APPEAL/SECOND REVIEW FOR ACCA OBU

@amb222 said:
thank you for your reply. can you please tell me how long it took to get an answer on the appeal?

hi
I failed in twice for topic 8. I tried my best to pass and worked according to marker guidance. but still I failed for same reason. I have seen so many people passed those have same short of rap.
do u know whether I can appeal?
will it affect on my next submission which is my last chance?
thank
whats the outcome will come up?

@amb222 – congratulations – what had they failed you on?

@ts1110 – no any appeal will not affect a subsequent resubmission. UK universities are objective and not vindictive as their decisions are open to scrutiny by a higher regulating body. Appeals have to show that the Assessment Criteria were not correctly applied.

@amb222 – Thanks for your prompt reply as it:

(a) is always useful to know what kind of things succeed on appeal, and
(b) that the ‘system’ works and that some appeals succeed

(So the 4 areas were Understanding, Application, E & A & Presentation of the findings presumably?)

@amb222 said:

@trephena info gathering and referencing, accounting application,evaluation of information, overall technical and professional skills.

hi
congrats
thanks for reply.
I sent email for review on 29 sep and got email from OBU . Obu informed that my appeal has been sent to one of the academic staff for review on 3rd of October but still did not get back from them.
hoping I will get positive result as I m certainly sure the marker didn’t see the first marker comments when marked my rap.
thank u again for your reply

@Allop – These things take time. First they have to consider whether there are reasonable grounds for an appeal i.e. have the assessment criteria been incorrectly applied? Please note this is the only grounds for an appeal as just because you disagree with the marker does not mean an appeal will be considered.

Where an appeal will be considered then it has to be remarked and the grounds for failing reviewed by the chief moderator and his senior marking team. I would estimate that 2 – 3 weeks in most circumstances from what I have been told. In extreme cases it can take several weeks if the appeal involves complex issues particularly as some of the markers have lecturing and other university duties apparently that they have to fit in around it.

Then this is par for the course

@CBK1 – I can’t say with authority. I believe the senior OBU administration staff possibly look at what has been failed and the marker comments. If it is clear to them that it is a ‘bad’ fail and/or the grounds for fail are clear cut e.g. word count has been exceeded or both marker and moderator (a senior marker who checks failed work) say the referencing is poor then there would be no grounds for appeal. (Exceeding the word count is an infringement of the rules and there is no appeal against academic judgment).

However such staff can only filter out the obvious cases where an appeal would never succeed. I would imagine where the original marker passed the RAP and the moderator decided it was a marginal fail it is possible the staff decide to refer it to the appeals officer to decide if there are grounds for an appeal. Nevertheless I was under the impression that in the case just cited a super-moderator (marker with 10+ years experience) will have confirmed the moderator’s fail grade (or overturned it and given a pass) before the results are released. So normally unless as The Learning Luminarium point out there is a robust case that the Assessment Criteria have been incorrectly applied or the rules not infringed (e.g. student failed for using old financial statements but they did use the latest available at the submission date) just because a case goes to the Appeals office does not mean an appeal will (a) be considered or (b) be successful

please help me to know all the stages an appeal passes before its successful

There are no grounds for appeal against academic judgement alone.

If you can show the assessment criteria were not applied appropriately then that can be cited as grounds for an appeal. So consult the Assessment Criteria in Appendix 1 and if you decide to appeal it must be framed against those criteria. It will not be sufficient just to say your friends’ work was passed but not yours as any appeal will only look at what you submitted not theirs.

Of course some appeals have been successful however you need to show that the assessment criteria have not been applied correctly. A disagreement with academic judgment is not adequate grounds for an appeal.

Just because you think the fail was not appropriate is insufficient and your appeal will be dismissed if you do not provide evidence of how it was not marked in accordance with the rules and assessment criteria. (Every fail is reviewed so effectively both the marker and senior marker felt it did not meet the minimum for a pass so you will need to demonstrate that it did)

I have no idea how long it takes but although some appeals are upheld the majority are rejected.

What it means is that they have accepted that the assessment criteria were not applied appropriately.

As a consequence the fail has been quashed. As a different section has to manually adjust the result they have explained that it will take a while (maybe even a week or two) before your online account shows the grade has been changed to a pass.