Failing a module

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Is it true that you're allowed to fail 10 credits? I've heard that from various sources now and it really encourages me, because I'm worried about one of subsids. I haven't had my essay back and the exam will count for like 70% and since I don't know how the essay went, I have no clue where I'm at and I'm scared I might end up failing. Would it matter, seeing as it's only 10 credits AND a subsid?

Also, what happens if you fail anything else? - Not that I really think I will...

Oh, and it's the overally mark that counts, right? Like, you could fail an exam but if your average in that module is still a pass, it doesn't matter? That's how I understand it anyway...

Thanks!

Reply 1

La Trampa

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basically if you get a soft fail in one of your modules, it can be compensated if you do well in other modules,so your aim should be to do very well so it can be compensated. a soft fail s 35-40%

if you do fail, you can resit the exam but your score will be capped to 40% so if you got 80% in the re-sit it'd be recorded at 40%.

overall you just need 40% to pass a module and move on.

Reply 2

Freckles

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JMG

Scroll down a little more before posting :p:

http://thestudentroom.co.uk/showthread.php?t=391756

I looked at that hread, but it doesn't answer my question, otherwise I would have stuck to it :wink:

Reply 3

LongGone

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January Victim

if you do fail, you can resit the exam but your score will be capped to 40% so if you got 80% in the re-sit it'd be recorded at 40%.

Nope, the grade that would go towards your average is whatever you orginally got. Resits are only for progression!

Reply 4

La Trampa

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i was trying to explain capping,i didn't mean it's what would be recorded eventually.i should have rephrased.

Reply 5

Freckles

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But that's only when you failed before, right?
I'm resitting one of my exams in September because I was ill last week, so surely I can get more than 40% in it?

Reply 6

La Trampa

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i'm not sure about being ill, but i think it's still capped at 40%.ask your tutor

Reply 7

Freckles

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I'm pretty sure that can't be true. That just wouldn't make any sense. But first year doesn't count anyway.. Still can't believe it's true.

Reply 8

LongGone

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If you're ill you usually apply for extenuating circumstance, if they get accepted (which so long as you have a doctors notes or something, they should be), then it won't be capped.

Reply 9

SoundDevastation

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Ive failed a module..

Just by not turning up to the exam. i thought it was at 4.30 when it was actually at 1.30 even hough i checked it like 5 times. :frown:

a lesson to you all READ THE PORTAL again and again!!!

anyway.. im not sure if i can sit the exam or if it will be capped... initial emails say that i have to sit it as a resit as 'a mistake does not count as extenuaing circumstances'. hmm...

i was really hoping to get around 65% this year too... :frown:

Reply 10

kookabura

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Sound devestation - unless you are v.lucky it will count as a resit - so will be capped. :frown:

Not sure what mark you will get recorded though, :confused:

cos as Frances said, its your first mark that normally gets counted, resits are normally only for progression.

Freckles - if you are ill, then you are allowed to apply for extenuating circumstances. If the ECs are approved then you take the exam in the resit period over the summer, but it will count as a first attempt. But, if you havn't got evidence of being ill (doctors note etc) then they may not approve the ECs so it would count as a resit. It all depends on if your ECs are approved or not. If it was a 'genuine' illness, and you have (or can get) a doctors note you should be fine :wink:

. If, like one of my friends, you didn't turn up because you had fictional food posioning :rolleyes:

- and don't have a doctors note, you are stuck with it being a resit.

Reply 11

Freckles

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Well, the thing is that I suffer from really bad migraines and I overdosed on my painkillers on Sunday (accidentally), I then had to go to QMC that night and get an injection and pills to take home with me. I was still feeling really awful on Monday, so I went to Cripps Health Center and he wrote me a note saying that I didn't feel able to take my exams that week (they were on Wednesday and Friday, I ended up taking the one on Friday, but not the other one). I haven't heard anything about EC being accepted or not, but I handed in the note on Tuesday, a day before the exam, and everything seemed fine. So I guess there's no need to worry?

Reply 12

Freckles

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SoundDevastation

Ive failed a module..

Just by not turning up to the exam. i thought it was at 4.30 when it was actually at 1.30 even hough i checked it like 5 times. :frown:

a lesson to you all READ THE PORTAL again and again!!!

anyway.. im not sure if i can sit the exam or if it will be capped... initial emails say that i have to sit it as a resit as 'a mistake does not count as extenuaing circumstances'. hmm...

i was really hoping to get around 65% this year too... :frown:

But even if it gets capped, you can still pass the module, can't you?
Like, with the one I'm taking in September now, I only need 18% in order to pass the module. So unless you need more than 40 to pass yours, you might still be fine? Or am I completely mistaken?
Are you a first year? Because if so, it doesn't really matter.. Although it still sucks, obviously...

Reply 13

SoundDevastation

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nah im a second year... ill fail the module as the exam was worth 60%, so im looking at an overall module score of 25-30% i think. If thats the mark thats carried through anyway theres no point in me sitting the exam really.. as i know my average will still be above 40%.

i just threw away 3% of my degree. STUPID STUPID STUPID!!

Reply 14

LongGone

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I had a similar problem last year, I stayed up waaay to late revising for one of my exams and then either slept though my alarm or my alarm didn't go off! Either way, I didn't make it to the exam! (I'm now super paranoid and get like 3 people to call me before a 9am exam)

It will pretty much definitly count as a resit, but you may not have to retake it. I ended up with 33 on that module, it did drag my average down from about 64/65 to 59.6, but I didn't actually have to do it thankfully.

My personal tutor said at the time that if it was up to him he would have let me take it as a first sit, because it's not like I actually failed it. But sadly it wasn't, meh.

Reply 15

Freckles

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So you are actually allowed to fail a module then?

Reply 16

La Trampa

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everyone gets resits i assume

Reply 17

alex-hs

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JMG

Rather than creating my own topic for this, I thought I'd just hijack this one briefly (sorry Freckles!) - but the question is this:

If you fail to meet the criteria for passing the year, are you always given the option of resits, or do some people get denied the chance and are automatically kicked out?

if you can be bothered reading through it, the university progression regulations are here.

Reply 18

alex-hs

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JMG

Cheers Alex, just what I was looking for.

p.s. 1st question on DBS sucked.

the whole thing was ****ing terrible... should have started revising before last night really...

Reply 19

Freckles

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So what happens when you actually fail a module then? As in a module, not just an exam. That was my original question anyway lol Are you still allowed to continue your studies or do you HAVE to pass everything?

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