What is a Re-Unit or Repeat Assessment?
A Re-Unit (or Repeat Assessment as the University of Portsmouth now calls it), is when you are required to redo all the assessments of a unit. Students who are given a Re-Unit are normally advised to attend the unit, which is to join the next official run of the unit and to study it with that group of students. However, there is no requirement for the student to do this, all that is required is that the complete sets of assessments are submitted. The assessments will be marked in the normal way and an overall mark for the unit calculated in the normal way, that is by combining both coursework and examination marks. If the overall marks for the unit is 40% or higher then you will have passed your Re-Unit. The Unit Assessment Board will then award the credit points for that unit. However, the mark that is given for that unit, and the mark therefore that is used in the calculation of your degree, will only be 40%.
