Failing degree - is it worth returning next year?
do law with French at Oxford and ive failed my year abroad lol. not looking hopeful for next year. should I even go ack or what? am I just low key wasting my time?
Reply 1
Is this for Law and a language? It won’t be easy to go back, but if you don’t all the effort thus far will be wasted, and you will feel pretty grim about yourself, for a long time. There basically isn’t an easy or happy option here, so you should take the better of the two evils and go back.
But make sure you ask for support all along the line. Your staff should be eager to provide it. By selecting you they have committed to getting you through the course. So work with them and just get your head down and grind your way through.
I teach at a RG university and feel very strongly that once we have admitted a student, our role is to get that student through the course. I am far from alone in this, and you will certainly have access to a tutor who will see things this way too.
Also, there are so many welfare structures in Oxford, so lean on them.
You are quite capable of passing the course. It’ll be a big volume of work, but the requirements are very doable in terms of level. That’s just how the system works: you deal with complex concepts but are expected to produce work at a considerably lower conceptual level. You just have to plough through it.
If the language is the problem, can you drop it? You can still put it on your CV as 2 years post A Level. This is how it would work at my university.
You have made it this far. One big last push and you are through.
But make sure you ask for support all along the line. Your staff should be eager to provide it. By selecting you they have committed to getting you through the course. So work with them and just get your head down and grind your way through.
I teach at a RG university and feel very strongly that once we have admitted a student, our role is to get that student through the course. I am far from alone in this, and you will certainly have access to a tutor who will see things this way too.
Also, there are so many welfare structures in Oxford, so lean on them.
You are quite capable of passing the course. It’ll be a big volume of work, but the requirements are very doable in terms of level. That’s just how the system works: you deal with complex concepts but are expected to produce work at a considerably lower conceptual level. You just have to plough through it.
If the language is the problem, can you drop it? You can still put it on your CV as 2 years post A Level. This is how it would work at my university.
You have made it this far. One big last push and you are through.
Reply 2
Are you the same poster who posted a few months ago about deciding to send your year abroad not studying? I think that you've posted here recently about not telling prospective employers that you took a year abroad and failed that component of your course.
What do you want from your course? If you think that you would enjoy your final year and think that finishing the course would be useful to you, then return to Oxford in the autumn. If you think that you would not enjoy yourself by doing so, don't. Obtaining a degree is optional, although at least initially you may reduce your work opportunities in some sectors if you don't obtain a degree.
Talk to your college. Perhaps consider rusticating.
What do you want from your course? If you think that you would enjoy your final year and think that finishing the course would be useful to you, then return to Oxford in the autumn. If you think that you would not enjoy yourself by doing so, don't. Obtaining a degree is optional, although at least initially you may reduce your work opportunities in some sectors if you don't obtain a degree.
Talk to your college. Perhaps consider rusticating.
Reply 3
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by Stiffy ByngAre you the same poster who posted a few months ago about deciding to send your year abroad not studying? I think that you've posted here recently about not telling prospective employers that you took a year abroad and failed that component of your course.
What do you want from your course? If you think that you would enjoy your final year and think that finishing the course would be useful to you, then return to Oxford in the autumn. If you think that you would not enjoy yourself by doing so, don't. Obtaining a degree is optional, although at least initially you may reduce your work opportunities in some sectors if you don't obtain a degree.
Talk to your college. Perhaps consider rusticating.
What do you want from your course? If you think that you would enjoy your final year and think that finishing the course would be useful to you, then return to Oxford in the autumn. If you think that you would not enjoy yourself by doing so, don't. Obtaining a degree is optional, although at least initially you may reduce your work opportunities in some sectors if you don't obtain a degree.
Talk to your college. Perhaps consider rusticating.
If I rusticate I would've took 5 years on a 3 year degree (because I failed the year abroad lol), but I don't want to just drop out when Oxford was my dream uni for my whole life, but I definitely won't enjoy next year and probably won't even get good grades
Reply 4
So why not leave now?
Reply 5
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by Stiffy ByngSo why not leave now?
because I got into my dream uni and was doing well in first and second year and I don't want to just accept failure and debt and drop out with nothing to show for it
Reply 6
Well if you don't want to leave you'll have to go back. This thread therefore appears redundant.
Reply 7
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by Stiffy ByngWell if you don't want to leave you'll have to go back. This thread therefore appears redundant.
yeah I was very drunk when I wrote it, don't ask me what the point of it is lol
Reply 8
You have started threads about your unhappiness ever since you started at Oxford. Have you sought professional help for your problems? Going back to Oxford might not be a good idea.
Reply 9
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by Stiffy ByngYou have started threads about your unhappiness ever since you started at Oxford. Have you sought professional help for your problems? Going back to Oxford might not be a good idea.
Oxford was my dream uni and I worked so hard to get, I knew I probably wouldn't enjoy it that much and likely wouldn't make any friends, which I didn't, but in first or second year I mainly got 2:1s and a couple firsts and tutors said I was on track for a high 2:1 or first so I stuck at it. I still don't want to just drop out and accept working retail and living with my parents for the rest of my life, I may as well go back next year and fail because it's no worse to fail a degree than drop out of one, and there's a chance I might pull it back and get a good grade
Reply 10
OK, but talk to your college about support for your mental health and try not to drink too much. Best of luck.
Reply 11
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by Username123abOxford was my dream uni and I worked so hard to get, I knew I probably wouldn't enjoy it that much and likely wouldn't make any friends, which I didn't, but in first or second year I mainly got 2:1s and a couple firsts and tutors said I was on track for a high 2:1 or first so I stuck at it. I still don't want to just drop out and accept working retail and living with my parents for the rest of my life, I may as well go back next year and fail because it's no worse to fail a degree than drop out of one, and there's a chance I might pull it back and get a good grade
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