Does resitting a year cancel my previous grade?

A bit of background.

I attended Uni and spent very little time attending lectures but at the end of the year scraped through with a pass. I was then invited to speak to one of my lecturers who told me that I could continue on to second year or, given my lack of actual subject knowledge, could resit my first year. As I had barely understood most of the work from the last couple months I chose to resit first year but ended up leaving after another 4/5 months for other reasons.

So my question.
Does the initial first year pass still exist? I still completed (just) enough course work and tests my first time around so do I still have that grade or did I throw it all away when I decided to resit

(edited 11 months ago)

Reply 1

threeportdrift

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Original post by jaczaja

You still 'have it', but what use it is for anything is debatable. First year uni grades often don't have much value, ie don't rate for any separate award, and don't carry weight for the final degree grade. so 'having it', may or may not be of use. For CV purposes, you can say you passed your first year though.

Reply 2

martin7

Original post by threeportdrift

First year uni grades often don't have much value, ie don't rate for any separate award

At some universities successful completion of your first year would allow an exit award of a Certificate of Higher Education (CertHE).

It might be necessary for OP to approach the university concerned and explicitly ask for that to be awarded -- and it would depend on what the university's regulations say on the subject.