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Assessment Handbook Undergraduate Modules


4.7 Resits and resubmissions

If your module allows resits or resubmissions - not all modules do - you’ll be offered only one opportunity to resit or resubmit. No resit or resubmission will be permitted more than thirteen months after your module’s first examination or submission opportunity.

Resits and resubmissions are not allowed if you’ve passed the module.

Resitting examinations

If you sit but fail the examination you may be permitted to resit it in the next examination period, provided that you have:

  • an overall examinable component score of at least 15 on the University Scale,
  • an overall pass (a score of 40 or more on the University Scale) in continuous assessment,
  • satisfied any module-specific thresholds, and
  • satisfied any residential school requirements your module has.

A few modules have different rules about resitting, and you’ll be told in your module materials what those are.

Resubmitting examined work

If your module has no examination, you may be able to resubmit the examined work - not all modules allow resubmission.

If the examinable component includes both an examination and another piece of work and you fail either, you may be eligible to resit, but you’ll have to undertake both the examination and the other work again.

On language modules you will be required to resit/resubmit both the written and oral elements of the end-of-module assessment even if you scored 40 or more in one of these components at your first attempt.

Registering for resits and resubmission

If appropriate, you’ll receive an offer of registration and a registration agreement in a mailing sent shortly after your module result is released.

Modules for which you’re resitting examinations or resubmitting are counted towards the total number of credits (120) for which you may register in any one year.