To continue to the next level of study, Level 3 and 4 students need to:

• Achieve an average of 40% across the year
• Achieve pass marks in at least 90 credits

Level 5 students must pass (or achieve a compensated pass*) in each unit in order to continue to Level 6. 

To be able to continue to your next year of study, you’re expected to submit meaningful attempts for all assessments.

If you’re on a professionally accredited programme, such as Nursing, you’ll have specific regulations required by external regulators. Check with your Programme Lead to find out the regulations that apply to your programme.

• *You can receive a compensated pass in a unit (up to 30 credits) at levels 3, 4, 5 and 6 if you achieve between 30% to 39% for the assessment(s) within that unit, and you also have an overall average of 40% or greater across the full 120 credits. 

Re-sits are capped at 40% for undergraduates, unless you have an approved evidenced extension application which allows an uncapped re-sit (explained below).

• If you fail up to 60 credits you'll be asked to re-sit in the summer re-sit period. The deadline should be added to Moodle. If you’re unsure check with the unit leader when your deadline will be. 60 credits normally equate to two units and each year you will usually study 120 credits.
• If you fail more than 60 credits but less than 120 you'd be expected to repeat the failed units over the next academic year, you cannot move onto the next year until you pass the failed units.
  • By default, this would be without attendance, but you can ask to do it with attendance. Without attendance means you don't receive a student loan and don't pay fees. You cannot usually apply for govenmernt benefits either but speak to us so we can confirm.
  • With attendance means you do receive a student loan and do pay fees for the time you are attending the failed units.
  • If you have units which have been deferred (i.e., had Assessment Mitigation accepted) this may allow you to re-sit in the summer instead but check with us if you are unsure.
• If you fail 120 credits, you’ll need to score at least 20% as a year average to re-sit and you’ll be reassessed over the next academic year with attendance. With attendance means you receive a student loan, and you will be expected to pay tuition fees.

Get in touch for advice about the financial implications when you repeat a year. 

If you’re a final year undergraduate student and you have to re-sit one or more of your units, you’ll still be able to attend your graduation ceremony if you’ve passed at least 60 credits (this normally equates to two units). 

You’ll need to take your re-sits during the Summer.  

Each student is given one reassessment opportunity per unit.

If you fail a reassessment, you may be withdrawn from your programme. 

If you fail a reassessment, please get in touch to talk about your options. There may be possible grounds for an appeal or a late evidenced extension application.

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Most students receive their results at the end of their academic year via the Online Results Portal. You’ll receive text and email reminders before your results are published and again once they’re live. You can also check with the Student Hub or your tutor. 

Most students have an automatic right to one reassessment opportunity*. This will be capped at 50% (unless you have an approved evidenced extension allowing it to be uncapped). 

If you don’t pass following reassessment, you’ll be withdrawn from University. Contact us for advice if this happens – you may be able to submit an academic appeal or submit a late evidenced extension claim. 

However where a Master of Fine Art student fails one 60-credit module, they will have the opportunity for reassessment in that module. If the student fails both MFA-level modules, they will be awarded the fallback award of MA in the relevant subject to which they are entitled without an opportunity to resit the failed MFA module.

Some students can be given a compensated pass in taught whole units where they achieve a weighted average mark between 40% and 49%. You must have an overall average of 50% or greater across the total 120 taught credits. 

For the award of PGCert, a student will be allowed compensated passes in a maximum of 15 credits for the 60 total taught credits; for the award of PGDip a student will be allowed compensated passes in a maximum of 30 credits for the total 120 taught credits; for the award of masters degree a student will be allowed compensated passes in a maximum of 30 credits for the total 120 taught credits.

Please check your course handbook as compensation doesn’t apply for all courses. 

Here's the Postgraduate Assessment regulation guide the University have created.  

Some courses have specific regulations, so make sure you check yours for specific info.

You can ask for an extension;

1. Self-Certification Extension

• Allows you to apply for a short (up to 2 days) extension for some assessments
• Doesn't require you to submit evidence
• Isn't available for event-based assessments, e.g., exams or tests
• Needs to be applied between a week before your assessment due date and the deadline
• Find out more information on assessments and results 

2. Evidenced Extensions (previously called Exceptional Factors)

• Let’s you apply for a longer extension, usually up to 2 weeks, if you’re going through a difficult period, such as ill health, bereavement, or personal problems
• Is available for exams and tests as well as coursework
• Requires evidence which covers the deadline period to support your claim
  • If you can’t think of any evidence, you might be able to submit, contact us. An Adviser may be able to think of some evidence that you can provide that you hadn't thought of, such as confirmation from a religious leader, a counsellor, an employer, an Order of Service, a tutor or a police officer
• Evidenced extensions can be submitted up to one week after your assessment deadline
  • You can submit a late evidenced extension, but you'll have to include evidence which covers the submission date, and it needs to explain why you couldn’t submit the claim on time e.g., you were unwell on the submission date and have been hospitalised since. You'd need medical evidence to support this claim 
• The Advice Centre can help you to put together an Evidenced Extensions case if you'd like support with it, but we don’t decide the outcome.
• More information on the Uni’s information on assessments guide

3. Do you have a disability or a long-term health condition?

• You should consider applying for a Personal Learning Plan from the University Disability Service as extensions can be arrange via the PLP

Firstly, check if you can get an Evidenced Extension or a self-certification extension (see above).

If you can’t get an extension and can’t meet the deadline, you can use the late submission window. This means you can submit your assignment up to 7 calendar days after the original deadline (before 21:00) and it will still be marked. However, your work will be capped at the pass mark of 40% for undergraduates and 50% for postgraduates

This applies to first attempts only, including reassessments as if for the first time.

You can not use it for a re-sit. You cannot use it for an exam or tests. If you submit these late, they will receive a mark of 0.

Yes, you can submit an appeal within 14 days of the publication of your results. You can challenge your results by submitting a Material Irregularity (MI) appeal. Material irregularity means you can show that the university has made a mistake with your results or with your assessments. For example, the wrong exam paper was given out or the invigilator stopped an exam too early.

You can’t submit an appeal because you disagree with the mark you have been given. Instead, you’ll need to explain and provide evidence as to why the mark is wrong. For example, if the marking process wasn’t followed correctly.

Once you have your marks chat to the unit leader or programme leader first to see if there is some quick solution they can offer. If not, you can consider a formal appeal based on Material irregularity.

However, if you feel your marks were affected by ill health or bereavement, you can consider submitting a late evidence extension request instead. This is similar to an appeal, but you follow the usual process for an extension and explain why you didn’t submit your case within 7 days of the deadline as explained here under the title Extensions.

To make an appeal you need to complete an online form and provide evidence in support of your case.

Think carefully about the reasons why your results are wrong and gather as much evidence as you can. For example, if your results show an incorrect mark provide a screenshot of the correct mark.

A material irregularity appeal should be submitted within 14 days of receiving your results.

The team who process your academic appeal are called Student Case Management. Call 0161 247 1095 or email scm@mmu.ac.uk

You can contact us at s.u.advice@mmu.ac.uk if you want to chat more about submitting an appeal.

If your appeal is successful, you’ll usually be given another opportunity to do the assessment again. 

An appeal is unlikely to mean that you’re given a higher mark unless the university have made a mistake with your results, such as incorrectly adding up the marks that you got for a unit.

If your appeal is refused, the original result will remain. 

Manchester Met offers a variety of support with academic skills. This includes one-to-one sessions, short courses and study skills online. Find out more on the University's Study Skills website.

If you have a long-term health condition, the University Study Skills team can also provide you with one-to-one appointments with Academic and Study Skills Tutors with SpLD specialism offering advice about the support available to you to help you succeed, including technology to support your learning.

If you have a long-term health condition (you may not consider it a disability) or disability of any kind (mental health difficulties, dyslexia, mobility impairments, sensory impairments, autism, or unseen disabilities like epilepsy), MMU Disability Support are there to support you throughout university.

They can help you to apply for Disabled Students’ Allowance, and can help you access the equipment and specialist help that you need, and they can also make sure that the support is tailored to your needs through a ‘Personal Learning Plan’ for you.

Contact them at disability.service@mmu.ac.uk or phone them on 0161 247 3491.

The University Study Skills team also provides students with one-to-one appointments with Academic and Study Skills Tutors with SpLD specialism offering advice about the support available to you to help you succeed, including technology to support your learning.

This means that the University suspect that you may have broken some of their academic rules. This could be an allegation of plagiarism, collusion (worked with another student), falsified data, using Artificial Intelligence or taking unauthorised materials into an exam.

You'll be given the opportunity to discuss what has happened with this assessment. 

Allegations usually fall under minor, major, or severe as explained in the Academic and Integrity and Misconduct Guide. 

You should've received evidence of the allegation with the invite, so look through that to try to understand what the allegation is.

The type of meeting and the possible outcomes can differ depending on your level of study so chat to us for guidance. However, try not to panic, it is very rare to be expelled due to academic misconduct unless you are found guilty of contract cheating (meaning someone wrote the assignment for you), large-group collusion or cheating and large-scale falsification of data. This will be dealt with through an assessment disciplinary panel, which will decide the outcome of the case. The default penalty for proven severe cases is normally failure of the course. If this happens, you will have an immediate right to appeal the outcome.

Get in touch with the Advice Centre before your meeting. We can talk to you about what to expect in your meeting and what sort of questions you’ll be asked. We can also help you to prepare and, if it’s a particularly difficult case or severe in nature, an adviser might be able to attend the meeting with you.

Yes, you can appeal a misconduct decision if you have grounds as explained here. These are: 

1. That a decision made at any stage of the process was unreasonable;
2. That there was a material and/or procedural irregularity (a mistake) in either the investigation (or Disciplinary Interview Panel) or the penalty setting, which has prejudiced your case
3. Additional evidence has come to light since the investigation or panel meeting which couldn’t have been expected to have been produced at the time of the panel meeting.
4. That the penalty imposed was disproportionate, or not permitted under the procedure 

You’ll need to complete an online form and provide any supporting evidence.

You must submit an appeal within 14 days of receiving an Academic Misconduct decision.

The team who process your appeal are called Student Case Management. Call 0161 247 1095, or email scm@mmu.ac.uk.

We can offer guidance on your appeal form before you submit it if you email us at s.u.advice@mmu.ac.uk.

Plagiarism includes copying an author’s work, not using quotation marks and changing the words in another person’s work to make it seem like your own. You can also ‘self-plagiarise’ when you include bits of your own work that you’ve previously submitted for another assignment.

Collusion is copying another student’s work or letting your work be copied. This can be a common problem during group work, so you need to be clear where the boundaries are and ask your tutor if you aren’t sure. Sometimes students feel pressured to share their work with their friends, but this isn’t allowed, and you can both get a penalty even if you did all the work.

Cheating involves taking unauthorised material into an exam.

Further explanation of the different types of academic misconduct in the Academic Integrity and Misconduct guide. 

Also, make sure help with your writing skills from the Study Skills Team, so you know how to avoid academic misconduct. 

Please be cautious of using AI in your assessments, the University could consider this as academic misconduct and you could be withdrawn from the course (expelled). Check with your unit leader about what usage is acceptable. The university have written this page about AI.

If you’re struggling, you’ve got options: try speaking to your tutors, chat to the Study Skills Team or the Disability Team, or submitting an Extension request. Please do not get third party help as this could result in an academic misconduct meeting. 

If you’ve missed a lot of classes or haven’t submitted work, the university can take steps to withdraw you due to your lack of engagement with the course.

This is why it’s important to let your department know if you’re having difficulties (you can find contact details in Moodle or ask the Student Hub), ensure you check your attendance online and submit extension requests (explained in ‘extensions’ above) if you cannot make your deadlines.

The University should write to you on at least two occasions before they withdraw you. They should only withdraw you if you don’t get in touch with them to discuss your situation and if you haven't improved your attendance.

Contact us if you’ve been withdrawn due to non-engagement and we can help you to appeal the decision. You only have 7 days to appeal so please seek help as soon as possible. 

You will need to fit specific grounds to appeal and provide supporting evidence. Read more about appealing against a withdrawal.

The University operates a Fitness to Study policy, when there are concerns about whether a student can fully engage and succeed with their studies (for example, if a student’s health is affecting them progressing on their course).

The University will consider whether additional support needs to be put in place. If you’re invited to a meeting about this, we can provide advice and guidance - so do contact us.

The Fitness to Practise procedure is used when staff have concerns about a student meeting the required professional standards of their course.

A student may be considered unfit to practise for one of a variety of reasons. Grounds for determining that a student is unfit to practise include but are not limited to:

• failure to meet or comply with the professional requirements related to the programme;
• failure to adhere to the professional standards specified for training purposes;
• unsuitability to undertake professional practice or placement, for example receipt of a criminal conviction which rendered the student unable to practise;
• evidence of being unfit to practise, for example as a result of inappropriate conduct or health issues;
• acquisition of a status such as a relevant criminal conviction or serious contravention of the University Student Code of Conduct, which renders continuation on the programme or award inappropriate

See the Fitness to Practice procedure for further details.

Contact the Advice Centre if you’re invited to a meeting to discuss your professional suitability on a course.

The Student Code of Conduct procedure deals with any behaviour that affects the safety or well-being of students or staff at the University such as bullying, harassment, assault, drug use or criminal behaviour. 

Students can raise a complaint against another student through this procedure and it will be investigated by the University and potentially the police. 

Contact us if you’re invited to a meeting to discuss your conduct.