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Assessment Handbook 20112012-123: 7. Student Failure and Reassessment7.107.11 A small number of programmes have special regulations permitting SEBs touse their discretion to grant one additional attempt. Please refer to the programmeregulations.7.117.12 Students due for a reattempt must register to do so at the next availableopportunity (Academic Regulations, 2.4038). Where students fail to register, orregister and fail to complete the reassessment, this shall count as one of thepermitted attempts. Students who fail to register must still be considered by the SEB.MBBS and BDS students shall not be required to register for reattempts, as they arerequired to pass all modules.7.127.13 The SEB may recommend to the DEB that QMUL should terminate theregistration and enrolment of students who fail to reattempt at the next availableopportunity. This must should be clearly documented in the SEB minutes, the reportto the DEB, the pass list, and in the results (Academic Regulations, 2.4144).7.137.14 Where students do not register for a reattempt at the next availableopportunity, they shall not normally be permitted to do so at a later point and shalllose all remaining attempts.Resits7.14Note: first sits are discussed in Section 9, Extenuating Circumstances.7.147.15 Resits are by far the most common mode of reassessment. Resitting studentsreattempt assessment from failed modules at the next available opportunity.7.157.16 Resits incur an examination fee, but no tuition fees; resitting students shallnot attend lectures or classes for resit modules. Certain programmes including theMBBS do not currently incur a resit fee.7.167.17 Each resit shall count as one permitted attempt at a module unless a ‘first sit’is agreed (see Section 9 of the Assessment Handbook). Please note that ‘first sits’and ‘first attempts’ are not necessarily the same thing.7.177.18 Resit marks shall be capped (for the module) at the pass mark for allundergraduate programmes save the LLB, LLM, and a small number of programmeswith special regulations. Resit marks for all postgraduate programmes shall becapped (for the module) for all students beginning programmes in 2007/08 or later,unless a programme has special regulations stipulating otherwise. Resit marks counttoward the developmental year in which the module was first attempted, not the yearin which the resit occurred.7.187.19 Each module shall have an approved mode of reassessment, held in themodule regulations and the Student Information System:•i.•ii.Synoptic reassessment overrides all elements of reassessment (whether passed orfailed) from the original failed attempt at the module with one (or more) mark from anew element of assessment weighted at 100 percent of the module (or adding up to100 percent).Standard reassessment requires students to reattempt only those elements ofassessment from a failed module that were failed on the original attempt. The marksfrom passed elements on the first attempt and from reattempts shall be combined toproduce the module mark. Where students fail elements of assessment repeatedly,46