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Got a C grade and cleared with first class honors. Alhumdulillah. Good luck everyone.

Got my results, a B with First Class Honours! I'd like to thank Gillian and Trephena for always answering any questions I had. The help you provide on these forums is truly invaluable.

Also have B with First Class Honours. Thank you so much Gillian!!

Passed with an A grade on first attempt, and this was marked my 10year lapse. It was a long wait but I'm finally happy. Thanks to this very informative platform it contributed immernsly to my success.

Hello, I got the email about 07:00 am Oct 8th London time. I passed with B. I will get an upper second class Hors. I thought I would get first class based on exam papers score. I re-read the guidance and found only marks of skills level will be used. Unfortunately my average score was 66 for skill level. If I got one point more, or I got an A in the paper, I will get first class. That being said, I appreciate everyone here who has been accompanying us for waiting and encouraging. I wish you all the best. This is not the end, this is the beginning.

Hi Can you please help me on how i can access my results? what did you do?

Good day Congratulations Can you please assist as to how i can have access to my results Thank you

For the RAP result, only email now. I got my result from OBU email, the online portal still shows "Not Marked". The email will also tell you the degree classification, and a link to reconfirm your address by Oct 15th, so that OBU can send you paper copy of degree and transcript.

Can any body tell, when will OBU send the transcript of the degree? What is the usual time ? As i need that urgently for admission purpose.

Read the e-mail!!!!! "A hard copy of your transcript and pass letter will be sent to you in due course. Lost post: if your documents have not arrived by 31 December 2020, we will send replacements if you email us on [email protected]. Please do not contact us before 31 December about missing documents. After 31 January 2021, we will not provide replacement copies for free." We are in a Covid Crisis so no-one can be precise!

My understanding is that normally you have to submit within 10 years of your original registration with ACCA. I believe that for those for whom P40 would have been their last submission opportunity because of the issues surrounding the corona virus they would be allowed to submit in P41 as an 'exceptional' extension in 'exceptional times'. I am surprised that your eligibility wasn't checked when you submitted, however I have no idea of the administrative procedures so can't really comment with authority. I rather fear that unless you were granted an exceptional extension by ACCA [which seems to be what they are asking evidence of] you won't get any results as they will say you are outside the qualifying period...

Passed my RAP in first attempt with B. Thanks to my amazing mentor.

I received my OBU result on 8th October morning. Passed with First Class Honours. Thanks to my mentor Mehwish Javaid

I got an email on 6th Oct where it mentioned failed. But in my OBU account its till mentioned 'Not Market'. I gave 200%, went through all the guidelines and my mentor also suggesting me that there is something wrong and asked me to challenge against the result. Since i don't get any further details, what should i do now? Please advice me.

Good Day I unfortunately failed my RAP Is anyone able to assist me with this for my resubmission I would greatly greatly appreciate it

Good Day Gillian - please can you advise how I can contact you with regards to assistance in mentoring for my RAP resubmission My email address is [email protected] Looking forward to hearing from you

I didn't received my result yet. Can someone please guide what should i do?

Hey guys, Congrats to everyone who passed and to those who couldnt this time; dont give up. I failed my first time aswell in p39, but thankfully passed this time. My advice (based on what I did): First thing i did was go through the marker's comments on your project. This is usually sent to you in a week or so i think. Carefully go through it and understand what the marker asking you to improve on. second step i took was break down every thing the marker pointed-out into tasks to do. I hadn't properly done the referencing, had done too few ratios,etc. third thing i did was recheck everything keeping the marker's comments in mind. thats about it, i finished my project about 3-4 days before the re-submission deadline so i could recheck my project again (i was way too nervous, did not want to fail lol)

@irfanmalik191 - I don't think all the results are out yet as only 60% of my students have been in touch with theirs. I have no idea what is going on. This is unreasonable for those who have failed and need to resubmit because they are close to the 10 year limit. A few years ago the results would have come out by about 23 September together with the feedback at one and the same time and the submission close about 16 May thus allowing at least 5 weeks. Now you the results are already about 2 weeks late and you have to wait yet another week for the feedback - so altogether about the half the time to rework failed work and the submission close is about a week earlier. This is unacceptable. Good advice hasab9944 - that is exactly what is needed

Thanks for your reply. I just received the following email. Your Research and Analysis Project has been sent to the Academic Conduct Officer (ACO) for further investigation as one of the marking team has raised a concern over the academic practice of your work. For example, this could be because of an absence of referencing in some passages, or because it is thought that verbatim quotations (using the same words as the source) have not been shown as quotations. It could also be because it is suspected that the work is not entirely your own. All submitted projects are now passed through Turnitin. All the work is done 100% by me. Can someone please help me?

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Hello Gillian. I hope you are doing well. Can you please tell me the rules on resubmission? I do not have time to go through the detailed info pack right now. I shall be grateful.Thank you.

Uruba - there is a shorter Resubmission Guide so please refer to that - the document can be downloaded using the following link https://www.brookes.ac.uk/business/undergraduate/bsc-applied-accounting/

I have to tell the blunder that caused my failure so other students do not do it. I thought my SLS counted 1804 words after I re-edited the document before submission and removed many words thinking 1804 are still left. But now I saw that they were just 1692 in fact. if your word count is lower than 1800, it will be difficult to pass. In my case, I failed.

We have a month to the closing date of period 41,those who failed haven't yet Received feedback in order to help them rectify the issues on time,I really wonder what OBU is thinking about. There should be absolute remedy to all this mess.otherwise my respect for OBU is fading every other second.

What the portal says is a red herring and should be ignored - results for P40 were communicated by email. I understand your frustrations. I had a similar experience in P39 when I felt a student deserved an A for his Topic 17 Corporate Governance RAP [and remember I was a former senior marker, currently assess some MBA dissertations for Brookes so should have a a good 'handle' on marking and grading and I have also lectured on Masters courses at Brookes on Corporate Governance, so should know what's what]! However the student was failed mostly on models I would suggest that you consult the marker feedback and compare this with the assessment criteria and if you think that the feedback is wrong then appeal via [email protected] [not the formal process]. All Universities tend to rely on their 'get out of jail free card' i.e. that you cannot appeal against academic judgment [even when it is blatantly wrong - see my final paragraph!] and therefore you do need to show that what you are told was lacking in your work was indeed there. My mentee managed to do that successfully. He was eventually given a pass [a grudging grade C] but fortunately as he only needed a C grade for 1st class honours his degree classification was unaffected. If you have just failed the SLS and/or Presentation your result will show a fail but the report will have been given a grade and once you pass the SLS and Presentation you will be given that grade - so in that respect it will not be capped as a C [only a previous fail in the report is capped]. [The resubmission fee is GBP 420 as far as I am aware]. BTW the mentee's feedback showed embarrassingly great ignorance of CG knowledge by the marker as the main reason for fail was that the student had not used US Corporate Governance Codes to evaluate Tesla [instead he had made comparisons with the UK Code as 'best practice']. Since the US is rules based there is legislation [Sarbanes Oxley and Dodd Frank] but NO mandatory codes and what Principles are produced are from parties with a vested interest [Business Roundtable and Investor Stewardship Group] - so of limited use for evaluating real weaknesses in CG. I wish you a successful appeal!

yes, oesj - if you see my post above I agree that this is an unacceptable state of affairs and has been since P37 - before that students had a more realistic time frame. Since P37 there have been ongoing problems with the submission portal so students and in particular failed students, are paying the price for someone else's failings.....

Has any one gotten marker feedback from OBU,or the frustration is for us all.But what could be the issue?

I had a student who once was failed for a similar reason - except in her case it was referencing throughout. The Assessment Criteria at the time [they have since been changed] stated that a fail for referencing would be 'referencing is mostly absent'. With my experience I went through and counted how many references there were and how many being very strict, there might have been. I think I concluded that the referencing was 73% there. So how could it be 'mostly absent'? They wouldn't accept this - so in effect they were trying to defy and rewrite the basic mathematical concept that 27% could never be greater than 73% and also contravening the Oxford English Dictionary definition of 'mostly', maintaining that the smaller quantity which was significantly lower than 50%, met the definition of most..... It all defies common sense and makes the University look ridiculous. If this were the case in an MBA dissertation submitted to Brookes under their MBA Global programme I could almost guarantee the marker would hardly comment on it and you would have more than likely passed with the grade you overall merited - because a more holistic view of your work would have been taken. The issue lies with the RAP marking system. The MBA dissertations are marked by two markers simultaneously, with markers producing their individual feedback which they then discuss together and agree a mark by consensus. Whereas the RAP is marked by one person, which is then justified because every fail is reviewed by a senior marker/moderator who can change the grade [in which case the senior moderator will then review the change]. The problem though is that the markers know each other and there is a general reluctance by most of them to 'rock the boat' and change many grades, so most of the original grades go through 'on the nod'. Notwithstanding this, do appeal - try [email protected] first though - but expect them to play the 'out of jail free card' as they did with my student and still insist that something that could be established objectively [there was nothing to stop them doing a count themselves - which in the interest of justice should have been done] but instead they trotted out the usual defence to any challenge of the marking - it was 'disagreeing with academic judgment'! Good luck!

I got my result withheld and my rap referred to ACO. I am currently in a terrible state of mind after working tirelessly to come up with RAP. When does ACO starts contacting students and is there anyone who has been contacted yet.