REASSESSMENT

extended resulting in the postponement being longer than the one year, the student may be advised to withdraw from their studies whereby the cancellation policy will apply. The student will then need to reapply to register when they are in a position to recommence their course.

If the request is motivated due to a medical condition, the postponement application needs to include a valid medical report. The postponement request will be reviewed, and the outcome will be communicated to the student and the account holder. Please note, an application does not result in automatic approval; approval is at the discretion of OW. No extra fee is charged for postponement, and the account holder is only liable to pay for the academic terms attended/completed in that year. No refunds are provided if the full year has been settled, the credit will be applied when the student resumes their studies. Should a student opt to cancel following the postponement, the normal cancellation fees apply.

If the Student is considering postponement, it is important to seek advice and support as early as possible from the Registrar. The student is herewith notified that no verbal agreement with any employee of OW is enforceable. Postponement will only be considered if the student has submitted the request in writing by means of completing the relevant forms available on OW’s website. Until such time that the postponement is formally approved, the student is subject to complete academic tasks and assignments timeously. Should a student postpone at the end of a Term, without having completed the term’s assignments, the student will be required to repeat the full term and assignment on resumption of his/her studies. Postponement application form

POSTGRADUATE EXTENSION PROCESSES

As per the rules of combination for the BA Honours in Visual Communication programme, a student who has failed Critical Discourses or Research Methodologies may not continue with the Research Paper or Creative Production components. The proposal (the summative assessment for Research Methodologies) will need to be passed successfully and approved in order to continue with the course.

Apart from Research Methodologies and Critical Discourses, where standard reassessment procedures apply, the procedures around reassessment for Creative Production and Research Paper, work differently: An Open Window Supervisor has the right to recommend against the submission of a paper / project they deem unfit for examination at Honours level. As a result, an extension will be possible in June, September or November. A student will need to extend if a supervisor suggests it (June, September or November). For more information on the rules regarding the extension please refer to the Policy on Postgraduate Studies.

MARKS

Students are required to achieve a minimum final mark of 50% to pass any course. Students must earn a minimum final mark of 75% for a course to earn a distinction. A final mark of 48 and 49% will be condoned, and indicated as such on the academic report. For term marks between 40-49% or module marks between 40-47%, students have the opportunity to submit new evidence for an assessment in the form of a resubmission or re-examination. For year subjects, a year mark (calculated on the average across terms) between 40-47% does not result in a reassessment opportunity as students already had a reassessment opportunity in each term of the subject. Lecturers will inform all students in week one of each term of the weighting of the formative and summative assessments related to the term, module and year.