Leeds Beckett University
degree classification calculator
Quick answer: Leeds Beckett uses a single calculation, not a best-of-two: the weighted average of your best 100 credits at Level 5 and your best 100 credits at Level 6, weighted 25:75. The lowest-scoring 20 credits of each year drop out automatically. Land within 2% of a boundary and you are upgraded provided half or more of the credit at your final level sits in the higher class — and unlike most universities here, that rule reaches the third-class boundary too.
Leeds Beckett degree classification calculator
One method: best 100 credits at Levels 5 and 6, 25:75Level 5 — second year
Level 6 — final year
What do I need for a First?
Enter the marks you already have above. These boxes are the credits still to come in each year: a year with no marks yet is counted as all still to come. Change them if that is not right for you.
| Class | Mark needed in every remaining module |
|---|
Class boundaries
| Class | Weighted mark | Uplift rule |
|---|---|---|
| First Class Honours (1st) | 70% or above | or 68% with at least half of final-year credits at 70% or above |
| Upper Second Class Honours (2:1) | 60% or above | or 58% with at least half of final-year credits at 60% or above |
| Lower Second Class Honours (2:2) | 50% or above | or 48% with at least half of final-year credits at 50% or above |
| Third Class Honours | 40% or above | or 38% with at least half of final-year credits at 40% or above |
What do I need for a First?
The planner under the calculator works backwards from Leeds Beckett’s own algorithm. Enter the marks you have so far, leave the years you have not finished empty (or set how many credits are still to come), and it shows the lowest mark you would need in every remaining module to reach each class. It runs the same calculation as the calculator, using the year weights, the best-credits rule and the secondary rules in the table above, so a class reached through one of those routes shows the lower figure.
The answer is a single mark repeated across every remaining module. Real marks vary, and where only some credits count or a class can be reached through a share of high marks, an uneven spread can sometimes get there with a slightly lower average. “Already secured” means the algorithm gives that class even at 0 in what is left, but you still have to pass those modules.
One calculation, and that is what makes it different
Regulation 3.7 gives a single instruction: the Progression and Award Board takes “the weighted average of the best 100 credits at levels 5 (25%) and 6 (75%)”. There is no Level 6-only alternative running alongside it. That matters, because Manchester Met and Sheffield Hallam use the same 25:75 weighting but run it as the better of two methods — so a Leeds Beckett student with a weak second year has no second route to fall back on, where theirs would.
The best 100 credits at each level, chosen for you
Only your best 100 credits at each of Level 5 and Level 6 enter the average, so the lowest-scoring 20 credits of each year are set aside automatically. This is not something you apply for. Enter all your modules here, weak ones included — the calculator does the selection the same way the Board does, splitting a module by credit where it straddles the 100-credit line.
The borderline reaches every boundary, including the bottom one
If your final weighted average is within 2% of a classification boundary, the class is upgraded provided 50% or more of the credit achieved at the final level is in the higher classification. Most universities on this site stop short of the pass boundary — Northumbria, Queen Mary and Nottingham Trent all decline to consider anyone there. Leeds Beckett’s rule carries no such exclusion, so an average of 38 or 39 can still reach a Third where half your Level 6 credit is at 40% or above. The upgrade can be blocked where a professional or regulatory body forbids it.
The marking conventions are bands, and there is no published rounding rule
Section 3.6 sets the conventions used for marking and for classification: A 70%+ First, B 60–69% Upper Second, C 50–59% Lower Second, D 40–49% Third, with three fail bands below. The regulations do not state a rounding rule for the final weighted average, so this page classifies the unrounded figure — the cautious reading. If your average sits a fraction under a boundary, the borderline rule above is the thing to check rather than hoping for a round-up.
The algorithm is changing in 2028/29
Regulation 3.7 carries a notice attached to both the honours and the Integrated Masters calculations: “From 2028/29 the algorithm used to calculate classifications will change”, with the phased implementation set out in annexe 3d. That annexe is not part of Section 3 and has not been read for this page, so what changes and for whom is not stated here. If you are starting Level 4 in the next couple of years, this is worth asking your course team about.
Integrated Masters, study elsewhere and late work
An Integrated Masters is classified on the best 100 credits at levels 5 (10%), 6 (20%) and 7 (70%), for students who started Level 4 from August 2022. Where you study at another institution, your classification is normally based solely on marks earned at Leeds Beckett, with contribution from elsewhere by exception only and set out in the course document. Work submitted 1 to 10 days late is capped at the pass mark (40% at Levels 4–6), and beyond that a zero is recorded — a capped mark may well be one of the 20 credits per level that drop out.
What this calculator does not do
It applies the published algorithm to the marks you enter. It cannot know your programme’s approved variances, any extenuating circumstances, capped resit marks, or how a Board of Examiners will use its discretion. Where a rule is a judgement rather than a formula, the page says so rather than guessing.
Sources
Every figure on this page is read from Leeds Beckett’s own regulations:
- Leeds Beckett University — Academic Regulations, Section 3: Education and Assessment — read in full: 3.4 the 40% module pass mark; 3.6 the marking conventions and classification bands; 3.7 Classification — the honours calculation on the best 100 credits at Levels 5 and 6 weighted 25:75, the Integrated Masters 10:20:70, the Consideration of Borderline Performance rule with its 2% zone and 50%-of-final-level-credit test, and the notice that the algorithm changes from 2028/29; 3.12 the late submission cap; 3.17 the treatment of study at other institutions.
- Leeds Beckett University — Academic Regulations, Section 4: Progression and Award — the companion section covering award eligibility, undergraduate profiles of achievement and reassessment, and confirming that placement-year work cannot be used in establishing a classification unless validated as a credit-bearing module at Level 5 or 6.
Regulations change between intakes. Your own cohort’s handbook is always authoritative.