Can I appeal my diss grade if my supervisor was unhelpful.

I just got my grades back for my diss and I’m so disappointed. I look back at the emails me and my supervisor had and there’s so few compared to my classmates. I got near to no help, as well as the fact that when it was marked I took pieces of my essay and put into my LR, which then said that I didn’t talk about further on in my essay which doesn’t make sense. Would this constitute for grounds of appeal. I can go further into detail but don’t want to make this too long.

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famzy.loves.you

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Original post by Simona6005

I just got my grades back for my diss and I’m so disappointed. I look back at the emails me and my supervisor had and there’s so few compared to my classmates. I got near to no help, as well as the fact that when it was marked I took pieces of my essay and put into my LR, which then said that I didn’t talk about further on in my essay which doesn’t make sense. Would this constitute for grounds of appeal. I can go further into detail but don’t want to make this too long.

Yes, I think you can!

Reply 2

cheadle

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Impossible to advise on what you've written.
What does the module handbook say regarding supervisor input? Did you meet all internal module deadlines for feedback from your supervisor and did your supervisor provide what was required? Additional emails on top of that may be discretionary rather than mandatory.
Not quite sure what you mean by taking stuff from you essay and putting in the LR etc.

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Simona6005

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Original post by cheadle

Impossible to advise on what you've written.
What does the module handbook say regarding supervisor input? Did you meet all internal module deadlines for feedback from your supervisor and did your supervisor provide what was required? Additional emails on top of that may be discretionary rather than mandatory.
Not quite sure what you mean by taking stuff from you essay and putting in the LR etc.

I did meet all my deadlines, my supervisor was supposed to guide me on my structure and advise me on how my diss was supposed to be as she would be the one marking it. I meant that I took information from my diss and put it into the LR so her statement about me not including the same info doesn’t make sense for me

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cheadle

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What is an LR? (I guessed Lit Review).
Can I ask whether your grade has had an impact on your final degree classification? eg knocked you down a banding?
When querying a mark, the frst step is always to go back to the marking tutor for further clarification - have you done that?

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Anonymous #1

You should consult the appeal policy to see if you meet the grounds and criteria to do so.

You could contact the Student Union for their support on your academic work.

Personally I don't see how their engagement with others is a factor as I suspect their support is tailored on a person ny person, case by case basis. However your student support officer can advise.

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Simona6005

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Original post by cheadle

What is an LR? (I guessed Lit Review).
Can I ask whether your grade has had an impact on your final degree classification? eg knocked you down a banding?
When querying a mark, the frst step is always to go back to the marking tutor for further clarification - have you done that?

Yes sorry LR is lit review. I think it has but I wouldn’t know as I haven’t got all my grades back. I haven’t yet as it’s the weekend but the thing is it’s marked by two people, one of them being my supervisor, but as she wasn’t much help would it be better to email the second marker, if due to her not being a big help my grade went down as well. Like I would email her for eg and she’d email a week later.

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Simona6005

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Original post by Anonymous

You should consult the appeal policy to see if you meet the grounds and criteria to do so.
You could contact the Student Union for their support on your academic work.
Personally I don't see how their engagement with others is a factor as I suspect their support is tailored on a person ny person, case by case basis. However your student support officer can advise.

I think to appeal, it’s says you disagree with the mark and your reasons as of why. I don’t think the student union can do anything but it says to write to the person who marked it, and I had two. I think you mean with the supervisor engagement. Regarding that I would disagree because if their is a specific way on how they want it structured or they are meant to give feedback as well which I didn’t get a lot of but I really don’t know.

Reply 8

cheadle

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You say your Supervisor "wasn't much help" - but you will need to be able to qualify that. You will have to be able to demonstrate - with concrete evidence - that you did not recieve the supervision that you should have, and that this directly impacted on your submission. If feeback was given verbally with no written back-up, this will be difficult to prove. If it came in the form of emails/feeback sheets, then you should revisit them to see what feedback you did get.
The other thing to bear in mind is that when a team of tutors supervise and mark, there will inevitably be variation in supervision style, so it's not always helpful to compare what other supervisors did.
If your supervisor did not do their job properly and as a consequence your output suffered, then you could appeal but you would have to be able to demonstrate how they failed to supervise satisfactorily.

Can I appeal my diss grade if my supervisor was unhelpful.

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