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Pass rules for Postgraduate Diploma and Certificate

Assessment Regulations for MSc, Postgraduate Diploma, Postgraduate Certificate

Taught Course Units

Taught Course Units

For the MSc, each student will be assessed on 90 credits worth of coursework and/or examination questions. The University regulations are at: http://documents.manchester.ac.uk/DocuInfo.aspx?DocID=13148

Pass Rules for individual course units:

Individual course units are assessed as follows: a pass at MSc level is awarded if the overall mark for the course unit is at least 50%. For a pass at diploma or certificate level, an overall mark for the course unit of 40% is required.

Pass Rules for course units on MSc programmes

A candidate for the MSc degree must pass 90 credits� worth of taught course unit.

Failed course units may be re-sat, by re-submitting coursework and/or re-taking exams, following recommendations from the MSc Examination Board. The resits will be considered a second attempt (called a referral) and the resulting mark for this course unit will be computed as follows:

if the first attempt was below 40%, it will be the result of the second attempt capped at 40% (please note that the cap is applied to the course unit mark, not to partial marks) and
otherwise, the (uncapped) mark of the first attempt.

In case for mitigating circumstances, and following the school's process (see also Section *), a student may be allowed to resit course units as first attempt (called a deferral), where no cap will be applied.

Compensated pass:

Students may be awarded a compensated pass for a Masters degree when they fail no more than 30 credits and receive a mark between 40 and 49% for those failed credits.

Failed units:

The maximum allowable cumulative failure of course units in a Masters programme at the first attempt is 45 credits of the taught component of the programme.

A student whose failures at the first attempt exceed 45 credits will be deemed to have failed the programme. They will then be judged against the requirements for a pass on the Postgraduate Diploma programme. If this results in their failing less than or equal to 45 credits at Postgraduate Diploma level, the student may resit those units failed at Postgraduate Diploma level to obtain the award of Postgraduate Diploma.

The rules for degree classification are found in Section *. The final decision on whether a student passes is taken by the MSc Examination Board.

Taught Course Units