Repeat Study

Undergraduate students who fail in August and who are not permitted to proceed to the next level of study in the September are usually required to repeat the year and be re-examined/re-assessed. Students can do this either as an external student without attendance or as an internal student by part-time/full-time attendance. Further guidance about these two options is given below.

External Repeat

Undergraduate students who wish to be re-examined in particular modules without further attendance (i.e. as an external repeating student) should complete a Re-Assessment Application Form. Students should apply online to re-examined/re-assesed (see link in right hand box) by the published deadline. Payment of the appropriate fee to the Examinations Office is required (online payment is possible).

Internal Repeat

Undergraduate students who wish to repeat a period of their programme of study with part-time or full-time attendance should complete a Change of Status (COS) Form, indicating details of the repeat programme of study in section 2A and the repeat module details in section 2B.

Please note: Only modules which are to be repeated should be included in the 'units to be added' column in section 2B, i.e. modules which have already been taken and passed in the previous session should NOT be added in the 'units to be retained' column. This will ensure that the student is registered to take the correct number of modules in the repeat study session.

Once departmental approval for the repeat period has been given in section 5, the form will then need to be checked by the Taught Programmes Office, before such students will be able to register and make the necessary tuition fee payments in accordance with instructions issued by the Registration and Examinations Office. This procedure is intended to ensure that repeating students are given the appropriate academic guidance and also so that they are correctly registered for the relevant level and modules of study. Where such students are sponsored by the Student Loans Company, the Taught Programmes Office is also required to submit an individual report to the Student Loans Company, giving details of the circumstances leading up the student´s failure and an indication of their likely future success. Where students are repeating because they were 'Not Assessed' the Taught Programmes Office will be in touch with the relevant academic department at the appropriate time in order to gather the information needed to complete these reports, which are sent to Student Loans Company direct from Student Services.