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Progression and Award Regulations for Taught Courses

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Chris Bexton, PG Registry ManagerIan Hamley, UG Registry Manager

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Objective of Session

• Undergraduate Regulations

• Postgraduate Taught Regulations

• Extenuating Circumstances

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Undergraduate Regulations - Progression

• September 2004 onwards• Qualifying Year, Part I and Part II• 120 credits per stage• Pass mark = 40% (normally)• Remember the Supplementary Regulations too!• What happens at the end of a stage…

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Undergraduate Regulations - Awards

• 3 models – Arithmetic Mean, Ordinal Scale & Threshold • Arithmetic Mean is the most common• Parts I/II/III weighted according to programme specification• Final weighted average equates to a degree classification:

• 1 – 70%+• 2.1 – 60% - 69%• 2.2 – 50% - 59%• 3 – 40% - 49%

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Undergraduate Regulations - Awards

• Borderlines:

• 3 – 39%• 2.2 – 49%• 2.1 – 59%• 1 – 68% or 69% - Programme Spec defines

• 26b – allows Examiners discretion if the final mark is deemed “unrepresentative of normal performance”

• Classifications published in the Atrium (PB) & on the Portal

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Postgraduate Regulations

Introduced from 2006/7 onwards

• Pass mark - Master’s level 50%, PG Dip/Cert level 40%

• Compensation possible if passed modules worth at least 80 credits (or 40 credits for students on Postgraduate Certificate courses), and have a weighted average for taught stage of at least 50% with no module marks of less than 40% (a weighted average of at least 40% with no module marks of less than 30% for Postgraduate Diploma and Certificate students) unless programme specifications state that module marks for up to 20 credits can be below 40%

• Supplementary regulations will state where modules are non-compensatable

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Postgraduate Regulations

• Progression hurdles in some regulations

• Schools have choice over timing of reassessments

• Resit marks used for progression and overall award, not classification

• Courses with non-standard starts; notify recommendations when available

University Progression, Compensation and Reassessment for Postgraduate Taught Courses

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University Progression, Compensation and Reassessment for Postgraduate Taught Courses

Pass marks in all modules taken (50% at Master’s level, 40% at PG Dip and Cert level)

Masters progress to dissertation PG cert/dip satisfactory completion

NO

YES

Weighted stage average of at least 50% (40% PG cert/dip)

Regulation 11* At least 80 credits of pass (40 credits PG cert) and no marks < 40% (<30% PG cert/dip)

Masters progress to dissertation PG cert/dip satisfactory completion

YES YES

One reassessment opportunity in all failed modules

NO NO

Regulation 11 satisfied

Progress to dissertation PG cert/dip satisfactory completion

YES

NO

Regulation 11 not satisfied at masters level but at PG cert/dip

Terminate masters award PG cert/dip

Terminate course no award

YES

NO

Postgraduate Regulations - classification

Regulation 22:

Postgraduate Masters, Diploma and Certificates will be awarded with:

• Merit to students who achieve a final credit-weighted mark of at least 60%• with Distinction to students who achieve a final credit-weighted mark of at

least 70%. Programme specifications may, though, additionally state any or all of the following:

a) a mark of at least 70% must be gained in the dissertation/project stage for a Distinction to be awarded,

b) a credit-weighted mark of at least 70% must be gained in the taught stage for a Distinction to be awarded,

c) an award of Merit is not available.

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Extenuating Circumstances

• Student to demonstrate ‘sufficient cause’…

presence of circumstances under which it would be unreasonable to expect [the student] to have attempted the assessment.

Quality Manual, Assessment Regulations

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Extenuating Circumstances

• Third party evidence:– Independent and reliable source– Original and in English– Timely (not retrospective)– Explains underperformance

• 7 working days

• Extenuating circumstances consideration meetings

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Contact Details

Registry:http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/academic-office/studentregistry/

Email: studentregistry@nottingham.ac.uk

Location: E Floor, Portland Building, University Park