Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences

If you feel your final mark for a unit, or your mark for an individual assignment in a unit, may be incorrect, you should contact the lecturer / unit co-ordinator straight away to ask that the mark be checked.

If no error is found in the calculation of the mark, ask your lecturer / unit co-ordinator for feedback on your work - they may be able to suggest ways of improving your results. Please note that the unit co-ordinator will not re-mark your work on request.

In the case of an individual assignment, if you believe that your mark does not fairly represent the academic worth of the work you have submitted, relative to established standards and the work of other students, you may write to the PSB Programme Executive, who in turn will submit your request to the Head of School, requesting a re-assessment. You must state good grounds for your belief, and you must make the request within 20 University working days of receiving the original result.

In the case of a final result for a unit, if (after a marks check and feedback on your performance) you believe that your mark does not fairly represent the academic worth of the work you have submitted, relative to the established standards and the work of other students, you may submit a formal appeal to the Head of School. You must do this within 20 University working days of the official release of results on the web. You must fill in the appeal form and submit it together with your own written statement setting out the grounds of your case, to the PSB Programme Executive, who will submit your application to the Faculty.

Before submitting a formal appeal it can be helpful to discuss your case with the lecturer / unit coordinator or the Head of School. An appeal is never successful simply on the grounds that you are disappointed with your result.

Proceedures for appeals

There are also procedures for appealing against other aspects of assessment, such as:

• an appeal against progress status has to do only with whether the status has been correctly applied; if you wish to request a waiver of sanction (suspension or exclusion), see satisfactory/unsatisfactory progress,
• outcome of a request for special consideration
• outcome of scaling of results, or disadvantage arising because a unit is assessed differently from what was announced in the "assessment mechanism statement"
• general grievances about your dealings with the University.

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