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Dear Pei,

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

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

Your request

I would like to request the marks by percentile (including the 25th, 50th,
75th, 80th, 90th, 95th, and 99th percentiles, as well as the highest mark
achieved) for the following UCL modules:

For the academic year 2023/24:

MSIN0059 Managerial Accounting for Decision Making [Term 2]
POLS0010 Data Analysis
SOCS0045 Social Inequality and Mobility
SOCS0101 Digital Sociology
SOCS0042 Economics of Education
SOCS0043 Economics of Public Policy

For the academic year 2022/23:

SOCS0025 Social Change Within Contemporary Society
SOCS0024 Introduction to Sociology
SOCS0030 Introduction to Economics I
SOCS0031 Introduction to Economics II
SOCS0087 Politics: from Power to Participation
POLS0007 Principles of Social Science Research

Our response

We do not hold the requested information in the format you have asked for
(percentiles), and we are unable to provide you with individualised
bespoke data (such as the highest mark achieved) because this would
constitute us creating new data. However, we have a standard set of data
which displays module results in deciles (sections for each 10% of the
possible score a student could achieve) rather than percentiles.

The document attached shows the number of students and the marks they
achieved, who completed the modules you’ve specified broken down in
10-point deciles for the academic years 2022/23 and 2023/24. The figure
under each decile is the number of students who achieved a score in that
range that year. For example, the 50 – 59.99 column shows that 25 students
achieved a score between 50 and 59.99 in 2022/23 for the module POLS0007.

Please note the following:

• Marks for the 2023/24 module results are preliminary as late summer
assessments have not taken place yet.
• 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
indirectly lead to an individual being identified which would breach
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,
there is no need to conduct a public interest test.

You are free to use any information supplied for your own use, including
for non-commercial research purposes. The information may also be used for
the purposes of news reporting. However, any other type of re-use, for
example by publishing or issuing copies to the public, will require the
permission of the copyright owner.

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You should do this within two months of our final decision. Further
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Kind regards,

Gladys Mandangu

Data Protection and Freedom of Information Administrator

Data Protection Office

Office of the General Counsel

University College London

Tel: 020 80168488 (ext. 68488)

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