[WhyMe]

Hi all!

I am currently sitting for my masters' re-sits at LSE. I don't want to reveal the name of the course, but it is related to statistics and finance.

Now I don't want to toot my own horn, but I've always been good at academics! I topped school, I topped my undergrad (got a distinction) and I worked my ASS off for my masters degree. Despite my best efforts, due to one paper being messed up, I was not allowed to graduate. This was completely devastating for me

Recently I have been going through a medical and personal crisis. I've been really unwell and there have been some very serious family problems that have had me terribly worried. This had affected my performance in my re sits and I am terrified that they will not let me graduate this time as well and my entire academic career will crash

I know I could have done much better in the exams but I really did study enough to pass and I think it will be very,very, very unfair if I am sent off without a degree.

I just wanted to ask people what their general perception of LSE's attitude towards re sit candidates is? Are they a bit more lenient with the marking etc. for re sit candidates? Or harsher, since it is a second chance?
Do they fail students in re sits without a second thought or is it something they would do only for those who literally wrote nothing of value?
It just seems very harsh IMO to not award a degree to someone after they've spent all that money and slogged for two years.

Any opinions? Any similar experiences? Do you know someone who failed re sits or is that very rare? I am so tense!!!!

[WhyMe]

Bump.

[Deus]

I'm going to be honest, I reckon it's quite rare for people resitting exams to not succeed. However, they probably won't be lenient as they will suspect that you've had a year to prepare for this one exam.

I wouldn't worry about it for now. I assume you've written the exam?

[WhyMe]

(Original post by Deus)
I'm going to be honest, I reckon it's quite rare for people resitting exams to not succeed. However, they probably won't be lenient as they will suspect that you've had a year to prepare for this one exam.

I wouldn't worry about it for now. I assume you've written the exam?

Hi there! Thanks for being honest.

I actually had 3 exams to re sit. When you get very low marks in one, they make you re do all those you didn't do well in.

I've written all three, and they didn't go well

[Deus]

Did you honestly study for them? The trouble is that the university will assume you've had 12 months to prepare for these three exams, so I suppose all you can do is wait and hope...

[WhyMe]

I did study. Of course I did!

The trouble is, we didn't actually have 12 months to study. The results were out in november, last year. I didn't know for sure whether I'd have to re sit or not until January because I appealed my results.

The exams began in April, so I really just had about 3 1/2 months or so.

[Swayum]

Did you let them know about your health + personal issues before taking the exam? They should take into account mitigating circumstances and stuff in general.

If you didn't, go and talk to your academic adviser about it now, s/he'll be able to guide you as to what to do.

As far as "do they really fail resit candidates?" goes, I would expect them to treat resit and non-resit candidates the same. The exams are usually marked by the lecturers, so I guess it depends on how nice your lecturer is (I know one lecturer told me that he spends ages going through the exam script trying to award people 1 or 2 marks here or there if someone's failing but close to the pass boundary).

Sorry to hear about it though, hope things work out

[aftrglw]

(Original post by Swayum)
Did you let them know about your health + personal issues before taking the exam? They should take into account mitigating circumstances and stuff in general.

If you didn't, go and talk to your academic adviser about it now, s/he'll be able to guide you as to what to do.

As far as "do they really fail resit candidates?" goes, I would expect them to treat resit and non-resit candidates the same. The exams are usually marked by the lecturers, so I guess it depends on how nice your lecturer is (I know one lecturer told me that he spends ages going through the exam script trying to award people 1 or 2 marks here or there if someone's failing but close to the pass boundary).

Sorry to hear about it though, hope things work out

As for informing them about extenuating circumstances, I think you have to do it within 5 day and they're pretty strict about it. That said, it's still worth trying I suppose, cuz she's got nothing to lose...