Exams and coursework

Find out when exams results are scheduled to be published.

Contact us for enquiries about exams, including exam timetables, locations, papers and individual exam needs.

Find out when upcoming exams are taking place.

Find out about exam resits including fees.

Find out about the different exam formats - remote and in-person - and the restrictions that might apply to the materials you are allowed to use.

Find out about late submission of coursework (and online exams) and how to make a claim.

Find how to make an extenuating circumstances claim.

Find out how your extenuating circumstances application is processed and assessed.

If you took an assessment, but you didn’t pass all your modules, this information outlines what you need to do next in terms of reassessment.

Find out how you can select your reassessment outcome choices.

Find out what to do if you need to take a reassessment this summer.

Find out what to do if you need to repeat a year.

Find out what you need to know if you decide to repeat modules on a part-time basis.

If you have decided to be reassessed without attendance, you won’t be able to proceed to your next year of study until you have undertaken your reassessment.

If you choose to repeat the year on a different course, it’s important that you take these factors into account.

The implications of having failed 15 credits towards your overall degree.

The implications of having failed 30 credits towards your overall degree.

Find out what to do if you wish to proceed to the next year trailing 15 credits.

Find out what to do if you wish to proceed to the next year trailing 15 credits.

Find out what to do if you wish to proceed to the next year carrying 15 failed credits and trailing 15 failed credits.

The implications changing course and proceeding to the next year with failed credits.

Find out what to do if you wish to change course and proceed to the next year carrying your failed credits.

Find out what to do if you wish to change course carrying failed credits and trailing failed credits.

You may wish to return to undertake reassessment to turn failed marks into passes.

Details of the alternative awards that may be awarded.

This outcome is offered if you have failed a combination of modules you trailed from the previous Academic Year and current year modules.

Carry fails in trailed modules and re-register onto same year of study without trailed reassessment.

Carry failed trailed modules and re-register onto same year of study without trailed reassessment.

Carry fails in trailed modules as an intermitting student next year whilst undertaking reassessment without attendance in failed current year modules.

Find out what you need to know if you decide to repeat current year and undertake reassessment without attendance in previously trailed modules.

Find out what you need to know if you decide to repeat failed current year modules on a part-time basis undertake reassessment without attendance in previously trailed modules.

What you need to know if you're considering submitting an academic appeal.

Find out what happens after you've submitted your academic appeal.

Find out what options are available to you if you're unhappy with your appeal outcome.

An academic offence is an attempt to gain an unfair advantage in any formal assessment, such as coursework and exams.

Guidance on what to do if you're accused of committing an academic offence.

The process you need to follow if you wish to appeal against an academic offence penalty.

You can commit an offence even if you have no intention of cheating, so you must be vigilant when submitting work for assessment.

Find out about the University's policy on using generative AI in your studies.

An overview of the role of External Examiners at the University of Essex.