Your two scores - for continuous assessment and for examined work - will place you in one of the result areas shown in the matrices in Section 4.5. If you’re close to a boundary or there’s a large difference between your scores, Boards have some limited discretion to award a higher result. In making these discretionary decisions Boards will take into account the overall weighted average of your two scores and any special circumstances that you’ve reported.
Whatever weighting your module gives to each assessment component, you must reach both the scores shown in Section 4.5 to guarantee a pass at each grade. Your result is not determined by an averaging of continuous assessment and examination scores.
Your module result will be determined from the (weighted) average of all the summatively assessed work (as shown in section 4.2).
If your scores are lower than those shown for a grade in Section 4.5, ‘Result grades’, you might still be awarded the grade if you’ve given evidence of compelling special circumstances that significantly affected your performance (as explained in Sections 2.10, ‘Special circumstances affecting continuous assessment’ and 3.4, ‘Special circumstances affecting examined work’). But the Board can give only limited weight to special circumstances and you shouldn’t assume that your grade will be improved.
As well as the scores shown in Section 4.5, ‘Result grades’, some modules also require you to achieve a certain score (a ‘threshold’) for some element(s) of their assessment in order to achieve a pass. It is therefore possible to fail such modules even if your scores are above those shown on the table below. Your module material will tell you if thresholds apply to your module.
Some modules include satisfactory residential school participation among their requirements for a pass. The module material will tell you about this.
