Mark: outstanding (as in: not yet known)
I’m updating my tabular CV for an application and I’d like to include my master thesis even though it’s not yet finished (soon!) and marked. So I’d like to write that the mark is still outstanding but I fear that if I simply write
Master thesis: ‹topic›
Supervisor: ‹supervisor›
Mark: outstanding
this could be misconstrued to mean that the result is in, and that it’s outstanding (as in: spectacular). What can I say here instead? It should be as salient as possible, single word preferred. I specifically want to avoid writing half a sentence.
Solution 1:
I would go for “pending” (or, longer, “still pending”).
Solution 2:
I agree, using outstanding
here is quite ambiguous.
I would use Awaiting mark
or Pending mark
- they are both clear and direct. (You can alternatively substitute mark
with grade
.)
Solution 3:
I think something such as 'Awaiting Results' would be more appropriate.
Solution 4:
To be received, or to be decided?
This fits into a pattern of common phrases: to be confirmed, to be announced, to be decided, which are standard enough that in many institutions they are given just as tbc, tba, tbd. To be received is less standard than these, but should be well-understood since it clearly invokes this well-known template.