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Dear Robert

Thank you for your request for information.

In order to proceed with your request below, we need clarification and
this is mentioned below.

Please provide the requested clarification within 20 working days of this
email.

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Please could you provide the following information:

1) The (anonymised) year means of all first-year students on the BSc/MEng
Computer Science courses in the 2022-23 academic year. Note that by "year
mean" I mean the credit-weighted average mark of the modules that students
take in their first year of these courses.

2) In addition, could you provide: the 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th, 97th, and
99th percentile year means for first-year BSc/MEng Computer Science
students in the 2022-23 academic year. Please provide a single set of
percentiles for the combined BSc/MEng cohort, rather than separate figures
for each course.

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********CLARIFICATION********

Please can you provide the module codes that you are requesting the data?

********CLARIFICATION********

I look forward to hearing from you.

Kind regards,

Josh

Josh Keyte

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Adviser

University College London

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Data Protection: [1][email address] FOI: [2][UCL request email]

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Dear Robert,

Thank you for your Freedom of Information request of 28 October 2023.

We have completed the compilation of information in response to your
request which read:

Please could you provide the following information:

1) The (anonymised) year means of all first-year students on the BSc/MEng
Computer Science courses in the 2022-23 academic year. Note that by "year
mean" I mean the credit-weighted average mark of the modules that students
take in their first year of these courses.

2) In addition, could you provide: the 50th, 75th, 90th, 95th, 97th, and
99th percentile year means for first-year BSc/MEng Computer Science
students in the 2022-23 academic year. Please provide a single set of
percentiles for the combined BSc/MEng cohort, rather than separate figures
for each course.

In a subsequent email you clarified that: you are requesting the data for
the module codes: COMP0002, COMP0003, COMP0004, COMP0005, COMP0011,
COMP0147, ENGF0001, ENGF0034; and you are looking for the average /
percentiles for students who finished their first year studying computer
science in the 22-23 academic year across all their modules.

We can confirm that we do hold some information of the description
specified in your request and this information is provided in the attached
spreadsheet.

For limb 1 of your request, due to how we hold results data here, the
calculations to create the data are complicated and undertaking them would
be unreasonable. To calculate the requested information would create data
that UCL does not create during its normal processes, which we are not
required to do under the FOIA.

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Josh Keyte

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University College London

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