Following the second semester examinations in Year 1 and again in Year 2, your results in that year of study will be considered by a Faculty Examiners’ Meeting. If you have not satisfied the pass criteria, the Examiners have the power to allow you to resit failed written examinations in September or to declare that you have made unsatisfactory progress.
In the former case, you will be sent information about the resit examination arrangements to your home address. You will be given an opportunity to speak to the Module Organiser of any modules you have failed which are administered by the School of Biological Sciences, but you will not be formally interviewed by the University. You should consult your Personal Tutor, or the Science Faculty Office, if you are in any doubt about your situation.
In the latter case, you may appeal to the Faculty Progress Committee but otherwise your studies will be terminated immediately. If your appeal is successful, you will be allowed to take the September resits, but otherwise your studies will be terminated. If you have not satisfied the pass criteria, then in September you must resit the written examination for every unit course (mandatory or not) in which you have a mark of less than 40%.
After the resits, a Faculty Examiners Meeting will again review your results. If you still have not satisfied the pass criteria, the Examiners have the power to allow you to repeat failed unit courses or to declare that you have made unsatisfactory progress; in the latter case you have the same right of appeal as in June. If you are given permission to repeat failed modules you will be required to attend a Dean’s Progress interview at which the details will be discussed.
Almost invariably, this will involve repeating a year of study, either with or without attendance.
But please note that you may not progress to the following year of study until you have successfully undertaken your repeat year.
Further details are in the Faculty of Science Handbook section headed ‘Attendances, Examinations and Progress in Studies’.
Please note that none of the courses to which this Code applies has a resit component for practical work. Instead the coursework mark from January/May is carried forward unamended.
Please note that the University requires a resit fee from students intending to take September examinations because of previous failure of a Year of Study.
Applicants who fail Year 2, may, if they pass Year 2 at the September re-sit examinations, progress to an Honours School. Students intending to make a late application must advise the appropriate Director of their wish to join his/her Honours School as soon as possible after they receive their June examination results. If the School has a field course before the September re-sit examination results are known, they may be required to attend this and to give to the Director a written promise to re-pay to the School the full costs which it incurred by providing for their attendance on that field course, if they are not subsequently accepted into the School.
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