Hi all,
I see your point with the deadline for mitigating circumstances. The fact is I signed that form in tears at the time. My friend had just passed away and I didn't think to read the form correctly. I was not made aware of a soon approaching deadline at the time. The funeral (which the booklet was my evidence) took place exactly a week before the deadline. His family were even considering delaying it by two weeks as they still did not have a cause of death, but just wanted peace on the matter so decided then. If that had happened i definitely wouldn't have had the evidence in on time.
It's more the fact that despite me seeking advice from the markers and other academics about what to improve and doing all of that and then some, my grade did not rise from the 38, if I literally got the wrong end of the stick then I have been misguided. I even sought advice from my friend and we did very similar structures to our dissertations. Yet she got a 1st.
What really annoys me is that I have put 120% of my effort into work this year, did well in all my other grades but tripped up at this one and receive absolutely no sympathy it seems from the university. Not even to increase it by two tiny marks just to mean a pass would have meant the world to me. And the two main individuals that bullied me are walking away happily with a 2:1 and a 2:2 at this graduation and I am stuck with most likely paying to retake and repeating something i believe i did fairly well in to get a mediocre grade or drop out with a horrendous one.
I honestly feel like i might as well had gone to Ibiza on holiday and destroyed my liver with alcohol instead of doing the retake as I am at exactly the same stage now as if i had. Like nothing I did to rectify the situation mattered to them.
But yes if i retake i must start from scratch on a whole new project for my dissertation, in the knowledge that it will only amount to a maximum of 40% and pay for the privilege of just scraping a 2:2 overall after another year of working with a university that i don't believe supports me as a student.