School of Computer Science
Notes on Academic Records/Transcripts produced via KDDB
Joint Honours and ESE Students
Please note that your Home School is responsible for producing your transcript.
Overall Recommendation
The recommendation at the bottom of the transcript gives the latest outcome/recommendation. An asterisk (*) following a recommendation shows that there are further details which are relevant, e.g. there are one or more modules in which you have a resit or a repeat.
If you have failed any modules and have to take them again, you will need further advice. It is ESSENTIAL that you should have attended Progress Review Tutorial and/or have read the appropriate 'Failure Notes' document. Consult your Programme Director, the Director of Undergraduate Studies or the Director of Postgraduate Studies as appropriate.
- A -- Proceed This means that you have passed all modules taken at this stage and may proceed to the next year/part of your programme.
- B -- Successful completion This means that you have successfully completed the degree for which you are registered, and have not been awarded a particular classification.
- B with a number Degree class (I, II.1, II.2, III) or Pass Degree is given for final year undergraduates; with Distinction or with Merit is given for postgraduate students.
- C -- Review* This means that you do not have enough credits to proceed to the next year/part of your degree (or have not passed required modules). You have some supplementary (resit) assessments to take. What happens after you have taken these will depend on your results, which will be reviewed at the next Examination Board (normally the September one).
- D -- Proceed with outstanding requirements* This means that you have enough credits (100) to proceed to the next year/part of your programme. However, you have some assessments to re-take (resit or repeat).
- E - Proceed and transfer programme This applies to students in the second year of a BEng/MEng or a BSc/MSci programme. It indicates that you will proceed and can transfer to the programme whose name appears in brackets.
- F -- Fail, or withdraw This means that you have no more opportunities to resit or repeat modules, and haven't managed to meet the requirements for progression. So you have failed your degree and are required to withdraw from the University. You can't resit or repeat any failed modules.
- G -- Award alternative qualification* If you can't carry on with your undergraduate degree (because you have exhausted all your opportunities to resit or repeat modules, and haven't managed to meet the requirements for progression), you may still be awarded a Certificate or Diploma of Higher Education, depending on how many credits you have. The alternative will appear in brackets after this recommendation. Postgraduate students may be awarded an Postgraduate Certificate or Diploma in place of an MSc.
- H -- External resit* This means that you cannot proceed to the next year/part of your degree because you have one or more module to resit externally.
- I -- Proceed to dissertation For postgraduate students, this means that you have passed all the taught modules and can proceed to the next part of your degree, the summer project.
- K -- Repeat year internally* This means that you cannot proceed to the next year/part of your degree because you have one or more modules to repeat (resit internally), but you do not have any supplementary (resit) assessments to take. Note that it does not mean that you have to repeat the whole year, only the listed modules.
- M -- Return from leave of absence This means that you are currently on leave of absence and are expected to return in the next academic year. If the leave was for medical/personal reasons, you will be required to produce evidence that you are now fit to resume your studies.
- P -- Proceed to dissertation with low credit This means that you can proceed to the next part of your programme (the summer project). You have no more resit or repeat opportunities, but you don't have the full 120 credits.
- Q -- Proceed with low credit This means that you can proceed to the next year/part of your degree. You have no more resit or repeat opportunities, but you don't have the full 120 credits.
- S -- Proceed to dissertation with outstanding requirements* This means that you have enough credits to proceed to the next part of your programme (the summer project). However, you have some assessments to re-take (resit or repeat).
"Lvl" Column
This refers to the academic Level of a module:
| C | Certificate (Year 1 of a bachelors degree) |
| I | Intermediate (Year 2 of a bachelors degree) |
| H | Honours (Final Year, normally Year 3, of a bachelors degree) |
| M | Masters (Year 4 of an undergraduate masters degree or a postgraduate masters degree) |
Normally "Lvl" and "St" (see below) will be the same, but they may legitimately be different.
"St" Column
"St" is short for "Stage" as meant by KDDB (which is not the same as the University Regulations). "St" refers to the programme year in which the module is counted. For a three year BSc/BEng/BA "St" will be 1, 2 or 3; for a four year undergraduate masters (MEng/MSci) 1, 2, 3 or 4. For a postgraduate degree, "St" will always be the same.
"St" is set to X to show that a module is not counted towards your degree. Reasons for values of X include:
- 'recreational' modules outside any degree programme
- modules taken before transferring degree programme
- a module not counted because of mitigation or repeating (see below).
"Mark" Column
This gives the highest mark actually obtained in that academic year.
- Where assessment has only taken place once, only the mark will appear.
- Where a supplementary (resit) assessment has also taken place, the letter "R" will appear after the mark. In this case, the mark used in calculating the year average is capped at the pass mark for the module (40 for Levels C to H, 50 for Level M).
- Where a supplementary (resit) assessment has also taken place and one or both of the assessments resulted in mitigated failures, the letter "S" will appear after the mark. In this case, the mark is not capped.
"R" may also appear in the case of repeats (see below).
"Result" Column
Prior to 2004/05, the School tended not to enter a result code for modules which were passed, so a blank in this column means "P" for Pass.
Possible results include:
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P |
Pass |
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SU |
Take a supplementary assessment, usually a supplementary examination. Supplementary assessments are to be completed by August/September of the same academic year. The 'resit' rules for a module given on the School's web site (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/internal/modules/) define the format of the assessment. |
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RP |
Repeat the module in the next academic year, attending lectures and taking all assessments again. |
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RS |
Resit the module in the next academic year, without attending lectures. The 'resit' rules for a module given on the School's web site (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/internal/modules/) define the format of the assessment. |
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SB |
Substitute another module for this one; the substituted module is treated as a repeat. |
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M |
Mitigation accepted; the result does not count towards the maximum of two assessments for a module. At the June Examination Board this normally means take the following supplementary assessment; at the September Examination Board it means take a resit or repeat in the following academic year. However, the School of Computer Science has special rules for workshop modules. The 'resit' rules for these modules given on the School's web site (http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/internal/modules/) define which are workshop modules. If you have less than 30% in a workshop module, the default is that you will be required to take the module again next year, regardless of mitigation. Contact the Welfare Team if you are unsure. |
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F |
Fail; no further assessments allowed. |
Repeats/Substitutes
Where a module has been repeated, it will appear in more than one academic year.
- All but the highest mark for the module will have the "St" column set to X to show that the mark is being ignored.
- Unless there were earlier mitigations, the mark which is finally used will have a "R" beside it, showing the mark is capped. In this case it does not necessarily mean that the module has been taken twice in that academic year.
Where a module has been substituted on repeating, and there is no mitigation, "SB" will appear in the previous academic year. The substitute counts as a second attempt.