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CANADIAN GRADE CONVERSION80797877 A7675747372 A-7170696867 B+6665646362 B6160595857 B-5654535251 C+50494847 C464544 C-4342 D+41 D40 D-39 and below: FAIL. Ie, a grade E+ or lowerHaving applied this scale and taking account of module weightings (some modules are credited more heavilythan others) we arrive at one percentage mark for the year. Remember that the IS mark is a pass/fail mark and isnot included in this percentage mark. This is because the work will count towards your dissertation mark inyour final year.IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT RESITS FOR YEAR 3 AND MITIGATIONSPLEASE TRY HARD NOT TO FAIL OUT ON ANY MODULES!! If you fail a module in the firstsemester or quarter, please inform the Year Abroad Tutor asap! If you experience any health or seriousproblems affecting your academic performance, please contact the ACS Welfare Tutor and Year AbroadTutor at the earliest opportunity, and collect evidence so that we can support your case for mitigations ifnecessary.Here is the detail on resits (which has been formally approved by the University of Birmingham):-Information about grades, pass/fails etc is collected from students electronically by the ACSAdministrative staff in liaison with the ACS tutor in as timely fashion as possible duringDecember/January and again in April/May/June of the Study Year Abroad, so that the need for anyresits can be determined and resit work set during the final weeks of term 3.
The ACS Exams Officer is responsible for ensuring that resits are set, marked and returned to theappropriate Exam Boards.In order to pass the year abroad students must gain a minimum mark of C- in US or D- in theCanadian systems (which are equivalent to a UoB mark of 40) in every module and complete andpass their Independent Study (the grade for this will not be entered into the calculations for the yearabroad mark since the IS represents the foundation of the final year dissertation).In the event of astudent failing a module or modules, failing to enrol for the required amount of modules/credits, orfailing to enrol in Independent Study,or failing their Independent Study, or any combination of theabove, the provision for resits is as follows:Resits for courses and independent study will take the form of an essay, to be marked at amaximum of 40.The length of the essay will vary according to the number of credits to be made up, at the rateof 2,500 words per 10 credits.Resits will usually be set in late June and deadlines will fall in late Aug/early Sept exam resitperiod.The student’s final mark will be calculated from the converted mark for courses passed whileabroad (minus IS) (see conversion charts), plus any 40% resit marks.Mitigations and Welfare IssuesIf a student has submitted evidence for mitigations by the advertised deadlines and the Junemitigations board approve the mitigations, then any failed or missing courses will be retaken over thesummer, as detailed above, but treated as ‘sit’s and thus marked using the full range of grades.Welfare issues involving students on year abroad will be directed to the Welfare tutor for ACS andmitigations submitted to them by the student concerned according to the University time-tables
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