All students will receive an email after each board informing them of the the decision regarding their progress. It is important to carefully read this information and also check your transcript via the link provided in the board letter.

You will be required to re-sit or retake any failed modules. You will need to check your board letter to understand if you are re-sitting or re-taking.

A re-sit does not require you to attend any additional classes, and you will not be charged tuition fees but for re-takes you will need to attend teaching and may be charged but this depends on your credit load.

A compensated pass means that you will be awarded a pass grade for a module even though you did not achieve the required pass mark for all assessments within a module.

A compensated pass is normally offered when the overall mark for a module is 40% or more, and any one other component of that module is less than 40%, but at least 35%.

If a compensated pass has been offered no re-sit will be allowed.

Compensation is not permitted at level 7 or for certain professionally regulated programmes. 

A condoned pass means that you will be awarded a pass grade even though you did not achieve the required pass mark for a module.

A condoned pass is normally offered when a student has made at least one attempt at the module (a submission must have been made for the re-sits) and if the rest of the Foundation, level 4 or level 5 or profile is clear. There is no condonement permitted at Level 6 or 7.

A condoned pass will show as a CP grade on your transcript and unlike a compensated pass can be rejected in favor of a re-sit. Students who wish to reject a condoned pass should contact their tutor in the first instance.

A student who is not satisfied with a mark or decision ratified by a Programme Assessment Board may submit an academic appeal however re-marks are not available. Full details of how to make an appeal are available in our Academic Appeals Procedures.

If you submitted mitigating circumstances and they have been accepted your transcript will show an M grade next to the module. This means that the assessment will be held at its current attempt number and you will be required to submit at the next available opportunity. In the case of assessments held at attempt 1 marks will be uncapped.

If you believe that you were entitled to mitigating circumstances and need to apply for them after the assessment board has ratified a decision you should make an appeal by following the information provided in step 5.

All awards are calculated by following the rules described in the university’s academic regulations. Please see section D of the General Academic Regulations for further information.

For all students who registered on Full Honours Degree programmes from the start of the 2019/20 academic year onwards, the following consideration rulings will be applied:

(i) Should students final overall mark fall into the consideration bands for classification of 48% – 49%, 58% – 59% and 68% – 69%, the following rules will be used to determine which classification is awarded.

(ii) For students achieving a final overall mark of at least 68% at levels 5 and 6 overall, and with half of all the credits at these two levels (including the ‘capstone’ module) at 70% or above a first class award (1) will be awarded.

(iii) For students achieving a final overall mark of at least 58% at levels 5 and 6 overall, and with half of all credits at these two levels (including the ‘capstone’ module) at 60% or above an upper second class award (2:1) will be awarded.

(iv) For students achieving a final overall mark of at least 49% at levels 5 and 6 overall, and with half of all credits at these two levels (including the ‘capstone’ module) at 50% or above a lower second-class award (2:2) will be awarded.