Estimate final grade after a resit.
A resit is capped at the bare pass in most UK-style schemes: sit it, and the best mark the module can record is the pass threshold itself, regardless of how well you perform. The recorded mark is then the higher of your original attempt and the capped resit — which is why a resit can never lower what is already on your transcript, and why an original mark above the cap makes the resit pointless. The marks-lost figure quantifies the gap between what you demonstrated and what the regulations allow to be recorded.
Module mark after a resit
Recorded mark = max(original mark, min(resit mark, resit cap))
No. The recorded mark is the higher of the original and the capped resit, so the original always acts as a floor. The risk of a resit is time and fees, not a worse mark.
To keep the award fair to students who passed first time. Capping means a resit restores progression without conferring a classification advantage.
Yes — where the first attempt was affected by accepted mitigating circumstances, many institutions treat the resit as a first sit and lift the cap. Set the cap field to 100 to model that case.