The Geography faculty gave first year students incorrect marks and classing information yesterday (30/6) in a series of mistakes one student called “extremely mentally taxing”.

The faculty emailed students hours after their results were released on CamSIS, the Cambridge exam results website, to say their grades had been incorrectly calculated.

The email explained that while the mark students are meant to receive is made up of relative success across three papers, the grades released on CamSIS was an average. 

The department said that they were “running out of time” to publish the correct results, and that correct results would be available on CamSIS today.

One first year Geography student told Varsity that the “amount of stress and pressure” of this decision has been “extremely mentally taxing”. They explained that the University ranking system was already a cause of distress, and that they feared their ranking would go down just as they had “managed to come to terms” with the original result.

Dr David Nally, the chair of examiners for first year papers, apologised for the “error” and “inconvenience” this has caused for students.