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Academic Services DivisionAcademic Services Division
Academic Services Division
Progression and Award Regulations for Taught Courses
RegistryAcademic Services Division
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
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