Miserably failed a class and didn't achieve 2:1 - is my FT offer cooked?

Hello monkes, messed up a bunch of tests on the last year of my master's because life happened (no not party rocking, although I wish). I have a FT offer to join a BB/EB in M&A, but am scared that once they do background check they'll ding me for my grades.

Do they actually care about the 2:1 ranking? Does it help if I dominated my bachelor's and messed up my master's or they don't care?

Thank you and godspeed

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Most likely cooked but there’s been cases of people being let through regardless. V much a case by case thing

 

I don’t Even remember it being listed as a requirement during application process - do you think it is always implicitly required?

 

Had a return from a BB that explicitly stated a 2:1 in the contract. Have friends that haven’t had the grade req but have been told they’d lose the full time if they didn’t get a 2:1. Outside of this I don’t know 

 

Think if you do a master the 2:1 requirement applies to the bachelor only

 

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