The Tompkins Table is an annual ranking containing a list of Cambridge University Colleges for the appearance of their undergraduate students in the exam that year. Two colleges - Darwin and Clare Hall - have no undergraduate students and are therefore not featured on the list. It was invented in 1981 by Peter Tompkins, then a third-year undergraduate mathematics student at Trinity College, who until 2015 arrange it annually for the Independent newspaper. In 2016, it was published by Varsity, a student newspaper of Cambridge University. This is not an official table of Cambridge University. Assuming it is based on a published Class List, it will not take into account students who are not candidates for an Honors degree, or those who fail to get a degree, or those whose board names have decided to be cut out of public view.
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Initially, it only included year-end exams but since 1997 has covered all the exams whose value is allocated. The table allocates 5 points for the First Class title, 3 points for Upper Second (also known as 2.i), 2 points for Lower Second (a 2.ii), 1 point for Third and no points for someone only given allowance to Degree Ordinary. Scores in each subject were then weighed to the general average, to avoid bias towards colleges with a higher proportion of students entering for subjects receiving higher mean scores. The result is expressed as a percentage of the number of points available. The difference between the highest places on the table is usually very small. In the past seven years Trinity College has consistently claimed the best results: Trinity topped the standings in 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011 and 2009, and the second in 2010. Unofficial ratings passed by the University. Since Darwin College and Clare Hall only accept graduate students, they are not included in this bachelor's degree. Some college adults, including St Edmund's College, Hughes Hall, Lucy Cavendish College, and Wolfson College, tend to perform relatively poorly on the Tompkins Table, but have more graduate students than undergraduate students, so the results here are not representative of the majority of the student population from each of these colleges.
Most colleges fall within the 10% range of each other therefore the table should be taken lightly with regard to determining the academic position of the college.
Below is a table for 2017:
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Baxter table
Certain colleges of the University of Cambridge commissioned a similar table called Table Baxter from Martin Baxter who was a financial analyst specializing in mathematical modeling and who developed the Electoral Calculus website. Baxter tables rank undergraduate students by year and subject them separately and sent in July or August. [1] They are compiled using a published Class List, which excludes students who are not candidates for the Honors degree, or those who fail to obtain a degree, or those whose names have been determined by the Council must be deducted from the public view. [2] They are intended for internal use of Colleges but not Universities, which are distributed to Senior Tutors of Colleges [3], with full tables not published publicly or outside the College, and some students are unaware of their whereabouts. However, the College ratings in the Baxter Table are sometimes referred to by the College in the publicly available literature, [4] [5] and the methodology used to construct the Baxter Tables is also available. There is also a 'value-added' table, which shows how student outcomes increase during their years at Cambridge, and are intended to provide a measure or an indication of the quality of teaching at different universities. [6] However, with small sample sizes, the amount of meaningful information that can be extracted from this table is questionable. [7]
Norrington Table
The appropriate rating for the Oxford college is the Norrington Table. Since 1986, when the University of Oxford adopted a separate second class degree, the Norrington Table has adopted the same assessment method as the Tompkins Table, but without the weight attached to the value of individual subjects.
See also
- Norrington Table
References
External links
- Tompkins Table 2015
- Tompkins Table 2014
- Tompkins Table 2013
- Tompkins Table 2000-2007
- Tompkins Table 1999
- Tompkins Tables 1997, 1998
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