beg, cry, suck dk all they want, they couldnt get it chaged

50.00 is the cut-off for a pass. not 49.99

Thats BS. They almost always round up - depending on the students performance overall (they might have gotten good marks in the assignment but stuffed up the exam), attendence/participation and also if there were large numbers of students failing by a small margin. It's basically just scaling of the final marks. Even though a student might have got 49 overall the lecturer in most cases will just award a 50 on the dot.

In first year accounting I failed/barely passed every single assessment. I attended every single class and made sure the lecturer knew my name. My final mark was 50.00 - obviously my raw marks were a fail (probably by a small margin) but I was scaled up to pass.
 

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