Results FAQs

Degree classifications are based on your overall degree result (a percentage figure), which is calculated from the year average marks for some or all of your years of study. For example, many of our three-year degrees use the year averages from the second and third years, weighted equally at 50% each, but check your course handbook for information specific to you. Year averages are calculated from your overall module marks, which are weighted according to their credit value (e.g., 15 credits or 30 credits).

With the current industrial action, you may be wondering how your degree classification will be calculated if marks are missing in your final year…

If a mark is missing for one or more of the assessments that contribute to a module, Exam Boards can take this into account and can still classify your degree.

So, where at least half of your marks (50%) needed for a module are available, your department can use this information to agree a final overall module mark.

This overall module mark will then be used, along with your other module marks from this year, to calculate your year average. This will be added to marks from previous years of study to work out your degree classification. The year marks are combined using the existing weightings of each of year of study in published information.

The University’s regulation for these circumstances allows for up to 30% of your degree-weighted credits in total to be missing from the years of study that count towards your final degree.

Let’s look at a quick example

Your total number of credits for a degree is usually 360 credits.

For many courses, first-year results do not count towards your final classification.

So, each year still has 120 credits, but in this example, it’s only second year and third year that count towards the final degree classification.

This means that in total there would be 240 degree-weighted credits used to calculate the final degree classification; 120 credits from second year and 120 credits from final year.

If there were 60 credits missing in the final year, it’s still possible to gain a degree classification because this is within the 30% threshold.

60 credits of 240 credits would mean only 25% of your marks are missing.

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Note that if you have already graduated with a classified degree, your final degree classification will only change if it improves as a result of a higher average year mark, your degree classification would not go down.

If you weren’t able to submit work, or your work was marked and didn’t achieve a pass mark, you may be offered an opportunity to resubmit or resit to pass the module. If this is an option for you, you will see this in results information for the relevant module(s) on Tabula.  

Where marks become available after your graduate, the overall module mark will be reviewed, based on all the work you have submitted for the module. 

Our response is based on the University's Regulation 41Link opens in a new window.

If you submitted a mitigating circumstance claim by the deadline, then your circumstances will have been considered by the Board of Examiners.

If you have failed any modules, you are likely to be offered uncapped further first attempts.

If you are going to be considered at a later exam board (because you are a non-finalist or you are a finalist with some missing marks), then your circumstances may have been referred for consideration at the next board.

If you have not failed any modules, your circumstances and grade profile may make it possible to promote you to a higher classification. However, in some cases even though you have accepted mitigating circumstances, there may be no impact on your classification.

If you are on the borderline of a classification and all of your module marks are available, your classification decision will be made in the usual way.

The University’s policy under Regulation 41, is that borderline candidates should only be considered under existing borderline standards where all modules have numerical marks. Where there is a missing module mark or a pass/fail mark for one or more modules in the final year, we will review your profile again where all remaining marks have become available. This includes considering your degree classification if you remain in the borderline range. Classifications decisions will not go down as a result of new marks being taken into account.

Where mitigating circumstances have been accepted that would normally form part of the consideration for borderline cases and there is not a full profile of numerical marks, it is not possible to be considered for a higher degree classification. Where all numerical marks become available, the mitigating circumstances will be considered with the numerical marks and, where indicated, an updated decision will be made.

Where the code ‘FM’ is shown on your results on Tabula, this indicates that a mark is not yet available for reasons outside of your control (Force Majeure). Where missing marks become available, they will be updated in Tabula and the ‘FM’ will be removed.

You will be contacted via your Warwick student email account with updates on missing marks and review of decisions, including when these can be expected.

For final-year undergraduates who have a full marks profile and are graduating in July 2023, your complete, finalised HEARLink opens in a new window will be available via GradIntel in mid to late August 2023, following validation and recording of your academic data. You will receive a notification to the email address associated with your GradIntel account. For final-year undergraduates who have a review decision, your HEAR will be updated where marks become available.

Your degree and module results only, however, will be made available via your HEAR in July, before the July graduation ceremonies. Find out how to access your GradIntel account and HEAR via the FAQs towards the bottom of this pageLink opens in a new window.

You will be able to give third parties, such as potential employers or other Higher Education institutions, secure access to your HEAR. It is intended that the information provided on the HEAR will prove useful both to graduates entering the job market and to employers, as well as other Higher Education institutions.

Where marks are not yet available, please see this FAQLink opens in a new window detailing how any missing marks will be shown on your HEAR and how to access a letter from the Academic Registrar explaining that for some modules in the academic year 2022/23, marking has not yet taken place. Where missing marks become available, your HEAR will be updated as necessary and you will receive a notification via email.

If you are a finalist and wish to take the reassessment(s), you must opt-in by 12 July 2023 by completing this form. Please note, if you opt-in to reassessments, you will not be able to graduate in the summer and will be invited to attend the winter Graduation ceremony in January. The September reassessment period is between Wednesday 30 August and Tuesday 12 September 2023.

If you are not a finalist, you will automatically be entered for the reassessment in the next reassessment period (between Wednesday 30 August and Tuesday 12 September 2023). If you do not wish to take this reassessment, then please opt-out using this form by Thursday 10 August 2023. Please note, centrally timetabled examinations will still appear on your timetable, however, you may ignore this if you have completed a form opting-out from the reassessments.