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Plez help idk wht to do

In January I failed an exam (1) but was granted a reset. In June I found out that i failed my other exam (2) and the board of examiners told me to withdraw from the course. I thought I would still be allowed to resit the exam from January but when the resit timetables were given out I didn't recieve one and was told my university account was shutting down which I thought was understandable since they told me to withdraw from the course. Yesterday I submitted an appeal against the fail and withdraw decision and to allow me to resit the year in full instead and one of the points I brought up was that they said I could resit my Januaryexam but didn't give me the opportunity to. Now today at 5pm I recieved an email giving me the timetable for the exam. However, the exam (which is in 2 parts 3 hour exam and 2 hour exam) is in 5 days on the same day. The course is medicine and with the amount of content I know that I won't be able to learn everything in that time and it seems like they just read the appeal and quickly just added me on to take it. I stopped revising when they didn't give me the resit timetable so i'm very unprepared and I think failing this resit will negatively affect my appeal aswell. I don't know what to do now.

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by Whtze
In January I failed an exam (1) but was granted a reset. In June I found out that i failed my other exam (2) and the board of examiners told me to withdraw from the course. I thought I would still be allowed to resit the exam from January but when the resit timetables were given out I didn't recieve one and was told my university account was shutting down which I thought was understandable since they told me to withdraw from the course. Yesterday I submitted an appeal against the fail and withdraw decision and to allow me to resit the year in full instead and one of the points I brought up was that they said I could resit my Januaryexam but didn't give me the opportunity to. Now today at 5pm I recieved an email giving me the timetable for the exam. However, the exam (which is in 2 parts 3 hour exam and 2 hour exam) is in 5 days on the same day. The course is medicine and with the amount of content I know that I won't be able to learn everything in that time and it seems like they just read the appeal and quickly just added me on to take it. I stopped revising when they didn't give me the resit timetable so i'm very unprepared and I think failing this resit will negatively affect my appeal aswell. I don't know what to do now.

Might depend which year you are in and whether you think you can pass all the other exams that you will need to do? Do you have a plan B for if you are still asked to leave the course?

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by Flamingo10
Might depend which year you are in and whether you think you can pass all the other exams that you will need to do? Do you have a plan B for if you are still asked to leave the course?

Im in first year i passed all the course work and 2 other exams but not these 2. If I got kicked i'd probably apply for something else through clearing though I have already tried applying elsewhere for things like optometry but the admissions team reject me saying previous academic performance not to a high enough standard.

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by Whtze
Im in first year i passed all the course work and 2 other exams but not these 2. If I got kicked i'd probably apply for something else through clearing though I have already tried applying elsewhere for things like optometry but the admissions team reject me saying previous academic performance not to a high enough standard.

OK this helps you. If you find academic courses hard change to something which is a lot less academic. What interests do you have? Could you do a graduate apprenticeship in something entirely different?

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