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<blockquote data-quote="Adam Gilchrist" data-source="post: 33749" data-attributes="member: 5820"><p>As a general rule, you won't get an automatic rejection for module results. Firms with minimum A level requirements/minimum degree class requirements will do so, but not for modules automatically as far as I know. Automatic grade rejection is only for A levels/degree certifications as a rule.</p><p></p><p>S&M is the only firm that really really places a lot of emphasis on grades - it's just a simple way for them of filtering out people, no one else does it so much. That said, S&M isn't impossible, but it will certainly be considerably more difficult.</p><p></p><p>I suspect other firms <em>may </em>hold it against you, particularly if it's for one of those vac schemes only open to current undergrads (which means the firm can't filter people out by degree certification), but as always, make sure the rest of your application is extremely strong to compensate for any weakness like this.</p><p></p><p>Equally, be prepared for the subject potentially to come up at interview of why you did less well on a particular module, so make sure you have a good answer. </p><p></p><p>Most important thing though is to work hard at the next set of modules to get better results. it looks a <em>lot </em>better if your grades shoot up (as mine did, scraped a 2.2 in prelims in 1st year, then improved to a first in my finals) than if your grades continuously languish at the bottom.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Adam Gilchrist, post: 33749, member: 5820"] As a general rule, you won't get an automatic rejection for module results. Firms with minimum A level requirements/minimum degree class requirements will do so, but not for modules automatically as far as I know. Automatic grade rejection is only for A levels/degree certifications as a rule. S&M is the only firm that really really places a lot of emphasis on grades - it's just a simple way for them of filtering out people, no one else does it so much. That said, S&M isn't impossible, but it will certainly be considerably more difficult. I suspect other firms [I]may [/I]hold it against you,[I] [/I]particularly if it's for one of those vac schemes only open to current undergrads (which means the firm can't filter people out by degree certification), but as always, make sure the rest of your application is extremely strong to compensate for any weakness like this. Equally, be prepared for the subject potentially to come up at interview of why you did less well on a particular module, so make sure you have a good answer. Most important thing though is to work hard at the next set of modules to get better results. it looks a [I]lot [/I]better if your grades shoot up (as mine did, scraped a 2.2 in prelims in 1st year, then improved to a first in my finals) than if your grades continuously languish at the bottom. [/QUOTE]
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