Final Year Resits – Defer Graduation

If you are a final year UG Masters or Bachelors student who studied your final year modules for the first time during the 2024/25 academic session, you should be eligible to resit a failed modules(s).

If 2024/25 was a resit/repeat of your final year and therefore you have already had a resit/repeat attempt, you may not be eligible for a further attempt but should seek advice from your personal tutor or School Education Support Team.

Following the main assessment period, if you have gained enough credit to be awarded your degree classification (despite failing any module(s) including any modules that you have not been able to attempt due to extenuating circumstances), then the default position of your School will be to ‘graduate’ you via marks release. This will mean you are eligible to attend the July graduation ceremony, regardless of any outstanding module attempt(s) you have remaining. It is your responsibility to update your student record if you do not wish to graduate in July. Please note, even if you do not attend the ceremony in person, if you do not update your student record, you would be assumed absent and graduate ‘Absent.’

If you want to use the opportunity to retrieve any failed credits, this will require you to defer your graduation from July 2025 to December 2025 to be assessed again during the supplementary period.

This might feel like a difficult decision, but there's plenty of help and time to decide. Talk to your personal tutor, read the FAQs on this page, or contact your School for support.

Please note: if you opt to defer your graduation, it is your responsibility to ensure the form is completed by the deadline.

 

Once you are happy that you want to take final year resits, please complete the Final Year Resit form. (opens in new window)

You can also access this form via the Exams and Assessment section of the Student Gateway (opens in new window).


We value your feedback!

We have updated the Final Year Resit form for 2025. Once you have completed your application, we would welcome your feedback on the final year resit application form, to help us understand what works well and what could be improved. Please complete this short feedback form. Thank you for your support.

The form will be open from Monday 23rd June, 9am (UK time) to Friday 27th June, 5pm (UK time).  If you are getting an error when submitting the form, please email finalyearresit@contacts.bham.ac.uk.

If you are a postgraduate student, you are not able to apply for Final Year Resits, as this is only available for students on undergraduate programmes. Please email your School so they can advise you. You can find their email address on the Contact Your School page.

Your School will release your results shortly after they have been confirmed at the Board of Examiners. As soon as your results are available you will be able to view these on the Exams and Assessment section via the Student Gateway.

If your degree has been awarded, you can graduate in the December ceremonies without taking your resit opportunity. The modules with resit opportunities will display as a ‘Fail’ on your Academic Transcript. Modules that have not yet been attempted due to Extenuating Circumstances will display as 'NO RESULT'. If this is the case, you do not need to do anything further except to engage with any Graduation communications that you may receive.

No, unfortunately if you have not been awarded your degree in Online Results then you have not met the criteria required by your programme of study to be awarded. In this case, the Board of Examiners has recommended that you take resit assessments, and you will not be eligible to graduate.

Attending your Graduation means you give up the chance to resit any final year modules. Your final module marks and classification will remain as decided by the original Board of Examiners.

You may be eligible for a higher degree classification if you successfully complete your resits. However, it should be noted that only the pass mark for the module can contribute to your degree calculation should you successfully complete your resits. The pass mark for an undergraduate resit is usually 40.

Your overall weighted mean mark will increase but would only lead to a higher classification if your overall weighted mean mark was originally very close to the classification boundaries for the higher degree class, e.g. 2:2 to 2:1.

For further information relating to Assessment, Progression and Award you can visit UoB Regulations, (opens in a new window) and navigate to Section 7.

You should contact your personal tutor or Education Support Team for further guidance. Please make contact as soon as possible so that you can make your decision before the deadline of Friday 27 June 5pm (UK time). 

If you are finding the decision making process difficult and need wellbeing support you may wish to contact your College Wellbeing Team for further support.

 

 

 

Where your overall weighted mean is:

70 or above = Class I

60-69 = Class IIi

50-59 = Class IIii

40-49 = Class III

For further information relating to Assessment, Progression and Award you can visit UoB Regulations.

You may be eligible for a higher GPA score if you successfully complete your resits. However, it should be noted that only the pass mark for the module can contribute to your overall weighted mean mark should you successfully complete your resits. Pass mark for a UG resit is usually 40. For more information on GPA, including the GPA scale, please see our GPA FAQs.

Your overall weighted mean mark will be displayed on the Exams and Assessment section of the Student Gateway.

Your Academic Transcript will display all modules, marks and module outcomes including any modules that have been failed. Passing a final year module at a resit attempt would mean that this will be displayed as a pass and not a fail on your transcript.

You can contact your personal tutor or your School Education Support Team for further advice and support. 

If you are finding the decision making process difficult and need wellbeing support you may wish to contact your College Wellbeing Team for further support.

If you decided to defer your graduation in order to take a final year resit you will not be eligible to receive your degree certificate until your final award has been conferred at a degree congregation ceremony.

However, you may still request an Academic Transcript and you will be able to view and share your transcript via our secure document system.

Please note that your academic transcript will not display any interim award information as your original degree classification will have been removed from your record pending your resit outcome.

To obtain an Academic Transcript, please go to our Academic Transcripts page.

TSA aim to process all applications by the end of Friday 4th of July, and we will email you when your application has been processed. Please do not contact TSA until after this date has passed. We will not review emails requesting an update which are sent before this date.

If you have not heard from TSA after the 4th of July, please first check your spam and junk folders for emails from finalyearresit@contacts.bham.ac.uk. If you have not received an email, please email finalyearresit@contacts.bham.ac.uk. Please student ID number in your email.