January exam results are provisional and therefore subject to change. In most cases, you will only receive a mark for the exam - not the whole the course - as the exam may only be a component of the overall mark for a course.

Unfortunately it is not possible for staff to enter into correspondence about these marks. You cannot challenge, appeal or request an administrative mark check against provisional marks; you need to wait for final results to be published.

Final results will be confirmed by the exam boards and published in LSE for You on either Thursday 16 July or Monday 16 November depending on your programme. Take a look at lse.ac.uk/results for further information.

Frequently Asked Questions

• First year undergraduate students
• Second year undergraduate students
• Third year undergraduate students
• General Course students
• Postgraduate students

BA/BSc

BA/BSc students are awarded First Class Honours (1st), an Upper Second Class Honours (2A), a Lower Second Class Honours (2B), a Third Class Honours (3rd) or a Pass degree depending on their individual course results. 

The classification is based on eighteen classification marks:

- The marks achieved in all eight second and third year papers, with full-unit marks counted twice and half-unit marks counted once to make a total of sixteen classification marks.

- The seventeenth and eighteenth classification marks will use the First Year Average full unit mark counted twice.

Your 'year one average' is calculated by adding together and averaging the best six out of eight marks in first year papers. All first-year full unit marks will be counted twice, and any half unit marks counted once to make a total of eight first year marks.

LLB

The LLB classification is based on the eight marks achieved in all second and third year papers. You will also have an aggregate mark which is the sum of all eight 'classification marks'. The full classification scheme is available in the Calendar.

Diploma

Diploma students normally take courses to the equivalent of four full units as part of their degree.  The marks in all four units are used in the calculation of your classification.  

The full classification scheme is available in the Calendar.

Taught Masters

Masters students are awarded a Pass with Distinction,  Pass with Merit, or a Pass degree depending on their individual course results.  Normally Masters students take courses to the equivalent of four full units as part of their degree and the marks in all four units are used in the calculation of your classification. 

Details of the various classification schemes are available in the Calendar.

In addition to the School's MSc classification rules, individual Sub-Boards of Examiners can establish 'local rules' for students whose results profiles fall into the discretionary classification profiles at 5.3.2 and 5.3.4 of the Scheme.  A list of all of the local rules is available in the School Calendar

Undergraduate

Undergraduates are eligible for the award of a degree if they have no more than three unredeemed fails across all 12 papers.  

Penalty rules apply if you have failed more than one unit.

Taught Masters

Taught Master students are eligible for the award of a degree if they have failed (but not Bad Failed) a course of 0.5 unit value.

If you have failed (but not Bad Failed) in a course(s) to the value of 1.0 unit, you will be required to resit unless the fail can be compensated either by a mark of at least 60% in: a) one full unit course; or b) each of two half unit courses; or by a compensation aggregate mark of 165 in the non-failed courses.

If compensated by either of the above options, then a fail will automatically result in a drop in the overall award classification given to you (e.g. if you would otherwise have been eligible for a Merit, then your overall classification would drop to a Pass degree.)

Some degree programmes have courses which are deemed to be critical to assessment. A fail in these courses cannot be compensated and no award will be made until they have been passed. To find out if your degree programme has courses that are critical to assessment, please see your department's local rules.

Under the School regulations, you not allowed to be re-examined in any course which you have already passed. You are also not allowed to re-sit failed courses if you have been awarded your degree,

The only exemption to this regulation is for LLB students who shall normally resit all papers taken in that year if they fail two or more units, or receive a Bad Fail mark in one or more papers.

For more information visit re-entry.

If you have failed or deferred one full unit or less: you will automatically progress into the next year of study. You will be entered to attempt your resit or deferred assessment during the In Year Resit and Deferred Assessment Period (IRDAP).

If you have failed or deferred more than one full unit: you cannot normally automatically progress into your next year of study.  You will be entered to attempt your resit or deferred assessment during the IRDAP. The IRDAP allows you to attempt to meet the progression requirements in time for the start of the next academic year. 

What and when is IRDAP?

The In Year Resit and Deferred Assessment Period is a new assessment period for all new first year undergraduate students who fail an overall course or defer an assessment. The IRDAP takes place between Monday 19 August and Wednesday 28 August (excluding the bank holiday on Monday 26 August). Results from the IRDAP will be released on Friday 20 September.

You must submit/attempt any failed or deferred assessments (such as exams or coursework) during this period. In most cases the assessment format will be the same as the first attempt and will be based on the 2018/19 syllabus.

Will my marks from the IRDAP be capped?

If you have deferred your assessment and are sitting/submitting it for the first time: your mark will not be capped.

If you have failed and are re-sitting/re-submitting an assessment: the overall mark for that course will be capped at a Pass mark of 40.

How does capping work?

If you fail a course overall (by failing or being absent from one or more components) you must resit any failed components of that course during the IRDAP.

In most cases the assessment format will be the same as the first attempt and will be based on the 2018/19 syllabus.  The only difference between your first attempt (or absence) and the resit is that your overall mark for the course that the failed assessment belongs to will be capped at a Pass mark of 40.

For example:

• Student A gets 30% in her/his January exam (a fail mark) but gets 80% in her/his summer exam (a Pass); they achieve an overall mark of 55% (a 2B) in this course which is an overall pass mark and do not need to resit the January exam component. 
• Student B gets 36% in her/his January exam (a fail mark) and gets 40% in her/his summer exam (a pass mark); they achieve an overall mark of 38% in the course which is an overall fail mark. Therefore, Student B needs to resit her/his January exam. S/he cannot resit the Summer exam as s/he passed this component. S/he sits the January exam in the IRDAP and gets 80%.  Her/his mark for the overall course will be capped at a Pass mark of 40.
• You can find further information and advice about the IRDAP on the resit guidance webpage.

If you have failed or deferred one full unit or less, then you will automatically progress into the next year of study.You will need to re-take any failed assessments during the following academic year, alongside the next year's assessments.

This is providing all attempts have not been exhausted. As a second year students you are permitted two attempts to pass a failed assessment. In order to be eligible for the award of the degree you must attempt and complete all elements of assessment.

If you are a General Course student no numerical marks will published online, only exam and class grades.

Your home university will determine the subsequent accreditation of the academic work completed at LSE. 

You will receive an email about one week after results have been published showing your numerical marks. This is for your information only and does not constitute a transcript. 

Students with queries should contact the study abroad advisor at their home university.

If you would like to discuss your results, you should talk to your Academic Adviser or Supervisor who may be able to offer you some guidance on how you performed in your examinations or assessed work.  

There is a range of other support around LSE that you may also want to contact for support with your results.