[kwhitefoot]

A lot of bachelor's degrees these days are awarded on the basis of modules with no finals. For instance when I did a course on C# a few years ago in Norway that was worth 6 points (I got full marks :-) ). If I had done another 29 modules of similar difficulty I would have got 180 points and been awarded a BSc in Computer Science.

It's quite different from the way it was when I studied physics in the 1970s when only the final counted. Annual exams only determined whether one was allowed to continue but had no effect on the class of degree that was awarded.