Re-sits

ffeindadifyr

I wouldn't rely on the gereral reqirements of the Uni as the department that he is in might have further requirements. Check with the department.

madkid88

at birmingham university if you fail the resits then your asked to leave the other unless you got mitigation form

imported_goldie

Am very worried now. Just presumed he would be able to retake the year. I am as you can imagine very annoyed that he has wasted such a great chance, Nottingham is one of the best he could go to. He does have some emotional/mental health probs but he has also been wasting his time there binge drinking and missing lots of lectures. Have tried to persuade him to look for a job instead of continuing at Uni as although he says he wants a good degree i dont think he is committed.. seems more interested in the socialising at Uni!

dmg24

imported_goldie wrote: »

seems more interested in the socialising at Uni!

The fact that it is you trying to sort this out and not him does give that impression.

Sometimes the only way that people learn is the hard way, maybe leave him to it and let him see the mistake he is making? I know it is easier said than done, but maybe it would be for the best?

I'm not trying to be controversial, it is clear that you just want the best for him, but all too many people think that they can just breeze through uni, and perhaps he needs to learn that is not always the case? x

dmg24

Just presumed he would be able to retake the year.

From my reading of the regulations, this would not be allowed. Perhaps some exceptions are made?

patwa_2

Best of luck to your son and to all others taking re-sits this August.

I just missed the cut-off point for Artificial Intelligence (CS3014) but luckily my degree is still on track because of a mistake by the University. They signed me up to all the Level 3 Computing Science courses, one of which was not part of the degree, but the credit for which look as though they'll go forward to the credit requirement for progressing to Level 4.

Anyway resit is on August 9th, two weeks before I go away on holiday again, going to start cramming (I mean revising of course ) on Thursday.

H.

Stubert

I missed my exams in Jan and have got to go back at the end of August to do them. Manchester being an absolute shambles cant release the dates until this Thursday - quite late for sorting things out with work! But also sucks missing all my friends going on holiday and its really hard to get back into revising mode when everybody else is out having fun!

imported_goldie

dmg24 - i didnt understand the regulations, does it say he wont be allowed to re-take the year? Spoke to my son this morning and he seems to think he will be able to.

dmg24

The regulations are incredibly complex (needlessly so), but the way I read it was that you could only retake the whole year (ie all modules again) if you have not been reassessed during the summer. You would need mitigating circumstances not to sit the resits during the summer, and my personal feeling is that these would need to be very serious, considering that this is his second sitting anyway.

Alternatively, he may be able to resit eg one module at the next sitting, if he has passed all other subjects, and got an average of over 40% from all his subjects (including the failed one, so it could only really be a near fail).

The above two possibilities would be exceptions to the rule.

I could be wrong, because the regulations are just so complex!

I am hoping to start at Nottingham as a postgrad later this year, and I know many people who did their undergrad degrees at Nottingham. Nottingham is a highly regarded university, and as such has very high standards. My understanding from those that have studied there as undergrads, is that they really do not want people that cannot keep up with their standards (unless of course they have genuine reasons for getting into difficulties).

I think the regulations do cover all eventualities, but to understand the way it is written I would print it off and have a good study of it.

They do have a summary of the regs, in this flow chart:

http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/quality-manual/study-regulations/ug-regs-flow-chart.pdf

You will see from that, that the option to retake the whole year is not mentioned at all, which is another reason that I really think that the possibility is the exception to the rule.

dmg24

My biggest concern is still the fact that it is you that is having to do all the chasing around.

If he is having health problems, perhaps he could take a year out (and hopefully get a job?) and then reapply through UCAS for 2008. There would be nothing barring him from doing this.

If not, then maybe he needs to take a reality check, and realise that you cannot be there to pick up the pieces everytime? There is great debate about graduates nowadays having no common sense or sense of responsibility (this is not necessarily my own opinion!), and for this reason actually being pretty useless in the workplace. By letting him get on with it himself, you could actually be teaching him some pretty useful life skills?

I know it is worrying for you, I really hope you get some better news soon x