*** OBU Period 37 Results ***

I have not received the ACCA certificate (wasn’t aware there was one to be honest) but can see on my eBusiness login under “General Details” the following: You have completed the ACCA/Oxford Brookes Degree examination.

If you are a member, it is the site you login to when going through the ACCA Portal and then Administer Your Account. Not sure how to view if you are a Student, think the exam results page just shows whether you have completed the ACCA side of the degree.

A degree certificate will be sent by post to all successful students by Oxford Brookes University. As this is a separate department from the ACCA Brookes office the process can take several months (which is normal for most UK universities). Again this is sent to the address that is held on record.

I am not sure this email has actually been out yet as firm dates are not available, however please see my post on the Oxford Brookes Degree grading and graduation thread for the latest on this.

I got this mail confirming the date and the venue-

Dear Graduate

First, congratulations on receiving your BSc (Hons) in Applied Accounting.

We offer all our graduates an opportunity to attend one of our regional graduation ceremonies Students are invited to the nearest ceremony to your home address. It is not a requirement to attend a graduation ceremony, but students find it an enjoyable and memorable way to celebrate their achievement.

Based on the address you have provided, you will be invited to the next Dubai ceremony, at the Crowne Plaza Hotel – Saturday 22nd February 2020.

This email is to give you advance warning of the date. We have not began to make arrangements or register guests for this event. We will contact you again around 1 August with further details and a registration form.

Best wishes

Anyone in Dubai received their documents yet?

I have a questtion, I wasn’t able to put a postal code in my delivery address… will it be delivered directly to my address regardless of not having postal code?

Thanks and congrats to all of us, see you on the graduation ceremony 🙂

No, Not even the results letter. I have also sent an email to request the certificate but they said ACCA office needed a number of weeks to input the results to the system. It means that they still not issue the certificate yet and the certificate is not ready to be send out. You need to be patient and wait for a few weeks or months.

Hi GillianM,

I Received my result saying I did not pass my Research and Analysis Project.

The feedback report shows all passed, except for Information Technology which is a fail, stating: “To fully demonstrate your IT skills your spreadsheet must incorporate some formulae to do calculations, e.g. of financial ratios. Look at page 74 of the information pack where you will see the pass/fail criteria used in evaluating information technology skills. Under FAIL it states “little evidence of use of appropriate formulae in spreadsheet”. You must use more extensive formulae, including formula that links cell references rather than just numbers”

I did my project on topic 17, Carillion as the Business and I did input data and made graph in the excel.

To make sure I understand what they are asking, my question is, do I need to make some ratio calculation in the same excel spreadsheet that I submitted to OBU? And do I need to include it in the graph that I made?

I received my BSc hons feedback sheet on 25 May 2019 in which I was declared fail in self reflection aspect of SLS. The marker’s comments in this regard are
“The purpose of this statement is to demonstrate reflection, identifying your strengths and weaknesses, reflecting on how you overcame those weaknesses. Your answer to question 1 was more of a description of the process than any reflection. You begin answering question 2 by talking about your main research objective which is a personal goal rather than a research objective”.

I sent an appeal email to OBU with regard to it on 2-06-19 and I haven’t got any response from them yet as several weaknesses and strengths were clearly mentioned in the SLS together with the discussion of financial and non-financial elements of the company, however, I haven’t received response email from OBU yet.

How long does OBU take to respond to appeal email for second review? Moreover, should I send follow-up email to them or I should wait for a few more days instead?

Anyone in Dubai received their documents yet?

Hi Gillian, can i know your charge pls

Dear All,

I appealed OBU a week ago to reconsider my SLS as I was awarded fail in the SLS by the university and tonight I received an email of the Appeal Officer in which it was stated that the assessment criteria was applied correctly, however, I am still eligible to appeal OBU formally for second review of SLS.

The comments of the marker regarding my SLS in the feedback sheet were,

“The purpose of this statement is to demonstrate reflection, identifying your strengths and weaknesses, reflecting on how you overcame those weaknesses. Your answer to question 1 was more of a description of the process than any reflection. You begin answering question 2 by talking about your main research objective which is a personal goal rather
than a research objective.”

On the contrary, all weaknesses and ways of using my strengths were already embodied in the SLS. Moreover, there wasn’t any discussion of personal goal in the SLS and merely financial aspects of topic 8 were accounted for. I quoted almost 20 weaknesses in the appeal email together with my strengths for overcoming them, however, still the appeal officer says that

“I understand that you are unhappy with your RAP result. Please be assured that this has been thoroughly considered by your marker and has been verified by the University’s moderation process, and I have also reviewed the work on your request. I find that the feedback was appropriate, and designed to assist you to re-submit successfully.

For your re-submission, I would advise you to think about how, for instance, you might do things differently on another occasion, the strengths you identified, and how they helped you, your weaknesses, and how you overcame them. Also, how you felt about working on the RAP and working with your mentor; did you have any problems you didn’t expect?”

Kindly advise me that under which criteria I can appeal OBU for awarding me pass in the SLS? Moreover, I referred the SLS exemplars given on the OBU website for drafting my SLS and the weaknesses coupled with the ways of overcoming those weaknesses were far more than the weaknesses entailed in the SLS exemplars.

I really wonder that what kind of weaknesses the marker wanted me to incorporate in my SLS when already bulk of weaknesses, way more than the weaknesses and strengths given in the SLS exemplars, related to the point of time when my work wasn’t reviewed by the mentor are self-evident in the SLS and the way I overcame them with the suggestions of mentor were already present in it. Obtrusively, there was no space to discuss my personal weaknesses and all weaknesses I discussed were solely related to RAP.

Kindly guide me.