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Dear Jai,

Thank you for your request for information made under the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) 2000.

We confirm that we do hold information of the description specified in
your request; please see our response below and attached.

Your request

I would like to request the historical mean score and deciles (or as many
percentiles as possible where deciles are not available) for the following
modules:

- ALL modules with a MATH code (eg. MATH0002, MATH0107) including the 4th
year MATH0084 Project

- ALL CLIE LC** modules except LCEN (e.g. LCJA0002, LCDU0007, LCMA0015,
LCIT0001)

Compulsory modules for students studying various degrees within the maths
department, i.e.

- MSIN0003, MSIN004, MSIN0048, MSIN0049, MSIN0147

- PHAS0004, PHAS0005, PHAS0006, PHAS0010, PHAS0021, PHAS0022, PHAS0023,
PHAS0024, PHAS2222

- STAT0001, STAT0002, STAT0003, STAT0004, STAT0005, STAT0006, STAT0007,
STAT0008, STAT0011, STAT0023, STAT0045

Standard year 3 options for students across the department not already
covered, i.e.

- CPAS0012

- ECON0001, ECON0019, ECON0023, ECON0025, ECON0027, ECON0028, ECON0040,
ECON0047, ECON0052, ECON0053, ECON0054, ECON0055, ECON0056

- MSIN0029, MSIN0039, MSIN0047, MSIN0051, MSIN0059

- PHAS0037, PHAS0038, PHAS0040, PHAS0041, PHAS0042, PHAS0049, PHAS0050,
PHAS0057

- STAT0009, STAT0010, STAT0013, STAT0014, STAT0015, STAT0018, STAT0020,
STAT0025

Standard year 4 options for students across the department not already
covered; i.e.

- PHAS0061, PHAS0069, PHAS0070, PHAS0072, PHAS0073, PHAS0097

- STAT0035

Standard electives for year 2/3/4 students not already covered, i.e.

- BASC0017, BASC0038, BASC0047

- BENG0019

- COMP0015, COMP0142

- ECON0008, ECON0011, ECON0044

- INST0002, INST0060

- MSIN0004, MSIN0061, MSIN0146

I would like to request the stated results for the stated modules for as
many consecutive years as possible, starting with 2023/24 and proceeding
one year at a time in reverse chronological order, such that the cost of
complying with the request is within the appropriate limit as defined in
Section 12(1) of the FOIA. For each year of data provided, if the headings
of each section of requested modules don't match for that year, please
provide the data for the modules relevant to the heading for that year
(e.g. some MATH modules may have been created or discontinued between the
start and end of the range - please include all the ones that ran in each
year provided).

Our response

Please see our response attached. Please also note the following:

• We do not hold the requested information in percentiles, and we are
unable to provide you with individualised bespoke data because this
would constitute us creating new data. However, we have a standard set
of data which shows the module results in deciles rather than
percentiles. The document attached shows, for each of the modules
listed and for academic years 2020/21, 2021/22, 2022/23 and 2023/24,
the mean mark, the total number of students and the number of students
whose marks were within each respective decile. The figure under each
decile is the number of students who achieved a score in that range
that year.

• Exact numbers of students totalling 5 or fewer have been withheld.
This is because to provide the exact numbers may inadvertently lead to
the identification of these individuals. Whilst there are no
personally identifiable details within the data being withheld, that
data, when combined with other data that may already be available in
the public domain, could be used by ‘motivated intruders’ and other
knowledgeable third parties to identify the individuals concerned.
Linking together separate strands of data available in this way can
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the first data protection principle. Further, these individuals would
have no expectation that their identities, by virtue of disclosing
this type of information, would be made known to the wider public and
it would be considered unfair to do so.

As this data would be likely to become personal data, this information is
exempt from disclosure and has been withheld under section 40(2) of the
FOIA by virtue of s40(3A)(a). Section 40(2) of the FOIA allows a public
authority to withhold information under the FOIA where (i) the requested
information is personal data relating to someone other than the requester
and (ii) its disclosure would breach any of the data protection
principles. It is for these reasons that this information is exempt under
section 40(2) of the Act. As the section 40(2) exemption is absolute,
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Kind regards,

Gladys Mandangu

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Administrator

Data Protection Office

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