What is a Referral or Limited Repeat Assessment (LRA)?
A Referral or LRA occurs when you have failed to meet the learning outcomes of a unit that you have studied. The Unit Assessment Board will specify a piece of work or pieces of work that you must undertake in order to pass the unit, that is to meet the learning outcomes. The most common cases are where the coursework and examination for a unit are assessing different learning outcomes and you have, for example, not passed the coursework, then you will be asked to do another coursework. Similarly, if you have not passed the examination you will have been asked to take another examination. Should you have failed both the coursework and the examination components of a unit you could be referred in both of these, which is have to take a new examination and do another coursework. Sometimes, a completely new piece of work will be set which is set specifically for Referral or LRA students and assesses all of the learning outcomes of the unit. You will be sent details of exactly what you are r
