0 a degree given to university or college students who have passed their exams, but not well enough to get an honours degree --
1 a degree course that is designed to be finished in three years instead of the usual four --
Men with third-class honours or pass degrees in chemistry or one of the biological sciences and men with ordinary or general degrees in science may now be deferred.
I remember that in my day a very large percentage of those who obtained degrees obtained what are called pass degrees.
All other graduates are awarded a pass degree.
He did not attend his exams and was given a pass degree in history.
The college threatened to fail her, but finally gave her a pass degree.
The licentiate membership is equivalent to a pass degree in chemistry, and the graduate membership is equivalent to an honours degree in chemistry.
A pass degree of one university is very different from a pass degree of another; an honours degree is vastly different again.
I believe that the same principle should apply to, say, a man with a pass degree who is doing sixth form work.
