This page is designed to help you understand what the numbers, letters and symbols in your final results email mean. There is also information about Exceptional Circumstances, Appeals and Administrative Mark Checks.

Assessments with an asterisk(*)

If an asterisk (*) shows against an assessment this means that you have/had a confirmed deferral in place for that assessment. 

Course Grades

Grades show against courses.  You can interpret them using the list below:

D = Distinction [70-100%]
M = Merit [60-69%]
P = Pass [50-59%]
F = Fail [(x+1)-49%]
FB = Bad Fail [0 - x]
NA = At least one component of assessment has been deferred
AB = Absent from all components of assessment
I = Incomplete (i.e. you were absent from at least one component of assessment)

You can check the bad fail marks for your courses (i.e. establish what x is).

Marks for all assessments will show. You'll only see one overall course mark and grade for each academic year.

Marks from the RDAP1 (January) period will appear in addition to the mark from last year. The course will appear twice - once in the year you had the teaching and again for this year when you took the RDAP1/RDAP2 assessment. 

• If you deferred a piece of coursework from the 2023/24 academic year to RDAP1 in January 2025 then an asterisk (*) will show for that assessment in 2023/24 and the course will show as deferred for that year. The course will appear again for 2024/5 with a mark for the assessment from January, labelled as RDAP1. The RDAP1 mark will have been used, alongside any banked marks, to generate a mark for the course overall. 
• If you achieved a mark of 29 in an exam in June 2024, and failed the course overall, and then resat in RDAP1 in January 2025 achieving a 70. The mark of 29 will appear against the assessment in 2024/25 and the course will show an overall fail for that year. The course will appear again for 2024/5 with a 70 for the exam (labelled as RDAP1). The mark of 70 from RDAP1 will have been used, alongside any banked marks, to calculate your overall grade (but remember, it will have been capped).

If you took assessments in previous RDAP periods they will also show but only one overall mark per year is available. For example, if you achieved a mark of 15 in an exam in June 2023 and thus failed the course overall, you would have been due to resit in RDAP1 in January 2024, but you then deferred to RDAP2 in May/June 2024 and then again to RDAP1 in January 2025. The mark of 15 will appear against the assessment in 2022/23 and the course will show an overall fail for that year. An asterisk (*) will appear against the both instances of the assessment (labelled RDAP1 and IRDAP2) in 2023/4. The mark from January 2025 will appear for 2024/25 (labelled RDAP1). This mark will have been used, alongside any banked marks from 2022/23, to calculate your overall grade (but remember, it will have been capped). 

Exceptional Circumstances

If you have submitted Exceptional Circumstances you should have received, or will shortly receive, an email from your Department or the Student Regulations Team informing you of the Exam Board’s Decision.

Challenging your results 

We are confident that our assessment process is robust and that the results we have sent you will be accurate. However, in certain circumstances there are routes for you to check and/or appeal your results. Visit challenging results for more information. The deadline for both processes is 23:59 (London Time) on Thursday 3 April 2025.

Want to know more about regulations, classification or progression?

There is lots of information, including links to the relevant regulations on the understanding results page.

Have things not gone to plan?

If things don't go to plan, and you haven't received the results you were hoping for, there is lots of support available; check our advice and support page to find out what you can do next.