If you are taking an IRDAP enabled postgraduate course as part of a 12 month programme then reassessments for that course will take place before you recieve your final results. Reassessments will take place in August whereas you will receive your results in November.
Compensation rules and why they're important
The compensation rules within the postgraduate schemes of award mean that you need to have a full set of results before you know which courses you need to resit. In short, these rules allow you compensate for a fail (but not a bad fail) in one course if you have good marks in other courses. Compensation may mean that you do not need to (or will not be allowed to) resit a failed course. These rules are not changing so some students will be in a situation where they do not know if they need to take (or will be allowed to take) a resit in a August because they will not receive their results until September.
Pre-emptive resits
To accommodate this, students will take pre-emptive resits. This means that if they have failed a IRDAP enabled PG course they will resit it during IRDAP in case it is required to make an award in November.
Results publicaiton
Results for IRDAP enabled postgraduate courses will be published in July to allow students to prepare for pre-emptive resits during IRDAP. For 12 month students these will be the only results published in July, all other results will be published in Novmeber as normal (although provisional results will made available earlier).
Results for any pre-emptive resits that are used in classification will be published in November, along with your other results.
LSE cannot issue any documentation confirming the results of pre-emptive resits that are not used in making an award (i.e. because compensation was applied) - it will be as if it never happened and the result will not appear on the transcript. If they are used for the award then it will appear on the transcript in the normal way as any used resit would.
Exceptional Circumstances
If you are taking an IRDAP enabled PG course and need submit Exceptional Circumstances then it is important that you do so by the spring term deadline. This means that they can be considered in advance of any pre-emptive resits.
In 2024/24 this means within 14 calendar days of your last assessment or by 12pm midday (London time) or by Tuesday, 24 June 2025 at the latest, whichever is earlier.
How will awards be calculated?
When awards are being considered the sub-board will first attempt to make an award via the compensation rules, without using the pre-emptive resit. This means they will attempt to make an award as if the pre-emptive resit has never happened. If an award cannot be made using the compensation rules then the pre-emptive resit will be included.
Pre-emptive resits have to be taken
It is not possible for you to opt out of a pre-emptive resit because you do not know your other results.
If you defer a pre-emptive resit then we will not be able to make an award in November. In line with LSE policy, you must complete all assessments before you can be awarded. Deferring an assessments makes it incomplete.
Pre-emptive resits only apply to fails. If you defer an assessment then you need to take it before you can be awarded, so any reassessments in August will not be pre-emptive. If you bad fail a course then compensation cannot be used and the reassessments will not be pre-emptive.