Appealing

Kold

I'm just wondering on what criteria could someone appeal a result and expect to be successful?

Basically I completed my last year and passed everything but hadn't got some essays in. Now I knew I'd have to get them in at some stage but just before I was going to do a job in London I got some mail and it said that I'd need to enter 'repeat exams', only it didn't say anything but that, gave me no dates. So I went to London, fired an email to the head of fine art and he sent one back saying they had to be in for the 29th. This was like a week and a half before that date and I wouldn't be there to do them and hand them in. Now I was a bit stupid not to let him know but as soon as I got back I got them done and handed them in last Friday the 5th.

I was hoping it would be ok as the head said he'd try and get them submitted to the emergency markings but he called me today to say that he couldn't. My only options would be to take a year out or appeal (at the cost of 40e). I know it was my own fault but would I have a leg to stand on as far as an appeal would go. I'd really just prefer to get the degree over with rather than waste a year. Especially as I have the work done.

Tom Dunne

Kold wrote: »

I'm just wondering on what criteria could someone appeal a result and expect to be successful?

Basically, if the grounds for appeal are worthy.

For example, I had a student who appealed an exam of mine he failed. That student got 16% when he sat the exam. Do you, as a student, think there was anything I could do for that student? Is there any possible way I could pass that student? There wasn't and I didn't

If, however, the student got, say 37% (which would never happen, but that's beside the point), and the student had a good attendance record, submitted all course work and may simply have had a bad day at the exam, would that be worthy of an appeal? I think so.

Kold wrote: »

I was hoping it would be ok as the head said he'd try and get them submitted to the emergency markings but he called me today to say that he couldn't. My only options would be to take a year out or appeal (at the cost of 40e). I know it was my own fault but would I have a leg to stand on as far as an appeal would go. I'd really just prefer to get the degree over with rather than waste a year. Especially as I have the work done.

While I can't comment directly on your particular case because I don't have the full details, in my experience at several different third level institutions, the appeals process is fair and transparent and will weed out the chancers, while giving the genuine cases a fair hearing.

So, if you are not a chancer, then you have a high probability of your appeal being successful.

Kold

The essays are decent I reckon. Worth 40% anyway I'd think. It's just that they weren't marked because they were late.