Students need to complete reassessments in two scenarios:

• They have defered an assessment.
• They have failed a course overall, have not been awarded and have attempts remaining in the course/assessment.

All other postgraduate courses have reassessments in January (RDAP1) and May/June (RDAP2). 

There will be no assessments for these courses during the normal Postgraduate Resit and Deferral Periods in January and May/June. 

These courses will be IRDAP enabled from the 2024-25 academic year onwards. 

That means that anybody who is recieving teaching during the 2024-25 academic year will follow the IRDAP pattern.

Students who are having reassessments during the 2024-25 academic year will also switch to this pattern. That means that if you're being reassessed during RDAP2 in May/June 2025 and still have outstanding assessments afterwards you will take those during IRDAP 2025. 

Results from IRDAP enabled PG courses will be released as soon as possible after IRDAP. The exact date has not been confirmed but we expect this to be in early October. 

When you take your reassessment is dependant on the course, not your programme. This means you may follow two patterns simultaneously.

For example, if you need to complete reassessments in both EC411 and GY426 you will take the assessments for EC411 accoring to the IRDAP pattern, and GY426 according to the standard RDAP1/RDAP2 pattern. 

If you're on a 9 or 10 month programme you will complete your IRDAP assessments after receiving your results in July.

If you're on a 12 month programme then the IRDAP assessments will fall before you recieve your results in November. Visit IRDAP enabled postgraduate courses and 12 month programmes for more details of how this will work. 

For more information about how the two patterns interact check out the scenarios at the bottom of this page.

Your award point depend on both your programme and the courses where you need to do reassessments:

• If you are on a 9 or 10 month Economics programme (i.e. a programme in the Department of Economics that normally ends in June) then your award points will be in July (as normal) and September (following IRDAP). These programmes will no longer have an award point in March (following RDAP).
• If you are on a 9 or 10 month programme in a department other than Economics (e.g. Finance and Economics) then your normal award points will be in July (as normal) and March (following RDAP). However, if you complete all your reassessments after IRDAP (e.g. you just needed to complete an IRDAP enabled reassessment) then you can be awarded in September (following IRDAP).
• If you are on a 12 month programme then your award points will be November (as normal) and March (following RDAP). 

The postgraduate schemes of award include the concept of compensation. In short, these allow you compensate for a fail (but not a bad fail) in one course with marks from other courses.

These rules are not changing. However, the timing of IRDAP assessments does have some implications for 12 month students. Visit IRDAP enabled postgraduate courses and 12 month programmes for more details of how this will work. 

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. 

For the 2024/25 academic year 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.