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Should i repeat or defer?!

  • 22-08-2009 02:43PM
    #1
    clo87
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2 ✭


    I thought i had finished up four years of college and would be walking away with a well deserved homours degree, however, i was not very well in my last few months of college and missed college which i have sick certs for. I have two exams to repeat (next week!) but i am 100% sure i passed them in May but failed the cont. assessment for both subjects as i was absent due to illness. Now the college is telling me that if i repeat next week i will only get a pass degree instead of the hons degree i have worked straight thu for. Also, if i fail the 2 exams next week i will have to repeat them next year. They are saying my best option is to defer tilll next year. The head of department has not gotten back to them on where he stands on the matter and i feel so angry. i do not want to defer! Would it be acceptable for them to forget the cont. assessments and just regard the final exam as 100% instead of 70/30 ? im in limbo right now!


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  • #2
    Bébhinn91
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12 ✭Bébhinn91


    I doubt they would disregard the cont. assesments simply because it wouldn't be fair to the other students who passed said assesments. It would be considered to be preferential treatment to you even though you were ill.

    Now on repeating or deferring, this is a decision you have to make yourself, Do you want to defer or repeat? If you want to defer have you enough money to get you through? If you repeat the exams are there any long-term implications(for possible jobs) of just getting a pass degree?

    Tbh if it was me I would defer(if I could afford it of course!) because as you said you did all the work for an hons. degree, why would you just settle for a pass degree(nothing wrong with pass degrees at all btw)


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