Failing second year at university

N0215900

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poet123

The bottomline is that you either are unsuited to the course, or didnt do enough work, either way you are taking a place someone else could use. Before asking someone to leave the Uni would have looked at all your work and assessed your reasons for doing poorly, if they do not believe you can/will do better they are quite correct to tell you so.

Oldernotwiser

N0215900 wrote: »

I have exhausted all help provided by the university as they dont seem to care about my circumstances and keep sending me round in circles by passing me on to other staff.
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What circumstances?

bestpud

You failed the exams because you didn't like the modules? :cool:

I'm guessing you just wanted to finish the year so your funding wouldn't be affected and thought it wouldn't matter if you just turned up for the exams?

I think they have a point tbh - you may have passed the first year but you've failed the second so I can't see how they are 'out of order'.

Perhaps they feel you will try and transfer every time the going gets a bit tough?

Oldernotwiser

N0215900 wrote: »

okay to help you understand a little more....when your expertise involve marketing based modules and you do an economics module and a information systems module (which is the biggest bull module ever) then you dont expect to do well. im sure even yourself can agree that modules specific to courses sometimes do not offer an insight into the career route you wish to take.

and before you state that economics effetcs everyone etc etc, reading a newspaper about it does not make you an expert and plenty of successful people have made it through life without having to know these sort of things.
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Nobody had much sympathy for you after your original post - now they have even less.

Alcmene

N0215900 wrote: »

Is there any outside organisations that could offer any help or support? what should i do? i passed my 1st year so terminating my studies and not allowing me to re-take the year is completey out of order.

You could try your Student Union.
There will also be a an Appeals process that you may wish to apply for, though do it quick as they normally have tight deadlines.
I think that maybe you may wish to rethink your role as a student. Is it out of order for you to fail? The University will have your success as a student as the main decision in the outcome of your recommendation, and if they feel that you are not going to be successful in this particular course then the regulations allow them to withdraw you. This can all be found in your student regulations, which you agreed to when you enrolled.

Rosie75

First year retakes are an entirely different thing, since they are not at honours level - first year is regarded as something of a foundation year. Most universities and courses do not allow retakes in the second and third years. This is not "completely out of order", but a nationally-accepted practice. You have absolutely no chance of appealing on the basis that first years are allowed to resit exams or retake a year. The regulations are completely different at honours and pre-honours level.

You say that the modules did not suit you, but at the end of the day you chose to take those modules, and they are part of the broad field of study that you are enrolled on. What's the difference between them not suiting you, and you not being suited to the course?

PasturesNew

What is marketing if it isn't: Ideas, based on economics/politics, delivered directly or indirectly using IT systems?

Marketing cannot sit alone. Marketing is the idea, researching the market .... but to deliver to your marketplace you need to time it right (economics) and deliver it on time (IT/IT aided).

I think it's important you know about cluster sizes and how they'll impact your HD space when you're trying to sort out a campaign of hefty RAW files and a database dump from SQL.

Rosie75

N0215900 wrote: »

I just dont wish to change university, and even though they said they would help in my future applications they are not being very helpful in my decision to change course. I have a relative who works at the uni as a lecturer and has informed me that before any major decions such as terminating studies or allowing re-takes for years they interview the student and discuss the matters inperson. This occurs at other uni's but my department are not allowing me this opportunity.

I don't see what difference an interview would make - and I have never come across such a practice at any of the universities I have worked at. At the end of the day, the departmental exam board is working with two sets of transparent institution-wide criteria - the marking scheme and the university's degree regulations. They cannot simply execise discretion and decide, on the basis of a chat with a student, that they will pass him or her, or allow retakes that the regulations do not actually permit.

It sounds as though you have made assumptions about the way things work, rather than familiaring yourself with the degree regulations, and now want to blame this on your department.

Oldernotwiser

I think you've left it a bit late to play the special needs card, I'm afraid.