Undergraduate Progression and Awards Regulations

Progression regulations should be standardised. Some variation may be appropriate to accommodate requirements from external professional and accrediting bodies.

1. Progression should be on an annual basis. 
2. Students are permitted to carry failed modules from semester to semester, but not from year to year. 
3. Students should receive provisional module results after Semester 1 for all modules completed and assessed during Michaelmas term. Courts of Examiners should convene after Semester 2 assessment and consider and confirm the results from both semesters.

1. The mark representing a pass should be standardised as far as possible across all programmes. All undergraduate programmes should provide clear grade descriptors setting out what constitutes a pass.
2. The progression threshold in all standard four-year degree programmes will not be higher than the pass mark.

1. Students should have a balanced credit load acrosss the two semesters, i.e., 30 credits in semester 1 and 30 credits in semester 2.
2. The number of credits to pass a year is 60 [this is predicated on all undergraduate programmes comprising 60 ECTS per year].
3. All modules and components of modules are compensatable.
4. 10 ECTS may be accumulated at ‘Qualified Pass’ (i.e. marks between 35-39% where the pass mark is 40% or 45-49% where the pass mark is 50% for some professionally accredited courses).
5. If a student has achieved both Fail and Qualified Pass grades in modules completed in semester 1 and semester 2, they will be required to present for reassessment in all failed components in all modules for which they obtained either a fail grade or Qualified Pass. The reassessment session usually occurs at the end of August to coincide with the start of Semester 1 of the next academic year.
6. There is no aggregation.

The calculation of the degree award will be based on the final two years (JS+SS) results, weighted at 30% and 70% respectively.

The maximum number of years to complete an undergraduate degree should be:

• 6 for a 4-year programme and;
• 7 for a 5-year programme unless otherwise specified by accrediting bodies.

A student’s academic record on their transcript will show clearly the time lost through repetition of a year.

1. Students should not be allowed to repeat all years.
2. Students should not repeat any academic year more than once within a degree programme and may not repeat more than two academic years within a degree programme [See Regulation 6].
3. Repetition of a year is in full, i.e., all modules and all assessment components. There will be an option to repeat a year on an ‘off-books’ basis.

Students who are given permission to defer from the annual to the supplemental session (including on medical grounds) are recorded at the annual session as 'Defer'. As with Regulation 7(i), the student's academic record on their transcript will show clearly the stages at which the student has supplemented and/or repeated years.

1. Supplementals should be available in all years.
2. The right to supplementals where a student has failed at the annual session should be automatic.
   1. Students who have passed at the annual session are not permitted to present at the supplemental session in order to improve their performance.
3. The same progression regulations, including compensation, should be applied at annual and supplemental sessions.
4. Rescheduled exams within the session should be discontinued.
5. Students (in all years) should only be required to re-sit examinations or re-submit coursework for failed modules or components thereof.
6. Different reassessment modalities should be allowed where appropriate.
7. Where supplemental assessments are taken, marks are awarded and agreed as usual. Capping will not be applied.