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Hamiltonion

Does anybody know what * stands for after your grade in exam results? Also, I'm 1% off passing a paper and have to resit, can I compensate or would this already have happened if possible? If not is it worth appealing to try and get the extra 1%? I'm JF science so if anyone has any experience I'd be v thankful

Mark200

Hamiltonion wrote: »

Does anybody know what * stands for after your grade in exam results? Also, I'm 1% off passing a paper and have to resit, can I compensate or would this already have happened if possible? If not is it worth appealing to try and get the extra 1%? I'm JF science so if anyone has any experience I'd be v thankful

Yeah I was 3% from passing one of mine and it said I had to repeat the exam. I presume you would have been given the compensation thing if possible... if you weren't given it, like me, then you probably failed the coursework part

ApeXaviour

Babbit wrote: »

Hi,

You should have studied 1% harder so as not to be in the position you are in now.

Regards,

Babbit.

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Hamiltonion

Babbit, you truely are useful.

Yeah but we got our practical results separatley so that wouldnt be, I think I might just appeal it and see what happens?
Anyone know what the * means?

jason&arthur

in CS it means you failed the coursework. Look up the exam regulations for your course, it should say exactly what it is in there.

Bajingo

Hamiltonion wrote: »

Babbit, you truely are useful.

Yeah but we got our practical results separatley so that wouldnt be, I think I might just appeal it and see what happens?
Anyone know what the * means?

What was the module you failed because if the * means course work failed you would know by now for bio geo or chem because they gave us the results already..physics or maths I dont know..

I say appeal it because if your only 1% away they probably rounded you down ya know..so you might less than 1% away from a pass..

Does it depend on whether you're taking the module next year?

blucey

Bajingo wrote: »

What was the module you failed because if the * means course work failed you would know by now for bio geo or chem because they gave us the results already..physics or maths I dont know..

I say appeal it because if your only 1% away they probably rounded you down ya know..so you might less than 1% away from a pass..

Does it depend on whether you're taking the module next year?

remember that you have no RIGHT to appeal. You need to talk to the lecturer in the course, then talk to your tutor/SU ed officer. You can only appeal under certain narrow grounds.

Bajingo

blucey wrote: »

remember that you have no RIGHT to appeal. You need to talk to the lecturer in the course, then talk to your tutor/SU ed officer. You can only appeal under certain narrow grounds.

Oh when I said appeal I ment go talk to your tutor I was talking to someone who failed by 10% and was still admitted to second year.

I didnt know you couldnt just go ahead and appeal though!

Bajingo

Bajingo wrote: »

I didnt know you couldnt just go ahead and appeal though!

http://www.tcd.ie/Senior_Tutor/tutors/appeals/ && http://www.tcd.ie/vp-cao/teo/vpprocsappeals.php

There's a fairly common assumption in college about appealing which people think is similar to the LC appeal thing which, well, basically anyone can appeal. As blucey says, it's quite strict as to what you can appeal on.

kingQuez

Having sat on the other side of the exams a few years ago (albeit in a different faculty) I know things are done pretty thoroughly, and always in the fairest possible way. Unless there was an actual error in adding up the results its incredibly unlikely that your result will change. That said, it does no harm to review the paper/coursework. IIRC your first point of contact should be with your tutor, who will make the arrangements for you to review the paper with the examiner. Its no big deal, its not an appeal for a remark, and you wont walk out of the meeting with a new result -- but you might be in a better position to assess whether it was a fair result or not, and whether you want to go down the route of an appeal.

Can you not just take a supplemental exam?

GlasnevinRed

When are the supplementals on???