Compensation
Undergraduate Examination Conventions J34 and J35
Integrated Masters Examination Conventions J34 and J35
Postgraduate Taught Examination Conventions K35 to K41
Supplementary notes:
- Note that compensation is allowed in up to 40 credits of a stage of an Undergraduate, Integrated Masters or Taught Masters degree or a Postgraduate Diploma (J34(d) and K35, K36), except for the final stage of an Undergraduate or Integrated Masters degree. Up to 20 credits can be compensated for a PG Certificate and in cases where a student has registered for a small number of credits to top-up a lower award (K37, K38).Some programmes may have exemptions from these regulations included in their Programme Regulations.
- Note that it is not necessarily the most recent mark for a module that will be used for the purposes of a compensation calculation: it is the best mark available. This implies that spreadsheets of marks must ensure that earlier marks are retained and not, for example, overwritten by more recent ones. Indeed, all marks must be available to the Board of Examiners (Undergraduate Examination Convention P59, Postgraduate Taught Examination Convention R56).
- When a student carries a failed non-core module in the next Stage, the Board of Examiners will make a decision on that module in terms of the Stage it was originally taken in. In particular carried modules can be passed by compensation with the rules of compensation applied to the original Stage. See Example 7a.
- Examples of calculations, involving various forms of compensation, are given in Appendix 2 (Examples 2, 3 and 4).
