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What is the likelihood that I'll fail my degree?

I know there are different uni reps so I'm hoping someone can reassure me because I've had a really hard time at the uni and I've spoken to SDW and have been getting support from my tutors but my last four assignments I've failed and I have to re-sit and I've never failed academically before and I'm genuinely scared that I'm going to fail my degree because I don't see how I'm going to pass my re-sits so I wanted to ask, is that likely or do tutors really help to make sure people don't fail? What proportion of people do end up failing courses? Does it happen or does everyone manage to pass? I was on an average of a 2:1 until these fails and as long as I pass my re-sits, I will pass my degree overall I'm just scared that I won't be able to even do that
Tutors don't 100% make sure that anyone don't fail. About a certain percentage of a cohort would get third class and lower each year. If I'm not mistaken, in my year (different university than Liverpool) about almost 50% to 40% were awarded 2:2s and lower?

If it reassures you, I have scored as low as 29% in my undergraduate modules and were never afforded any resits for them since I was a final year student at the time. I've averaged a-okay previously, and I managed to pull my performance to as high as 80% in three months to save my undergraduate degree with an upper-second.

It is possible to not fail at all and do remarkably well if you know how to fix and vastly improve your current performance, especially since you have said that you have averaged 2:1s prior.

Thing with university is that very rarely academic tutors would come as close as helpful regular school teachers. You need to be able to sit down and identify what are causing you to score these low marks in the first place. That's the bulk of the work, in my opinion. On top of that, you can (and should) engage with your university's available resources as much as you can e.g. library sessions on academic skills (i.e. how to research, how to cite, classes on critical analysis, demystifying exams, etc.), try counselling and mental health workshops if you can, study in the library as often as you can, and so on.

Personally, what have immensely helped at the time were my university's mental health workshops, any academic workshops, attending lectures regularly, and participating in formative exams. I also fully utilised the general cohort feedback in those formatives to understand and follow the format that the lecturers used.

It's a good thing that you are given the opportunity to resit, and I think that you can do them well.

Reason why I typed this much is because people needs the reminder from time to time, so sorry if it's too lengthy.
Liverpool Hope University
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Liverpool
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Original post by wifd149
Tutors don't 100% make sure that anyone don't fail. About a certain percentage of a cohort would get third class and lower each year. If I'm not mistaken, in my year (different university than Liverpool) about almost 50% to 40% were awarded 2:2s and lower?

If it reassures you, I have scored as low as 29% in my undergraduate modules and were never afforded any resits for them since I was a final year student at the time. I've averaged a-okay previously, and I managed to pull my performance to as high as 80% in three months to save my undergraduate degree with an upper-second.

It is possible to not fail at all and do remarkably well if you know how to fix and vastly improve your current performance, especially since you have said that you have averaged 2:1s prior.

Thing with university is that very rarely academic tutors would come as close as helpful regular school teachers. You need to be able to sit down and identify what are causing you to score these low marks in the first place. That's the bulk of the work, in my opinion. On top of that, you can (and should) engage with your university's available resources as much as you can e.g. library sessions on academic skills (i.e. how to research, how to cite, classes on critical analysis, demystifying exams, etc.), try counselling and mental health workshops if you can, study in the library as often as you can, and so on.

Personally, what have immensely helped at the time were my university's mental health workshops, any academic workshops, attending lectures regularly, and participating in formative exams. I also fully utilised the general cohort feedback in those formatives to understand and follow the format that the lecturers used.

It's a good thing that you are given the opportunity to resit, and I think that you can do them well.

Reason why I typed this much is because people needs the reminder from time to time, so sorry if it's too lengthy.

thank you so much for your response, i really appreciate it

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