Module Mark Calculator

Multiply each component mark by the weight it carries, add the results, then divide by the total weight. Coursework worth 35% marked at 58% and an exam worth 65% marked at 71% work out like this.

6,645 divided by a total weight of 100 is 66.45%, which clears the undergraduate pass mark of 40%. That figure then carries its credits into the credit weighted mean for the year, which the year average calculator works out across a full 120 credits.

The divisor is the weight that carried a mark, not a fixed 100, so a module with the exam still to sit gives a usable figure. Leave the exam blank in that same module and the answer is 58% on the 35% that has been marked, with 65% of the module still to come.

Weights that do not reach 100 behave the same way. Each one is measured against their own total, so three components adding up to 90% return 64% rather than a figure diluted by the 10% that was never entered.

An undergraduate module at levels 4 to 6 passes at 40%. A postgraduate taught module at level 7 passes at 50%. Between those two lines the same mark goes both ways: coursework at 42% and an exam at 48%, each worth 50%, come to 45%, which passes a second year module and falls short on a master's one.

Both figures are sector convention rather than national law, and each university sets and publishes its own. The Open University ran a 40% postgraduate pass mark and moved to 50% module by module across three academic years.

Pass a module on a resit and the recorded mark is normally held to the pass mark, whatever the resit itself earned. Those components come to 75%, and capped they go on the transcript as 40%. The capped figure is the one that feeds the year average: across a 120 credit year with three other 30 credit modules, that is 56.25% rather than 65%, a gap of 8.75 percentage points on the figure the degree classification calculator then weights.

The cap and the pass mark are two separate figures, so the field takes its own number. The University of Manchester publishes a lower one: Referred passes are capped at the lowest compensatable mark of 30, not at 40. Deferral marks, where a first sit is delayed for certified mitigating circumstances, are not capped at all.