3 decisions, appeal grade, redo year or leave with a 3rd no honours...

I'm worried they either didn't mark the resubmission or didn't accept my mitigating circumstances.

was so busy forgot to hand in mitigating circumstances evidence until after the grades came out. my result was chairs decision: waiting on results. i had no idea there was a cut off date a week after my friends funeral to hand in evidence for it.

While I sympathise with (and relate to) your issues, you have missed the deadline for evidence so that is why nothing has changed.

Realistically, you cannot appeal (unless the university are generous and accept your late evidence, which it doesn't seem they are willing to do). Leaving with a 3rd is career suicide and far more of a waste of money than re-doing the year and getting a 2.2. Just to clarify - you cannot get a 3rd with no honours. The grades are as so: 1st, 2.1, 2.2, 3rd, Pass (i.e. no honours), Fail.

Can you actually resit the final year?

Sorry, I didn't mean re-sitting the entire year, I meant re-enrolling for final year in order to repeat the dissertation she failed to get a 2.2 overall.

Edit: The OP may also want to check that re-sitting final year modules does not mean that her degree classification is capped at Pass/Ordinary (no honours) because that is the rule at some universities.

I was just wondering what she can do. I don't know what the rules are - my job doesn't stretch beyond getting students into university. I didn't realise there were any ways of salvaging your final grade and I'm interested in what the options are. Reading a lot of postgrad threads seems to suggest finals mean final.

You can re-sit failed final year modules but (at my university) you will only come out with an Ordinary degree. The OP seems to believe that her re-sit will just be capped at 40% and still allow for an honours degree so maybe that is the case at her university.

Thank you. That's interesting. Does one failed module capped at 40% tip the balance? I mean, if you passed all the others but failed one, that one carries more weight than all others combined? That's harsh. It's 33 years since I graduated and we were still chipping our exam papers out on stone tablets then, so all this is pretty alien to me.

If you pass all your modules except one then, depending on the university, you will either get an Ordinary degree (as you need all 360 credits for an honours degree) or you may still be allowed an honours degree if you have passed enough credits for the university to ignore the failed credits, e.g. 330/360.

Hi all,
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.

If you have only completed three years in eduction you will have one years additions funding left. So no need to pay anything to retake the year. If you have already used four years you can apply for something called compelling personal reasons (CPR) which due to your health AND bearevement reasons you are very likely to get, which takes the funding spent on your third year and allows you to use it to retake the year again. Call the student finance company. I have am going through the same thing as I took time out due to anxiety reasons.