(11-08-2015, 09:52 PM)dorothy.pipet Wrote: I have been told by one of the examiners that my results so far put me in the running for a Thorrowgood Scholarship. Given I've done one paper of each 2013 & 2014 so far, and am going for 1 paper this year, I got the impression that there is not a time limit if your marks are sufficiently impressive.
Obviously if somebody is getting distinctions with 4 papers in one year that is more impressive and is going to trump my efforts.
Interesting; perhaps they are beginning to realise that few take the exam at one fell swoop now and that it is more important to encourage overall quality than motivate people to sit all at once.
It would be easy enough to look at all candidate who FINISH the exam in any year and add up their summed previous performance. This would of course somewhat disadvantage those doing all modules in the one year as inevitably an entire day of exams takes its toll, so presumably as you say they would need to make some sort of compensation when evaluating the results.
I don't think that anything has been officially changed, but perhaps there is now a different interpretation; when the system was first set up the Exam could only be taken as an entity so anything written down would never have gone into detail for a situation that did not then exist - hence I guess there is room for interpretation and interpolation.
PJW