Advice on failing a final university exam
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Well at least now she understands that she shouldnt have strolled out of the kitchen.... women...
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Ask for it to be remarked.
Wait until she fails her entire degree, then she will be madbro!
But yeah, if it's last year, goodluckandthanksgoodbye to resitting to get a better result. The best she could do is resit next year, but she would only be granted the pass mark even if she scores top marks.
But yeah, if it's last year, goodluckandthanksgoodbye to resitting to get a better result. The best she could do is resit next year, but she would only be granted the pass mark even if she scores top marks.
I missed my 2:1 by 1% lol, live and learn! Also...not studying and writing my dissertation in 2 weeks didn't help. I was a bad student! (Thankfully I've been given a second chance on my Masters course, which I am projected a distinction.)
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Wanting your grade revised up to achieve an even better grade (2:1 to 1st for example) I can kind of understand. Revising it up because you flat out failed it garners less sympathy from me and suggests that if she spent a little more time learning and a little less time moaning about her inadequacies then she'd likely make a better speech therapist.
Yeah that's utter crap
I don't revise for my exams, one I had 2 lessons in and passed it :/What're the consequences?
I think failing a final year exam in my degree would have meant no graduation. That would be bad. If failing a final year exam doesn't stop her graduating, there's no loss.
Missing the pass boundary is pretty poor though, when the vast majority are around 2.1. Is she incredibly thick or incredibly lazy?
I think failing a final year exam in my degree would have meant no graduation. That would be bad. If failing a final year exam doesn't stop her graduating, there's no loss.
Missing the pass boundary is pretty poor though, when the vast majority are around 2.1. Is she incredibly thick or incredibly lazy?
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Typically failing a course in the final year will mean not beng able to graduate, she will have to resent the entire year.
She can probably get the exam remarked, but the new result would be taken as final and that might be even lower. Furthermore, in cases like this where the exam is borderline failure and with the associated consequences (not being aleto graduate) the examiners will have already gone over the the entire paper with a toothpick. Every possible mark will have been awarded to see if the paper is in any sense considered a pass.
Finally, failing a paper is really hard in your final year. You have to have been incredibly unlucky or incredibly lazy. If there is a chance of failing then the student should have been filtered up earlier so it mostly comes down to lack of preparation, lack of hard work, poor planning or just lack of competence in the subject.
Exam papers are design to be easy to pass for the bottom end students, budget very hard to do well on making the uper classification significantly less common. Not getting 40% is not normal for a majority of students, even those in the 2.2 classification should get the 40% plus without too much issue if they have put in the sufficient effort.
She can probably get the exam remarked, but the new result would be taken as final and that might be even lower. Furthermore, in cases like this where the exam is borderline failure and with the associated consequences (not being aleto graduate) the examiners will have already gone over the the entire paper with a toothpick. Every possible mark will have been awarded to see if the paper is in any sense considered a pass.
Finally, failing a paper is really hard in your final year. You have to have been incredibly unlucky or incredibly lazy. If there is a chance of failing then the student should have been filtered up earlier so it mostly comes down to lack of preparation, lack of hard work, poor planning or just lack of competence in the subject.
Exam papers are design to be easy to pass for the bottom end students, budget very hard to do well on making the uper classification significantly less common. Not getting 40% is not normal for a majority of students, even those in the 2.2 classification should get the 40% plus without too much issue if they have put in the sufficient effort.
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I am sure there is a governing body for the exams, I'd suggest you find out who to contact from them and go from there.
