Thorpe On Tour: T-40 Days: That Escalated Quickly

Well, this has got awkward fast.

The exam board have just released my results and i'm not going to lie....they're shit. Honestly I thought I had done miles better than this...sure the Spanish was always going to be a car crash but the fact both exams were JUST passes really worries me...especially with one of them, i thought id nailed it!

	Module	Description	Credit	Weight %	Grade	Mark	Result
	BUSI22630	Marketing Management (HY2)	20		Low 2.2	53	Pass
		Presentation		40	High 2.1	68
		Examination		60	Low 3rd	42
	BUSI22680	Exp. Strategy and Innovation	20		Low 3rd	41	Pass
		Examination		60	Low 3rd	42
		Coursework		40	Marginal Fail	38
	INTB20101	Acct & Fin for Intl Mngrs	20		Mid 2.1	65	Pass
		Coursework		100	Mid 2.1	65
	INTB20121	The Intl Busi Environment	20		Mid 3rd	45	Pass
		Coursework		100	Mid 3rd	45
	INTB20440	Intercultural Effectiveness 1	10		Mid 2.2	55	Pass
		Report		100	Mid 2.2	55
	INTB20445	Intercultural Effectiveness 2	10		Marginal Fail	38	Referred
		Report		100	Marginal Fail	38	Referred by Coursework
	ULPS10102	ULP Spanish stage 1	20		Low Fail	18	Referred
		Coursework		70	Low Fail	18	First Sit In Aug/Sep
		Coursework		30	Low Fail	18	Referred by Coursework

So yeah, makes for quite shit reading to be honest...i can take some solace in the fact that mid term coursework is still going alright (Accounting is saving my grade SO MUCH) but what annoys me is marketing...I mean look at that coursework, I know more than the damn exam would lead on! The Strategy & Innovation doesn't surprise me all too much but considering 40% of the exam was multiple choice that should have been a given...

Total Aggregate Score:  44.7%
Now that sounds awful but we have to remember Spanish is contributing to that...once that gets bumped to a 40% at the least then it will be far better (If i work it out right, up to about 48/49%...which is alot easier to work with) And thats not saying i don't get more than the base 40%, theoretically speaking i need Spanish v2 to be roughly 55/60% for me to walk out of the first year with a 2:2 and a realistic shot of getting a 2:1 in the final year overall...so at least i have an aim!


Where to go from here?

I'm lucky i one fact in that the entire of Spanish is being given a second chance, after some much needed negotiations on my side (selling sand to the Arabs style...FU MARKETING!) I will be taking that again out in America completely uncapped ...given the current aggregate percentage I need to basically be fluent come exam day to drag this up to an amount that doesn't require sucking massive dick to get an overall 2:1...sort of proves that next year i need to pull my finger out even more (and believe me, i had already!)

Intercultural sadly is a capped resit, its tedious because 2% can be compensated by the board but in my case they seem to have refused, normally i wouldn't mind too much but at first glance i was told it was 48% not 38%....such is life.


Summary

Got boned, hard. One of my modules in America now matters ALOT and one of them needs to be resit before I even fly out...can't get that one wrong really...Slightly worrying, but defiantly salvageable