Advice on failing a final university exam

DezUk

DezUk

DezUk

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I am posting this thread on behalf of a friend of mine who has recently ha some bad news. She is studying to be a linguistic and speech therapist and sat her final exam last week, which involved a presentation. She was told she failed by 3 marks and I personally think that’s a bit harsh.

I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this scenario and if there is a way of appealing to try and find those extra 3 marks. It would prevent my mate having to go through another placement and all that goes with it.

Advice appreciated!

Cheers
 
DezUk said:
I am posting this thread on behalf of a friend of mine who has recently ha some bad news. She is studying to be a linguistic and speech therapist and sat her final exam last week, which involved a presentation. She was told she failed by 3 marks and I personally think that’s a bit harsh.

I am wondering if anyone else has experienced this scenario and if there is a way of appealing to try and find those extra 3 marks. It would prevent my mate having to go through another placement and all that goes with it.

Advice appreciated!

Cheers
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Why do you think it's harsh?
 
She'll probably have an advisor of studies or something similar: email them, they'll know the system. I strongly doubt they'll remark or nudge her up without some sort of reason, which would probably have to have been submitted before the exam.
 
There are grade boundaries, she didn't make the one to pass therefore she didn't pass. You sympathise because you hope she wants the D I assume.
 
Most the time they bump up the marks slightly for cases where grade difference is minor. Surely it'll just negatively affect her average? I know you can't resit final year exams at my uni.
 
Unless of course this is a badly worded thread and the "bad news" referred to at the start of the OP was BEFORE the exam?

In which case (depending on the type of news) she might be able to get some kind of exonerating circumstance?
 
paradigm said:
Unless of course this is a badly worded thread and the "bad news" referred to at the start of the OP was BEFORE the exam?

In which case (depending on the type of news) she might be able to get some kind of exonerating circumstance?
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She received the bad news (exam results) after the exam
 
Why is it harsh? You don't get to re-sit in real life...

Are you sympathising with her in the hope you get to stroll down her womanly corridor?

/Salsa
 
Resit the exam to get a D or resit the entire module next year if she wants/needs a better grade.

I believe you can ask for it to be remarked by someone else.

MW
 
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