LyIT - Useful information about fees, exams etc for students. Nov. 2010

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FEES & COST OF REPEATING.

Higher education can be very expensive. Under the “free fees” scheme fees for eligible students are paid by the central government exempt for registration fees where they apply. However “free fees” only applies to one payment per student per stage of a course. If a student has to repeat a year, or part of a year the student or their family will have to fund the repeat fees.

Repeating is expensive. Repeat students who have not passed exams by September or who are unable to carry modules become liable for both Tuition fees (which currently range from €1368 (Level 6) and Registration fees (€1500). These fees are spread across the number of modules the student is repeating.

Students also lose all grant entitlements for the repeat year. Depending on the level of grant they had been getting, the combined cost to a student of having to repeat all or part of a year can be approximately €10,000 per year.

That does not take into account other costs that arise from repeating, such as (perhaps) the cost of an extra year’s accommodation and living expenses, or the fact the entry to the workplace (and thus earning power) will be delayed by a year. If you throw those into the pot, then the true cost of repeating emerges.

EXAMS
The Examinations Officer (Claire McGlinchey) has asked us to to mention the following

Repeat Exam Fees.
Students have to pay €30 if they wish to do repeat exams in any session. It's a flat fee and the same fees applies whether they are doing just 1 repeat or 5. The fee is €30 per session in which any repeat exam is included. Note that the fee applies to any element of your repeat, exams, CA, project and placement.

Pass by Compensation.
When you get your results at the end of the semester you need to focus on the line Semester Result. If the comment on this line reads “Pass” the student has passed their exams, either outright or by compensation and do not have to do repeat exams.

However, if comment in the line for Semester Result reads either
• "Exemptions Granted",
• "Exam Board Decision Withheld"
The student has NOT passed the semester and will have to repeat ANY subject under 40% including
• any subject with a mark of less than 40%
• any subject annotated with "I" (which means deferral),
• any subject annotated "WH" (which means withheld).

Where a student has not received an overall passing grade for the semester the school office will send the student a letter detailing what the student has to do to complete their outstanding modules. It is the students responsibility to complete this work, register for repeat exams etc.

Carrying Modules.
As long as you have passed at least 50 credits worth of modules for the year students can carry up to 10 credits worth of modules (typically this is 2 modules from the total number of 12 that students take over the 2 semesters) from one year to the next if those modules are not prerequisite modules. Information on prerequisite modules is provided in the school public folder. It is the responsibility of the student to familiarize themselves with this document.

Students cannot carry modules for two years. For example you must pass all first year modules before progressing to third year.

Students cannot carry modules between courses. If you are on a Higher Certificate you cannot carry modules into the Ordinary BSc (year 3) and if you are on an Ordinary BSc you cannot carry modules into the Honours BSc (year 4).

STUDENT HANDBOOK
A student handbook is available to all students. Many of you will have received one at registration. You should read this, it contains a wide range of useful information including appeals procedures, college services etc.

NOTES
Credits – to successfully complete a year of study you must compete / pass all 60 credits for that year. Typically a module will have 5 credits attached to it although there may be some 10 or more credit modules. The number of credits attached to each module is shown on the college website and on the course requirements documents.

Exemptions– a student obtains an exemption (and the corresponding credits) when they successfully pass or complete a module. Normally an overall result of “Pass” for a semester or year means that the student has passed all their modules in that semester / year. An overall results of "Exemptions Granted" means that the student has passed one or more but not all of their modules for that semester / year.

Prerequisites – Some modules build to a strong degree on knowledge gained in previous modules the student will have studied. In this case the first module (for example Introduction to Object Oriented Programming 2” is deemed to be a prerequisite on the later dependent module, for example “Object Oriented Programming”. In this case a student must pass the prerequisite module(s) before they can progress to the next year of their course. Thus you cannot “carry” a prerequisite module from first year to second year, second year to third year or third year to fourth year. Even though we have a semesterised system students register year by year so there are no pre-requisites within an academic year.

Pass by Compensation – Normally a mark of 40% is required to pass a module. A student can pass up to 10 credits worth of modules in a semester by compensation where the marks for the failing module(s) are between 35% and 39% and there is a surplus of twice the number of marks the student is failing by in the other modules within that semester. If more than 10 credits worth of modules is between 35% ad 39% or if any module in the semester is below 35% the exam board cannot invoke the “Pass by Compensation” rule.

Award level – In the final year of your course you are deemed to be at the “Award Stage”. At this stage your overall mark determines your award level. An overall mark of 40-49% is a Pass, higher bands receive honours awards: 50-59% is a Merit 2 or 2:2, 60%-69% is a Merit 1 or 2:1 and 70% or more is a Distinction or 1:1. To receive honours you must pass all modules in their first sitting. Therefore you cannot fail a module in the award year and still receive honours.

GreenHand

Wonderin i Did Second year In Computing and passed Programming but im now doing forensics and failed proramming same module wondering can i get exempt in this because already passed this module unsure

iMuse

GreenHand wrote: »

Wonderin i Did Second year In Computing and passed Programming but im now doing forensics and failed proramming same module wondering can i get exempt in this because already passed this module unsure

Why didnt you go looking for the exemption before you started the module for the second time? You would need to ask someone in the computing Dep because they will be the only people able to answer your Question.

GreenHand

yeah i didnt think at that stage but just asked see would someone know but yeah must go chat ta someone monday maybe