Reassessments

If you fail a unit or miss an assessment, you have up to three attempts to pass the unit for an undergraduate programme, or two attempts for an undergraduate professional or postgraduate taught programme, but your unit will be capped at the pass mark, unless you are eligible for a supplementary reassessment.

You can take an assessment again as a supplementary reassessment if you have missed it and you deferred or you self-certified your absence

or

Your assessment has been affected by exceptional circumstances with the required ‘impact classification’ of i2 or above.

Capped or uncapped reassessments

If you take a reassessment as a first attempt then you mark is uncapped. If your reassessment is a second or third attempt your mark will be capped at the pass mark.

Must-pass units

Some units are must-pass, so you must obtain the credit points by achieving the pass mark and any additional criteria. Passing the unit is required to demonstrate that you are able to meet the intended learning outcomes for the programme. The unit cannot be compensated, this is where you receive credit for a unit that you did not pass, so that you can progress.

Any must-pass units will be listed in the programme catalogue entry for your programme and year of study.

Reassessment period

Find the dates for the upcoming reassessment period.

Dates may vary for certain programmes, particularly postgraduate or professional programmes and the International Foundation Programme. Your school will inform you in this case.

Preparing for your reassessments

You will be able to view reassessment details in the View assessment details screen in eVision.

Your reassessment details will provide due dates for each assessment. For example, if an assessment is available for five days, the information in eVision will only show the end date.

Full details of required reassessments will be given on the relevant unit’s Blackboard site.

Ensure that you note any feedback for unit/assessments to inform preparations for reassessment. Published unit marks for this academic year will not be visible ahead of the reassessment period.

Tuition fees and reassessments

There are no additional tuition fees for resits or supplementary reassessments that are taken in the same academic year they were first failed or missed.

Visas and reassessments

If you are a Student visa holder and resits or supplementary reassessments will change your course end date, seek advice from Student Visas about how this may impact you.

Please be aware that Student visas are not automatically extended.

Changes to study may also affect your eligibility for the Graduate Route.

Relevant academic regulations:

• section 30 for undergraduate modular programmes, paragraph 30.7 onwards
• section 31 for undergraduate non-modular professional programmes, paragraph 31.8 onwards
• section 37 for postgraduate taught programmes, paragraph 37.5 onwards.

Advice and support about academic outcomes

We recommend you talk with your personal tutor or school office about how your academic outcome affects you. You can also:

• speak to the Students’ Union academic advice team
• get online and in-person wellbeing support
• get visa support and advice if you require a visa extension because your course end date has changed.

Changes to your study may also affect your eligibility for the graduate route.