Failing an exam in final year.....

Flex

Hi, I just did one of the 4 end of semester exams I have this morning. Im not 100% sure but I think I failed. Going back over the exam paper and looking at answers online at home I reckon I got 30%-42% (if the examiner is feeling extra generous I might hit 45%). It was just an absolute disaster today, thought todays exam was the easist so devoted the least time to studying it, only 1 of the topics I studied in depth came up.

Im in final year so if I fail, what does this mean?? Can I compensate or anything? Someone told me before if you fail you can be verbally quizzed by a panel of people about the subject and if you can prove you know it inside out, theyll bump you up to a pass (40%), but theres no August repeats and if you repeat the year the following year and do a full diet of exams again, you still just get a pass degree. Can you compensate a final year exam? I really dont want to end up with a pass degree over this.....

Thanks

Suaimhneach

Get in touch with your year head right a way if you are unsure.
There are different policies in different schools and it can depend on your degree and your preformance over all.
You will not get a definite answer here, and it is best to get it from the people who know.

Good luck.

[Tho, curiously, why are there no repeats in August? ]

Mad_Max

Can anyone confirm/deny this about no repeats in August, i can't see why there wouldnt be unless its just a personal circumstance.

Just wondering as i know someone who has deferred exams till the repeat times.

Suaimhneach

Again, dont rely on hear say. Get in touch with the college.

As far as I know you have to be allowed to repeat, but again, it might depend on the course/school you're in. I think if you are *not* allowed to repeat they'd have to make that pretty fcuking clear from the get go. If exams were deferred to teh repeats, then thats what happened, the registry probably would have mentioned it if they werent able to actually sit the exams, ye know.

GavMan

Well, there's dates set aside for them:

PERIOD FOR AUTUMN/REPEAT EXAMINATIONS Mon 11 Aug - Sat 23 Aug

Academic Calender 2007/2008

H2G2

Yes its true. BUT only for a very very small number of programmes. ppl on those programme will have been aware of those rules for a long time.

For the rest of you the general rule for the majority of programmes is repeats in August.
When in doubt don’t believe anything you read here, only what the Programme Board chair tell you directly.

Mad_Max

I very much hope to not need them anyway but nice to know they're there

LeixlipRed

It wasn't Financial Economics was it. Nothing I studied came up. I nearly got sick when I turned over the paper. Menkens you're a ****

belleray

Hey,
I managed to fail one of my modules in final year (science). Your best bet is to go talk to the course head and/or lecturers soon and then again after you get the results. Its not the end of the world just a pain when it comes to your average. In the end 4 of the 14 in my class had failed this and they let us all compensate, I was only on 38% but one guys got 30%, the lecturer actaully turned around and said to me that these kinds of results have a "magic" way of jumping up to 40% in the end

Also go see your paper, every little helps and you can find marks added incorrectly or sections not marked - it happens.

If all else fails there are The Boards - the verbal exam you were talking about. They happen about 2 weeks before your results are due and are scary as hell. They can be anything from 10 mins to an hour, mine was 45 mins. They will mostly focus on your final year project, the subject you failed - going through the exam paper with you so its important to see why you didn't do well with the lecturer. Mine ended up just being one person as the other one never turned up but he was lovely, went over my best exam as well, talked a little about the good points and the bad points of the course as a whole and whether I had any issues with it.

It made the difference to the 2 of us who were called so its worth spending the time studying for it once you get called - we both moved from the 2.2 to 2.1's. They can ask you anything from the entire 3/4 years so its hard but then final year is hard.

Good luck and I'll cross my fingers you've passed and won't need to know all this. Any questions feel free to pm.

cooker3

Oh and if worse comes to worse and you do fail then you will not do a full diet of repeats next year, just repeat whatever you failed