How much do the results from the foreign university count towards my Law-with-a-Language degree?
Due to the widely varying standards of courses and examination systems overseas the ‘foreign’ marks are given comparatively low weighting in calculating (with the cascade system) your overall degree result – broadly equivalent to the effect of a 20-credit Level 3 module. The best way to understand the impact of your results from a year abroad is probably to think of them as generally having a neutral effect upon your final degree classification. This neutrality is a consequence of the (generally) smaller credit size of the foreign modules, the level at which these modules are taken (level 2), and the presence of much bigger credit modules from your home university. The marks which come from the foreign university (in our books known as Band S universities; don’t ask me why) cannot be placed directly on Astra, they are combined into one single mark here in Aberystwyth and this mark is then put into the system: the greatest amount by which such a mark can add or subtract from your final
