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If you fail to submit one assignment in a module, do you fail the whole module?

  • 29-01-2014 02:27AM
    #1
    DynamiteC101
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 145 ✭✭


    In regards to the DCU academic policy, if you 'skip' or simply not bother doing one of the assignments in one of your modules, do you automatically fail the module itself?

    For example if you were doing a module and there was three assignments - A paper worth 20 %, another paper worth 30 %, followed by another paper worth 50 %. If one decided to 'skip' the first paper worth 20 %, but then made a serious effort with remaining 30 % and 50 %, could you still successfully pass the module?

    Let's imagine you got 25% in the 30 % one, and then 40 % in the 50 % one. Would you have legitimately attained 65 %? Or is there a rule that if you fail to complete all the assignments, you automatically fail the module? I'm not planning on doing this, I just saw the question on another website and it was of interest to me.


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  • #2
    AGoodison
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 140 ✭✭AGoodison


    DynamiteC101 wrote: »
    In regards to the DCU academic policy, if you 'skip' or simply not bother doing one of the assignments in one of your modules, do you automatically fail the module itself?

    For example if you were doing a module and there was three assignments - A paper worth 20 %, another paper worth 30 %, followed by another paper worth 50 %. If one decided to 'skip' the first paper worth 20 %, but then made a serious effort with remaining 30 % and 50 %, could you still successfully pass the module?

    Let's imagine you got 25% in the 30 % one, and then 40 % in the 50 % one. Would you have legitimately attained 65 %? Or is there a rule that if you fail to complete all the assignments, you automatically fail the module? I'm not planning on doing this, I just saw the question on another website and it was of interest to me.


    No, you just lose that percentage off your overall module mark.


  • #3
    miss-p
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 166 ✭✭miss-p


    It depends on the module. Sometimes assignments are compulsory, so if you don't submit you may have to repeat the module/assignment. I had a module before where it was 50/50 assignment/exam and you had to pass both components to pass the module.


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