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compensation?!

  • 17-02-2010 8:21pm
    #1
    niallm2034
    Closed Accounts Posts: 27 ✭


    hi all doing AF1 and convinced myself i failed the maths module though I feel i might pass with compensation! could somebody please explain to me how it all works! cheers :)


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  • #2
    H2G2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭H2G2


    Compensation can only be applied to a full set of examination marks, ie after semester 2 exams. There is nothing you can do or ask, you just have to wait. The two exam board (PBERC and PAB) will process all results after semester 2 exams and will automatically consider all eligible compensation cases. Remember compensation is not automatic, it is at the discretion of the board.


  • #3
    stringy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 652 ✭✭✭stringy


    Usually compensation will be considered when having passed all but one of your exams. The exam you failed will be compensated usually if you attain over 35%, but it is at the complete discretion of the board


  • #4
    H2G2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭H2G2


    The DCU rule from Marks and Standards...
    Compensation is only applied when all of the following conditions are met:
    1. the modules are being attempted for the first time, i.e. where a full set of exam marks is presented for the first time; compensation is not applied in relation to modules being attempted at a second or subsequent sitting
    2. a minimum precision mark of 45% must be obtained
    3. a maximum of 1/6 of the available marked ECTS credits have been failed (regardless of the semester in which the failure(s) occur or of how these ECTS credits are made up in terms of modules) in the academic session
    4. the marks obtained in the individual failed module(s) is/are greater than 35%


  • #5
    robby^5
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,969 ✭✭✭robby^5


    H2G2 wrote: »
    The DCU rule from Marks and Standards...

    You wouldn't happen to know what they mean by academic session? I mailed to ask, but I'm not sure if they mean it as a semester or both semesters.


  • #6
    H2G2
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 622 ✭✭✭H2G2


    robby^5 wrote: »
    You wouldn't happen to know what they mean by academic session? I mailed to ask, but I'm not sure if they mean it as a semester or both semesters.

    It is defined as
    An academic session is the enrolment period covered by the enrolment fee; the maximum duration of an academic session is 12 months.
    So that means semester 1 and semester 2.


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  • #7
    barbiedollz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 89 ✭✭barbiedollz


    i got 33 in an exam...is there any hope of me getting compensation??


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