Basic:
Oga, there are no contradictions, unless you need an interpreter to help you out. Or better, trying reading through again, probably you were not fully awake the first time.

Basic:
Oga, there are no contradictions, unless you need an interpreter to help you out. Or better, trying reading through again, probably you were not fully awake the first time.

may be he doesnt know the difference between the gp of 3.48 Bsc and 4.75 PG

I don't know why this topic is here, the poster should go and complain at nuc or he should go and buy jamb form and try again.
Rubbish.

Even illiterates are billionaires how much more a graduate of university is confused.....

achi4u: @op,once intelligent always intelligent,thatz not the end of the road.
I hate to see ppl parading a result they cannot even defend,so if you know you're self (IQ level per se),u must make it.

Remeber a man who cannot smile shouldnot open a shop.

I rather empoly a man who can smile than one with rough/stone face(Dale Carniege)

abeg still keep reading motivational books.

...as 4me,i've neva sett my foot on any higher learning but promise myself to emback on that jonny.

it's so obvious from all your posts on NL. Education sure makes a BIG difference.

This i hope isnt for u....buh this kind of figure is annoyin indeed buh nt graduatin wit 2:2 or 2:1...one day in getin job our practical abilities wil be consider...best of luck 4u @ d labour & 4me also...

Sory,I feel u.. but tinkn ur Gp gets u a job is more pathetik dan d situatn we are adresing here. D best graded students in my set went either 4 Msc or still aplying 2 get job till now xcept 4 few. Probably dy felt so secured wt d grade&frm a 1st klass Uni in Nig.
My poor grade gingered me 2 prepare well 4d labour mkt dan odas wt gud grades. I got a job as d QC head of a reputable firm(a PLC) 2mths afta my NYSC.
My performance@ d interviews n GOD got me d job. During one of d interviews, l was askd wy such grade wen pple still mk gud grades,l went bak hom dejected but...I thnk God nw. Experience,personal development,boldness&profesional traing atimes counts more dan d so called MSc.Gud grade is gud n shld b encoraged but doesn't guarantee u job evrytime. U must equip ursef,ok!

Okoya: All my efforts ended with a CGPA 3.49..... what's
my fate in the market? Maybe I should just get a
transcript. This Is so painful. Please I need words
of encouragement.

eh yaaa you didn't cheat well in your final exams. Just 0.1 only, chei, had it been u succeded in copying that guy's work it would have landed you in other side but as it's now it can't be reversed. Sorry my dear, the deed has been done. Next time u have to be fast in copying but if u insist in knowing ur fate, u can ask the NLC Chairman.

Claracuzio: I don't know why this topic is here, the poster should go and complain at nuc or he should go and buy jamb form and try again.
Rubbish.

hehe, o boy u dey vex o

ishmael: @Mollytinrox: I disagree with u on ur previous post. The labour in nigeria looks at the certificate and grade more than skills. If not, can u explain why polytechnic HND graduates with skills are not considered in most cases, even when it is obvious that they posses the skills employers want?

mr man make i hear word. Designing skills and repairing skills is not the same my dear. It's like knowing the external without the knowledge of internal aspect. Don't compare HND with Bachelors degree pls.

conyema12:

wow!! whats ur problem Mr Innocent... I just had to share my own experience to help the young man, thats what this is all about and you are there abusing me...well then if you will like to hear more ... My school offerred me a Research assistant position with PhD scholarship after my MSc. and I rejected it cos I want to build my career in Oil and gas industry....
@ Op dust urself up and prove that ur CGPA is not your potential.
Also look for something to be doing for God in ur church..it can be in choir or other things..pray and He will give you peace of mind.

right on point my dear. God will surely do that. He need God to take control.

Timileyin: when you apply for jobs, put 2.1 and when they request for your transcript, show is to them.. they will pardon you.

is that ur suggestion?. U think job is been offered out of pity?

@op your ability to deliver is what matters in the job market. I came out witha almost same grade u have but m working in a good establishment. I will advice dat you look a job n do ur masters same time, developing yourself n getting experience is very important n vital if u want to get a job in todays market.

They have said it all. Your degree is not the determinant to your success. All I would advise is that you put yourself together and forge ahead. The only thing the degree class does for you is to give you more options of where to apply to but what gets you the job is how intelligent you are as such focus more on your inate ability than your class of degree.

Guy, brace up and wake up to reality. You had a 2.2 and that is not the end of life. you could have had "oriyomi" 2.1 and that in itself could put you in complacency. At least you know you have to enhance your chances.

what do you think employers are looking for in a 2.1? do you think they'll prefer a "3.50" 2.1 over a "4.49" 2.1?

You'll still get chance to interview and that is when you have to prove yourself. I feel your plight and I know you can still shine. its up to you!!!

Dude, any cgpa doesn't guarantee that a person will get the best of jobs. As an HR professional, I've seen numerous applications of people with the best of grades but during interview you realize they have just "book knowledge". In Nigeria, life outside school is way different from life in school. I have 2 friends that graduated with 3rd class, they didn't let that get to them-they went for graduate internships abroad(seek for information and take advantage of them) and believe me 3 years after graduation they were blessed-one works for Ecowas (abuja)as a Talent Manager, the other works for GSK as an Assistant Brand manager. They could only achieve this cause of determination and hard work.
I think a big mistake alotta students make is while in school, they don't engage in extra curricular activities like involving themselves with meaningful student orgs that help develop you professionally & personally (sometimes academically too).
Don't beat yourself over it, personally I think its the least thing you should worry about. To say there's so much hope is an understatement.

bayulll01:
what happen to your proffesion,medical doctor!

Nothing at all, i was "sacked" temporarily (will be resolved soonest) - the other trade has always been my hobby right from year 2 or so. But it is a hobby with good pay if you know what you are doing.

Na wa o, this thread don dey get very interesting. . . .with insults flying up and down. Now what is wrong with social science courses?

Who told you 2.1 gets job in †ђξ market? Guy loose urself...na connection dey put person or get person job irrespective of †ђξ course u studied or †ђξ CGPA u carry just pray and get to knw people like I said connection and prayer will take u places.

Okoya: All my efforts ended with a CGPA 3.49..... what's
my fate in the market? Maybe I should just get a
transcript. This Is so painful. Please I need words
of encouragement.

This is my exact GPA, a point from 2 1. You know what, I got a job the month I passed out from service. Its not really about what's on paper but what you have upstairs. Go out without a depressed look and get the job of your dream. Show whatever interviewer you face, the stuff you are made of.

I am away from my PC, if not I would have uploaded a scan of my result.

Ppl cud rily b silly. 'Wud ur cgpa put food on ur table or guarantee u a good job' 'I made it without setting my foot on any higher institution'...blah blah blah...rubbish! Is it everybody dt wud make it without using dia CGPA?? Dis is hw youths of nowadays re discouraged from hardwrk esp academic-wise since dia re oda shortcuts (scams and 'personal devpt') whereas d literacy and future of d society is at risk. Abroad, many academics are well-paid because der is always a place of research and applying it to improve human existence (wc we fail to do in Naija wen evritin is 'la cram, la pour, la forget')...my point Free d poster joor...it's only him dt knws wat the 3.5 wud mean to him @op...I feel bad for u sha...bur ur lecturers wicked oo...Wish u da best in lyf endeavours..

Very sorry about this. For sure, you must feel this pain! I work in a university. I always go against this kind of grade for students during departmental board meetings for results consideration. I cannot tell you how many students fall into this borderline and how many I have helped! You were just 0.01 point away from 2.1

Any reasonable lecturer will draw attention to your case and talk in your favour. But that is passed now. You can still be all you want if you are bold and intelligent. There are still many jobs(maybe not well paying) that still demands 2.2. Once you have experience on your side, the sky becomes ur matching ground!
If you dropped your email, I will send you list of recruitment agent websites with jobs of 2.2.

@ poster,u nid 2 change ur mindset abt ur condition.Ur cgpa dosnt completely define u,duo it dos 2 an extent..i hav frnds wit similar case and de ar realy mk it big tym in d job mrkt..or shud i name pple dat hv made it in nig wit a 3rd class cgpa?..ist tin ist,change ur mind set,dias a lot out dia 4 u 2 achv,dnt let ur cgpa define u,define it instead

Pls y ar dia so many illiterates in nairaland.Abi animals don de browse?

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crackhouse: mr man make i hear word. Designing skills and repairing skills is not the same my dear. It's like knowing the external without the knowledge of internal aspect. Don't compare HND with Bachelors degree pls.

Don't make urself look ignorant here. Are HND accontancy graduates not better than Bsc accounting graduates in nigeria? Internally and externally they are better than the Bsc graduates; and it has been proven to be statistically significant in favor of the HND graduates. So don't condemn them. And for ur info i have passed thru both schools and i am speaking from the researched truth and not assumption.

Wanted to reply you for some time but I have been a bit busy. I want to tell you that if you have goals, plans and focus, then with your 3.49 CGPA there is a hope and life. The first thing you need to do is to drop the mentality which I presume you have now- One which is defeatist, one which radiates a certain sense of hopelessness and certainly backward. You can not move forward with a backward mentality.

It is important you plan the rest of your life around goals which you know you have gifts for. And a desire for. Have a dream and work towards if. Leverage on your strengths and try to maximise everything you know you have strengths in. I'll give you a brief of my story.

I was in the same shoes as you, slightly the same, some couple of years ago. I had thought the world had ended as I did not get exactly the grade everyone believed I would get (including myself). I felt as if my world had shattered. But God was and is till using that to teach me useful life's lessons. The grade on paper said something different, but I had a first class mentality and I believed I had first class brain as well. I worked with my strengths and my purpose. By the grace of God, I did my service in an engineering multinational which I got there by merit, was retained after that. But I declined the retention, got the opportunity for a masters outside Nigeria, finished successfully. By then I had a first class international mentality. Out there, the western world looks less on paper and more on the stuff you can bring to their organisation. I had an interview/assessment where I was the only black that made it to the finals (with my Nigerian degree that looked unacceptable as you feel now), and at the end of the event, I was given an applause by my fellow interviewees and the assessors. All foreigners. Aside career, there are other useful and impactful things I am also doing because I moved quickly away from a loosing mentality. I would say here that it would never, ever had been possible without the Holy Spirit. Pls am a Christian.

Just to encourage you @poster. If you can afford it go for a foreign masters in a specialist course and ensure you don't get carried away. Gather professional qualifications along the way. Engage in youthful team building activities. Improve your public speaking and presentation skills. Develop useful interview skills. Regardless of your degree class, grab any opportunity you meet with strong open hands. But above all, ensure that you change any defeatist mentality you may have now. You will lose a fight without even entering a flight with a defeatist mentality. Be rest assured that even with a 1st class, you are in a fight. You'll be fine, I know. God bless you.

tanimola22:

@OP
This happened to someone I knew back in the days. Very annoying and depressing.

I would especially stress the 3.49 CGPA on my CV because, although the degree class does not change, a 2.2 of 3.49 is clearly different from a 2.2 of 2.59.

OP, on your job CV, write:

BSc(Hons) Geophysics/whatever you studied
Grade: 3.49/5.00. Let them go figure the class of degree themselves. If you just write 2.2, you will be lumped together with those with 2.52 kind of 2.2.

Many people with boundary 2:1 never include their CGPAs on their CVs. Similarly, many people with boundary 1:1 never include their CGPAs on their CVs. In my view, the people that proudly include their CGPAs on their CVs are those that have well above the minimum required to attain a particular degree class. OP, you fall in the latter category.

All the best mate!

T22.

Good talk. Most people do not know this and they are all categorized as the same. CGPA is very necessary nowadays.

@conyema12 and madridsta007 I humbly request for your contact for some further enquiries if you wouldn't mind(kindly email me any means of contact on tunetuna_1@yahoo.com, BB Pin,Phone number etc) thanks

have a CGPA of 2.78. Currently working in a multinational. Dont let the CGPA stop u. Just apply yourself

If you are talking of hope in terms of getting a job, you have great hope! The only bad grade is 3rd class. If you have not gone for nysc, get a gmat and study it thoroughly during your service. While others are drinking and chasing skirts, marry your gmat. After your service, you need to be online everyday. Most banks employ 2.1 and 2.2, but you have to be online everyday so you dont miss application deadlines. Gatecrash tests. Join job forums like nairaland and others. You will surely get a good job IF you are online everyday. There are jobs out there, but people dont get them because they are not usually aware. I was not online in the last three days, and I missed gatecrashing unity bank test yesterday. I am sad right now. So, information ( knowing when jobs are out and applying) is the key, not your grade.

Dear poster, U strike me as a fooooool. . . . Why r u complaining? So did they tell u that everyone working has 2nd class upper n above? Show what u r made off and have faith in God, a good job will come. . . . See this one complaining of a 3.49

Daftest thread I have read in a while. . . .

Timileyin: when you apply for jobs, put 2.1 and when they request for your transcript, show is to them.. they will pardon you.

Clearly, you know nothing about recruiting and recruitment process generally.

@ OP DO NOT, repeat, DO NOT take heed this advice. Integrity is taken very seriously by recruiters in reputable companies that is.

lestat: sorry but u are a monkey!!!! who told u that CGPA gets jobs in nigeria anymore? be grateful and start searching because u go siddon for house tire if u are hoping only on your CGPA

Please help me tel am ooo. In Nigeria nowadays who gives a hoot! About your Class of degree. I have got many friends & Colleagues who have made 1st class & 2:1 in various professional fields but lack experience most of them are still sitting at home searching for jobs. You had better that start acquiring new skills & get some work experience or even get some Certifications relating to ur field of endeavour.