Writing an academic thesis is an important and complex task and the thesis grade should reflect students’ academic competences. The present study aims, firstly, at exploring how Bachelor’s and Master’s students self-evaluate their academic competences and approaches to learning and whether their evaluations differ from each other. In addition, the study aims at investigating how academic competences and approaches to learning are related to the thesis grades of Bachelor’s and Master’s students. The data consisted of 1 019 Bachelor's and Master’s students, all of whom completed an electronic questionnaire at the time of their graduation. The results imply that Bachelor’s students already possess a considerable number of academic competences. It seems that students’ organising skills should be supported, especially in the Bachelor phase. Finally, the present study raises the question of what the thesis grade actually measures if its relations to both learning processes and academic competences are questionable.

撰写学术论文是一项重要且复杂的任务，论文等级应反映学生的学术能力。本研究首先旨在探讨学士和硕士生如何自我评价他们的学术能力和学习方法，以及他们的评价是否彼此不同。此外，本研究旨在调查学业能力和学习方法与学士和硕士生的论文成绩之间的关系。数据包括1019名学士和硕士学位学生，他们全部在毕业时填写了电子问卷。结果表明，学士学位的学生已经具备相当数量的学术能力。似乎应该支持学生的组织技能，尤其是在学士阶段。最后，