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How many times can I repeat exam?

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  • 06-01-2010 7:22pm
    #1
    penny1001
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭


    Hi,
    I have to repeat an engineering exam but not sure if i'm ready for it!
    It is my first repeat(obviously 2nd time doing paper). If I fail this is that me finished or do I get a 2nd repeat?
    Thanks,
    Penny


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    #2
    68 lost souls
    Registered Users Posts: 3,989 ✭✭✭68 lost souls


    3 strikes system. You can repeat it again in the summer if you fail.


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    Naikon
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,564 ✭✭✭Naikon


    Does this "rule" apply across every third level college or
    just DIT? Surely someone repeating an exam five times
    generates a sum of money from DIT?

    Or if you fail the last attempt, are you banished from
    DIT, sent down to trinity, hung, and buried in a british
    coffin? Having a college place is not like having a job.


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    BC
    Registered Users Posts: 1,326 ✭✭✭BC


    Each college as their own rules. Also the rules may differ for different subjects (depending on how 'criticial' the subject is deemed to be). DIT used to have a limit on the number of attempts but that seems to have been taken out of the latest version of the regulations (http://www.dit.ie/services/academicregistrar/student-assessment-regulations/general/) so i'm not sure if its an indefinite number of attempts now. The programme document is probably the best place to look.


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    penny1001
    Closed Accounts Posts: 52 ✭✭penny1001


    Thanks for replies. I just wanted to be sure,
    Penny


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    ditpaintball
    Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭ditpaintball


    In DIT you have 4 attempts at any exam. Fail the 4th and you may not be able to sit that exam for a number of years.

    If you are a first year for example, it could go something like this:

    1st year Summer maths - Fail
    1st Year September Maths - Fail

    If it is just one, you may be allowed to carry it into 2nd year.

    2nd year - 3rd attempt at summer paper = fail
    2nd year setpember - 4th attampt at maths paper = better pass


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    mark renton
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,696 ✭✭✭mark renton


    ditpaintball wrote: »
    In DIT you have 4 attempts at any exam. Fail the 4th and you may not be able to sit that exam for a number of years.

    If you are a first year for example, it could go something like this:

    1st year Summer maths - Fail
    1st Year September Maths - Fail

    If it is just one, you may be allowed to carry it into 2nd year.

    2nd year - 3rd attempt at summer paper = fail
    2nd year setpember - 4th attampt at maths paper = better pass

    1st year Summer maths - Fail
    1st Year September Maths - Fail


    are these the same fails?


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    ditpaintball
    Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭ditpaintball


    They will be fails in the same subject / course year.

    Example

    4th Year Maths - 2008 Semester 1
    4th year maths - 2008 Semester 1 repeats
    4th year maths - 2009 semester 1
    4th year maths - 2009 semester 1 repeats

    Is that any clearer?


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    30d1a
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭30d1a


    i'm an external repeat ..

    i failed exams in 2nd year and an Engineering course, both the semester exam then the repeat...

    had my 3rd attempt this week but a bit unsure about it,

    so do I hav one last try in August if the **** hits the fan?


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    ditpaintball
    Registered Users Posts: 993 ✭✭✭ditpaintball


    30d1a wrote: »
    i'm an external repeat ..

    i failed exams in 2nd year and an Engineering course, both the semester exam then the repeat...

    had my 3rd attempt this week but a bit unsure about it,

    so do I hav one last try in August if the **** hits the fan?


    Thats right, if you failed..... make sure you don't fail again in the autumn ;)


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