I've made a horrible mistake

[Moominfan]

So due to finish my degree employers have agreed to fund a masters all is looking well. Had my final module result and it's a fail. I've submitted my draft not my actual assignment. I can resit but grade will be capped which will drag my entire degree down outside of threshold for a masters. 6years of part time study.

Can you please tell me about your awful mistakes? I can't believe I've done something so stupid. Don't whether to laugh or cry

They haven't. You're the second person I've seen saying their paragraphs have vanished when I can see them. I wonder if it's a certain browser.

what are you complaining about?

its upsetting whats happened but even you didnt notice til the results came in-if everyone did that how could they know who was telling the truth and who just wanted to resit because theyd failed

Excellent advice again @PersianCatLady

Congratulations on your graduation!

My last post, complaint is that the consequences out weigh the action. Also mentioned that I've not gone down the mitigating circumstances route, spoke to student support and they said sadly doesn't come under mitigating circumstances. Came to terms that it's looking like resit fail then another module. But need to atleast give it ago, puts my masters back a whole year then there's the embarrassment of telling people why I'm not graduating this year

You really can't complain, you will be laughed out of the building. The consequences are very clear.

Huggybear I found this out Tuesday. 5 years of work completely devastated never felt so awful. Couldn't possibly feel worse. You don't need to stick the boot in. I'm living the consequences. I'd like to think nobody would be so mean spirited as to laugh at me

I’m sorry it happened x don’t you have to check and double check before you submit? I know when I did at my brick uni we had to submit then it would come up with the text below and we had to agree that was what we were submitting. But that was with turnitin.

But you must understand that they will be looking at this from an objective view. I understand it's difficult for you, I do, I'm just trying to show you that it won't be difficult for them, unless the OU is very different I guess.

Yea and it feels really shit. I just came here for abit if sympathy to be honest. Spent the past few days having a good cry beating myself up. Anticipating that I'll have to go down resit/fail pay for next module.

@ChadWithAK OU uses TurnItIn too as well

@Demiguise Thanks mate

Good luck with your studies and Don't forget when it gets hard that you can do this and you will.

OK How come your draft at that stage wasn't worth more than a fail?

I hate to say it but I don't understand how your draft was not almost the same as your actual EMA at that late stage in the module.

That's awful. Bugger.

I'm so sorry.

Bloody hell there are some nasty sods on here, have some of you never made a mistake? Even if drs and nurses make harmful mistakes they get to talk it through and are supported if it was just a mistake.

I'm so sorry you are going through this. If you decide to fail deliberately get it in writing that your retake won't be capped.

Oh god op

😱

My xp has been doing an ou degree pt while working ft and i know what a slog it is. You have my itmost sympathies, i read your post utterly horrified. Poor poor you. I do hope you get somewhere and manage to appeal.

Does the university your masters will be at have a student advice place you could access, either at the uni itself or the atudent union? It might be worth a shot trying there and seeing if they say the same as the ou people because failing on purpose sounds risky 😐

...i know yr not a student there yet but they shouldn’t be that busy this time of year and they may take pity on you (i would)

Draft was just a random jumble of ideas notes ect with a few extracts and no referencing quite clearly a draft. I just used it for ideas not actual content that went into assignment

It is not nasty or horrible to ask a question or state a fact.

It is shit for the OP but it is her fault and the OU have to be strict otherwise it would devalue their degrees.

Like a PP said, if the OU accept what the OP said and allowed her to resubmit without capping, what is to stop other students doing the same thing in order to get more time in which to prepare their EMAs?

Thanks lunar that's good advise I'd hate to retake after a failed submission for it only to be capped again. To raw at the minute but I'd like to think in many years to come it's going to make a funny story

This sucks. I empathise. I'm a uni lecturer and one of my final year students failed to upload one of the parts of her final dissertation. I knew it was a genuine error, but the 'assessments team' at my university would not let us accept the missing part as no one realised her error until after the assessments submission window had passed.

I thought it was incredibly harsh and unreasonable of them. Their response is 'we have to stick by the rules to be fair to all students'. Sucked massively for the student and it significantly lowered her final dissertation mark (although overall didn't affect her degree classification).

I've sent screen shots of the date/time of when the assignments are saved. It's nasty to kick someone when their down. Made it pretty clear it's a horrible mistake that I've made, trying my best to make good an awful situation. The likeliness of me getting anywhere with it is unlikely, going to my original post I just wanted to hear other people's fuck ups and antidotes to cheer myself up.

Soulrider - what an experience gosh

The thing is when you submit your work with the OU you are then prompted to download what you have submitted to check it is the right document. So this might be the reason they are not being flexible.

If you retake the module then it will be starting from afresh so your scores will definitely not be capped.

However, I would be concerned about whether or not you could resubmit identical essays as TMAs due to rules around plagiarism (self plagiarism is a thing, howverr annoying!). You may have to re write every TMA.

@moominfan, I’m sorry for your cock up, and in the spirit if your OP here’s mine.
Years ago I was doing a placement as part of my degree with M&S as a trainee manager. I got given the job of ordering bread for the food hall for 23 and 24 December. I massively mis calculated and over ordered so much white sliced that a whole island unit was packed solid all day long and about 90% went to waste.
Another time, years later, i only remembered I’d agreed to pick up a friend’s 7 year old daughter from school on the Sunday afternoon, two days too late 😳 I gave the child some celebrations chocolates by way if apology and she thought I was great. Her mum did forgive me. In the end.