failed 2 modules in first year law
hi guys,
i’ve gotten my results and have failed 2 modules, one from semester 1 and the other from semester 2. what is annoying is they are both 24 hour open book assignments. i have to resit at the end of august and my mark is capped at 40. is it likely if i fail again, i will have to resit the whole year again or will i just have to retake those modules whilst continuing into second year.
i’ve gotten my results and have failed 2 modules, one from semester 1 and the other from semester 2. what is annoying is they are both 24 hour open book assignments. i have to resit at the end of august and my mark is capped at 40. is it likely if i fail again, i will have to resit the whole year again or will i just have to retake those modules whilst continuing into second year.
Reply 1
Original post
by Anonymoushi guys,
i’ve gotten my results and have failed 2 modules, one from semester 1 and the other from semester 2. what is annoying is they are both 24 hour open book assignments. i have to resit at the end of august and my mark is capped at 40. is it likely if i fail again, i will have to resit the whole year again or will i just have to retake those modules whilst continuing into second year.
i’ve gotten my results and have failed 2 modules, one from semester 1 and the other from semester 2. what is annoying is they are both 24 hour open book assignments. i have to resit at the end of august and my mark is capped at 40. is it likely if i fail again, i will have to resit the whole year again or will i just have to retake those modules whilst continuing into second year.
That depends on your degree regulations.
Reply 2
Hi there,
Firstly, well done for getting through your first year at University! Moving to a university, starting student life, and keeping up with your studies is incredibly hard, and that is an achievement in itself.
The re-sit policies will depend on the university that you are studying at. Without knowing your Uni's policies for your course I can't guarantee this, but for the majority of courses and universities, your 1st year grades do not count towards your overall grade. This means that the cap on the resits won't impact your degree grade.
I would imagine that yes, if you are unsuccessful in the resits, you will probably be asked to re-sit the year, as it isn't very common to re-take modules from 1st year into 2nd year. However, that's ok! Quite a few students re-sit their 1st year, and then go on to perform even better in 2nd and 3rd year because of their extra foundational knowledge gained from re-taking 1st year.
Keep your chin up! You've got this, all the best for your resits.
Joshua
2nd Yr Student Rep
Firstly, well done for getting through your first year at University! Moving to a university, starting student life, and keeping up with your studies is incredibly hard, and that is an achievement in itself.
The re-sit policies will depend on the university that you are studying at. Without knowing your Uni's policies for your course I can't guarantee this, but for the majority of courses and universities, your 1st year grades do not count towards your overall grade. This means that the cap on the resits won't impact your degree grade.
I would imagine that yes, if you are unsuccessful in the resits, you will probably be asked to re-sit the year, as it isn't very common to re-take modules from 1st year into 2nd year. However, that's ok! Quite a few students re-sit their 1st year, and then go on to perform even better in 2nd and 3rd year because of their extra foundational knowledge gained from re-taking 1st year.
Keep your chin up! You've got this, all the best for your resits.
Joshua
2nd Yr Student Rep
Reply 3
Original post
by Anonymoushi guys,
i’ve gotten my results and have failed 2 modules, one from semester 1 and the other from semester 2. what is annoying is they are both 24 hour open book assignments. i have to resit at the end of august and my mark is capped at 40. is it likely if i fail again, i will have to resit the whole year again or will i just have to retake those modules whilst continuing into second year.
i’ve gotten my results and have failed 2 modules, one from semester 1 and the other from semester 2. what is annoying is they are both 24 hour open book assignments. i have to resit at the end of august and my mark is capped at 40. is it likely if i fail again, i will have to resit the whole year again or will i just have to retake those modules whilst continuing into second year.
Hi there,
Sorry to hear you failed your modules. It us good that you would be able to retake the assessments for a chance to progess unto the next year.
Most universities usually would require you achieve a certain amount of credits to progress to the next year and this would make it difficult to progress to the next year.
It is important however to ask the university staff as they would be more informed on this. Whether you fail may also be based on if the modules you are retaking were 100% of the entire modules grade which a 40% grade cap would make impossible to pass.
Therefore, if it may be about 60% of the module grade, the 40% cap would be in conjunction with whatever grade you achieved in the other assessments for the module. Which would determine whether you pass or fail.
I hope that helped to clear things up a bit, I would recommend talking to a member of your law school and finding out more definitive answers.
Good luck with your exams,
Lancaster University Student Ambassador,
Glory.
Quick Reply
Related discussions
- Failed a core module in second year LLB
- Has anyone who failed a law module, still been successful in their career?
- Please help!!!!
- Failing Two Resits at Glasgow university
- How to get from a 2:2 to 1st in Final Year
- LLB (UOL)
- Been Removed from my course due to failing my resist. Does anyone have any advice!!!
- I'm concerned about failing
- how hard it it to get sheffield university to allow you to repeat the year
- QMUL resit??
- academic appeal at uni help
- Am I done for?
- failed modules
- Surrey uni resit
- could i get a condoned fail at kcl?
- Nursing
- I’ve failed two modules quite miserably
- Failed a module
- Third attempt at an exam to progress?
- Maintenance Loans for Full time Course but Part-Time Attendance.
Latest
Trending
Last reply 2 months ago
Laptop vs iPad for universityLast reply 7 months ago
living away from home for university- pros / cons, advice ?University life
15
15
Last reply 8 months ago
Should I Appeal an Academic Misconduct Finding at a UK University?Last reply 8 months ago
Will I be an outcast in uni if I don’t use social media?University life
14
13
How The Student Room is moderated
To keep The Student Room safe for everyone, we moderate posts that are added to the site.
