Results and progression

You need to pass the full 120 credits to move onto your main degree programme. 

Some programmes also have minimum average module mark that you need to achieve. You should check your programme information documents or speak to your Foundation Year lead for clarification. 

You need to achieve a minimum of 90 credits on most courses. 

If you are studying a professional registered healthcare course you will need 120 credits to progress. Please speak with your school for further details.

If you are studying combined honours course, your failed credits can’t all be in the same subject (e.g. if you have failed a 30-credit module in one subject, you instead be given options to repeat the year). 

Your failed or missing credits need to still have an assessment opportunity remaining. 

You need to have achieved all 120 credits at Level 4. 

You also need to achieve a minimum of 105 credits at Level 5.  

If you are studying a professional registered healthcare course you will need 120 credits to progress. Please speak with your school for further details.

Your failed or missing credits need to still have an assessment opportunity remaining. 

You will need to pass 120 credits per year of study to achieve your full degree. 

This includes elective and/or optional modules which although may not be core to your degree subject, count towards the required credits. 

If you are studying a professional registered healthcare course you will also need to have completed all the placement elements of your programme.

You will not be able to progress to the next year of study, as you no longer have any assessment opportunities remaining to complete these modules. 

Instead, you will be offered options to repeat the year (provided you have not previously had a repeat year due to academic failure).

This may differ if you are on a professional registered healthcare course, Please contact your school for further details.

You will be able to take reassessments in August to attempt to achieve the credits you need to progress. 

If you still haven’t achieved the credits needed after the reassessments, you will be offered options to repeat the year (provided you have not previously had a repeat year due to academic failure).

This may differ if you are on a professional registered healthcare course, Please contact your school for further details.

This means that you have had an EC approved to resit the module as a first attempt. 

This means that you have had an EC approved to resit the module as a second attempt (i.e. the assessment was already your second attempt which your EC was approved for). 

If you have achieved the minimum credits, then yes you can carry these reassessments into next year. However, this is a risk as if you fail the module/s in the next academic year, you will have no more opportunities remaining to repeat and will be withdrawn. 

If you haven’t achieved the minimum credits, you can’t carry these modules into next year. You will instead have to take one of the repeat year options. 

If you have achieved enough credits to progress but your failed credits are in an elective module, you will study a different replacement module next academic year. 

No – you still need to have achieved the minimum credit requirements before progressing to the next year of study.

This is because you have not achieved the required learning outcomes to study at a higher level, and taking these additional modules would make your workload will be too high.

Repeat full time:

• You will retake all your modules regardless of if your originally passed or failed
• You are required to attend teaching and learning for all modules
• Assessments are reset to first attempt, so you will not be capped
• Tuition fees are charged in full
• If you are funded by Student Finance, you can receive tuition fee funding for one repeat year
• You will receive your maintenance loan as normal
  

Repeat part-time / modular:

• You will retake your failed modules only and keep the marks for the modules you have passed
• You are required to attend teaching and learning for your failed modules
• Assessments for the modules you are retaking are reset to first attempt, so you will not be capped
• Tuition fees are charged on a pro-rata basis
• If you are funded by Student Finance, you can receive tuition fee funding for one repeat year
• You will receive your maintenance loan while in attendance

Repeat assessment only:

• You will take reassessments of your failed modules
• You are not required or able to attend teaching and learning
• Assessments will be taken at the next attempt, so if you have failed the first attempt without an approved EC will be capped
• You will not be charged tuition fees
• You will not be eligible to receive your maintenance loan

If you need further advice on the financial implications of repeating a year of study, please contact Student Financial Support.

No – you will be repeating the year studying only these modules as you are not allowed to progress to the next level until you have achieved the required credits. 

Please note that 'repeat in part' is not offered for some professional registered health care courses. 

If your previous repeat was due to a leave of absence, you will be offered another repeat year. 

If your previous repeat was due to academic failure (not meeting the credit requirements) you will not be offered another repeat and will be withdrawn. Your only other option is to submit an appeal. 

Please note that students on a professional registered healthcare course may not be offered a repeat year without exceptional circumstances.

You will need to speak with ASK (Advice and Support at Keele) in the Students’ Union.

Please note that your Student Experience and Support Officer cannot offer you guidance with this process as you are appealing against a university decision. 

No, if you have achieved the credit requirements for progression then you must proceed to the next year of study. 

The only exception to this would be if you had valid exceptional circumstances and reasons for not disclosing these at the time, and therefore had grounds to appeal against your progression decision. 

Condonement is applied by the exam board if you’ve passed all other modules if the following conditions are met:

• The mark mustn’t be a qualified fail (this will show as QF on your results).
• Both attempts on the module must have been used. 
• Your module mark is between 30-39 if you started your course pre-September 2022, or between 35-39 if you started your course post-September 2022. 

You can get 30 credits condoned in total across Levels 4 and 5 - either 15 credits in each year or 30 credits in one year and none in the other year.   

In Level 6 you can get up to 30 credits condoned. 

Please note this does not apply to professional registered healthcare programmes. 

Student Finance fund students for the full length of your degree course plus one additional year, minus any previous periods of study. 

If you have not previously used repeat year funding, you will be able to receive your usual funding. 

If you have already used repeat year funding, you may be able to apply to Student Finance for compelling personal reasons. This is a Student Finance process therefore the university is not involved in the decision making. 

Students on an Allied Health professional programme in receipt of the NHS Learning Support Fund will not be eligible for a repeat year of Learning Support Fund unless you have exceptional circumstances.  Please contact your Student Experience and Support Officer for further details.

If you repeat in full, your tuition fees will be the usual annual tuition fee. 

If you repeat in part, your fees will be calculated on a pro-rata basis; i.e. you will pay per module such as 2/8 of the total tuition fee.