End of Year Results
Overview
Exam Boards are formal meetings of department staff to review student progress and award degrees. Exam Boards are held in June-July to review student grades for the year. Further Exam Boards are held in September to review students with reassessments.
- Exam Boards for First and Intermediate Year students review whether students can progress to the next academic year.
- The Final Year Exam Board awards classified degrees. This board is attended by external examiners as well as departmental staff.
- All Exam Boards can award reassessments.
Getting your results
Information about results day: when and how you'll get your end of year results, how to understand them and where to go for support.
Academic Progression
Academic progression is governed by University Progression Conventions.
Progression Requirements
First Year Students
Students are required to pass 90 credits (including required core modules) with an overall average mark of 40% 鈥媋cross all 120 credits to progress to the next year of study. A student that fails to meet these requirements will be required to resit the relevant exams and resubmit the relevant essays. The required core modules can be found in the Syllabi.
Intermediate Year Students
For an undergraduate student to progress from their second year to their third year, or from their third year to their fourth year, they must meet the following requirements:
- To progress to the next year of an Honours degree (or the next level of study in the case of part-time degree students), a candidate must normally have passed at least 90* credits and have an overall mean of at least 40.0%.
- To progress to the intercalated year, a candidate must have passed at least 90 credits and have an overall mean of at least 60.0%
- To progress from an intercalated year (for credit) to the next year of study, a candidate must normally have passed at least 50% of the year abroad credits.
- To progress from an intercalated year (not for credit) to the next year of study, students must pass their year abroad.
Issues with progression
If you are experiencing any difficulties which are preventing you from studying and progressing as you would wish, please make the most of the support available.
You may be asked to complete reassessments before you can graduate or proceed to your next year of study. Please see our dedicated Reassessments page.
In rare and severe circumstances, it may be appropriate for you to defer an assessments during an official University examination period. You must discuss this with your personal tutor and Year Senior Tutor.
Final year students
Please note that there are different regulations for students commencing their programme of study in different years:
- Students who began their degree from 21/22 onwards are governed by Rules for Award
- Students who began their degree before 21/22 are governed by University Regulations: Degree Conventions
This information handbook is for students on courses where History is the home department. Students on joint degree courses where History is not the home department must refer to the handbooks/websites of the Department which administers their degree for information on how their degree will be classified.
Degree classification
For all students commencing their programme of study from the Academic year 2021/22:
For students starting bachelors or Integrated Masters Degrees from the 2021/22 academic year onward, decisions about progression from one stage of the course to the next, and decisions about the final award or classification are set out in the Rules for Award 2021-22 and Appendix A: Degree Classifications 2021-22. This details calculations used to determine your final classification and the minimum credit requirements by level of study for an award to be made.
For the award of a Bachelors degree a student must meet specific credit requirements achieving a minimum 270 credits (or CATS) across the degree course including a minimum of 90 credits at FHEQ level 6. Full details can be viewed in Appendix A of the Rules for Award here: Appendix A: Degree Classifications.
A student's final degree classification is based on all of the assessed work completed in their second and final years of study. The second year and final year are equally weighted.
All modules taken by History students (including outside options that have been approved by the Year Director), are considered equally in calculation of the degree classification.
For students graduating in 2026/27 onwards:
- For the award of a Bachelor鈥檚 degree a student must meet specific credit requirements achieving a minimum 270 credits (or CATS) across the degree course including a minimum of 90 credits at FHEQ level 6.
- A student's final degree classification is based on all of the assessed work completed in their second and final years of study.
- The second year and final year are equally weighted.
- All modules taken by History students are considered equally in calculation of the degree classification.
- Single honours students must pass a minimum of 60 CATS of History Department modules at FHEQ level 6 in order to graduate.
- Joint Honours students must pass a minimum of 30 CATS of History Department modules at FHEQ level 6 and 30 CATS of modules in their partner department at FHEQ level 6.
- Full details can be viewed in Appendix A of the Rules for Award here: Appendix A: Degree Classifications.
Borderline cases
Consideration of UG borderline cases
Where a student鈥檚 award classification average is within 2.0 percentage points to the higher classification, the student should be promoted if:
- More than 50% of credits counting towards the final classification are at or above the class boundary (135CATs out of 240CATS), OR
- Exactly 50% of credits (120CATS) counting towards the final classification are above the class boundary, and either:
- The average in the final year is above the class boundary; OR
- Average performance in core modules is above the class boundary
If a student has up to 30 credits of module marks which end in a 9 in the immediate lower degree classification, this will be treated as marks lying in the higher degree class (without any change to any average calculations) if this meant that they now satisfy this borderline criteria.
After Exam Boards
Transcripts
Undergraduate students will all receive a Higher Education Achievement Report, which is updated throughout your studies to reflect your module results and other academic achievements that have been verified by the university. Please note that the Department is not able to supply records of results or 鈥渢ranscripts鈥� independently from the HEAR, nor can we send copies of the HEAR to third parties on your behalf.
When you finish your degree, you will receive a Degree Certificate alongside your HEAR. Usually this is presented at your Graduation Ceremony. If you are not able to attend graduation, or if you need a replacement copy, it can be posted to you.
Exit Awards
Exit awards have been developed in order to recognise the achievement of undergraduate students where it was not possible to award the highest qualification for which they were registered, this includes students as follows:
- who have not met progression requirements
- who withdraw due to personal or medical reasons
- who are restarting on another degree programme
There is an expectation that Boards of Examiners will make a recommendation to allow a student to remedy failure (e.g. resit, resit without residence as appropriate), wherever possible, to allow students an opportunity to progress, and only recommend an exit qualification where these possibilities have been exhausted (or are not available).
Graduation
Undergraduate students normally graduate in the Summer Degree Congregation in July.
Students who graduate following reassessments may be part of the Winter Degree Congregation in January.
Please refer to the Awards and Ceremonies webpages for all graduation information.
Appeals
There are specific circumstances which allow final year students to appeal against the award of a degree class or for first and intermediate students to appeal against a decision that they be required to withdraw. Full details may be found on the University鈥檚 Appeal pages.