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Passing by Compensation??

  • 29-04-2011 1:56pm
    #1
    Curlyhatescurls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭


    Does anyone know anything about passing first year by compensation. I can't find info on it anywhere and even my tutors didn't know. I am in first year English and I will be doing exams in modules where we have not been graded for anything, all our marks for that module will come from the exam. So I am wondering if I have done well in all my essays in the other modules and do well in most of the exams can I pass without having to resit just the one failed exam at the end of summer?


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  • #2
    Mark200
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,536 ✭✭✭Mark200


    If you can find your course handbook anywhere (which you should have got at the start of the year but is probably also online somewhere) then it'll say in that what the rules are.

    They're different for every course as far as I know.


  • #3
    Curlyhatescurls
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 283 ✭✭Curlyhatescurls


    Oh I found it there and it says
    'A student who fails more than one exam or more than one essay; OR one exam and one essay will be judged to have failed the year's assessment.
    In the case of failure, the student will normally be required to re-sit all the examinations'

    Oh my GOD, does that mean if I fail more than ONE exam I have to repeat ALL of them???


  • #4
    Fringe
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,082 ✭✭✭Fringe


    You repeat all the ones you failed.


  • #5
    dabh
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 144 ✭✭dabh


    Curlyhatescurls wrote: »
    Oh I found it there and it says
    'A student who fails more than one exam or more than one essay; OR one exam and one essay will be judged to have failed the year's assessment.
    In the case of failure, the student will normally be required to re-sit all the examinations'

    Oh my GOD, does that mean if I fail more than ONE exam I have to repeat ALL of them???

    It does, AFAIK.

    Compensation rules vary from course to course, so rules that apply in (say) single-honor mathematics will differ from those that apply to languages and humanities.


  • #6
    tabouli
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 163 ✭✭tabouli


    I thought I read in an article somewhere (one of the college newspapers maybe) that last year not one person failed JF English. Maybe your tutors and all don't know about it because it doesn't happen very often. If that's the case I'd imagine if you've been handing in all your coursework you'll be ok...
    Oh I found it there and it says
    'A student who fails more than one exam or more than one essay; OR one exam and one essay will be judged to have failed the year's assessment.
    In the case of failure, the student will normally be required to re-sit all the examinations'

    I would read that as you can compensate if you fail one exam OR one essay.


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