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I must say that I am rather glad the degree I did at a Scottish university was based mainly of 4th year exams, with an element of 3rd year exams and coursework.

The idea of a averaging all of your work across your course would have been a disaster for me as I did rather poorly in year 1, scraped through year 2 and did spectacularly well in years 3 and 4.




I'm not sure about Oxford but certainly for Cambridge you aren't graded overall, instead you get a grade for each part of the tripos[1] (two parts).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos


Yes but you generally treat your degree as being graded by whatever you got in part II


In Oxford, at least for Physics, your grades from every year (except possibly the first) count, but they are heavily weighted towards later years.




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