What happens if i fail third year

This page explains how the University organises resits and supplementary years. If you have any further questions, please contact Just Ask. Most taught programmes at the University of Bristol are modular, which means that they are broken up into units, each of which carry a certain number of credit points. If you've failed a unit, then you're likely to be offered a second attempt resit. For some courses there are additional criteria, so check your course handbook. For taught postgraduate students, you must have passed at least half of the credit points in the taught component before you will be allowed a second attempt at any failed units.

Resits, or second attempts, are usually capped at the minimum pass mark. Even though marks for second attempts are capped, the school and faculty exam boards will be able to see what the actual scores were for all second attempts.

In some circumstances they can make adjustments based on this. If you have extenuating circumstances that affected your performance in your first attempt, you may be offered a further first attempt at the assessment during the resit period.

You must have submitted an EC form before the deadline so that the exam board can take your ECs into account. If you have a good reason why you were unable to submit your EC form before the deadline, you can appeal to ask for your resits to be considered as first attempts. Please see our page about Academic Appeals for more information.

The resit exam timetable is released in early August. In resits will be online for the majority of programmes. If you are on a non-modular programme your resits may be outside of the normal exam periods. If you need to resubmit some coursework, you will be given a deadline for this by your school office. Resit results are released during mid-September each year. You will receive a faculty decision letter to let you know whether you have passed or not and whether you are able to proceed to the next year of study.

This letter is usually attached to an email. This sometimes happens automatically, but you should double check with your school office. These courses are non-modular and assessments often take place outside of the main assessment periods. You are likely to be offered a second attempt at an assessment fairly quickly.

Depending on the situation, you may have to fulfil additional criteria. If your marks for other module elements are high enough that your averaged course mark is 40 or above, you will pass the module overall regardless of the one failure. However, you may wish to re-submit anyway, in order to achieve a higher overall degree average.

The opportunities to allow this vary among Universities, so check the regulations at your own institution. If you fail an entire module you are usually required to re-sit the assessments, either by re-submitting the coursework or, in some cases, by resitting an exam.

The form of the assessment will be decided according to the existing module guidelines, university regulations, and the decisions of the lecturer and board of examiners. The resulting mark is usually capped at a bare pass level, which is typically in the range.

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