Results

Undergraduate students 

Your results are discussed at the Board of Examiners' Meeting in July. 

After the meeting, time is needed to process the decisions and make sure everything is accurately recorded. We then return the results and degree classifications to Registry. 

Full results, including your degree classification if you are a final-year student or confirmation of progression if you are continuing your studies, are officially released by Registry once all the marks and decisions have been processed. We would usually expect you to have access to your results by the Friday one week after the Board of Examiners' Meeting. 

For 2026–27, our department’s Undergraduate Board of Examiners’ meeting will take place on Friday 2 July 2027. We expect Registry to be able to publish your results by Friday 9 July 2027 but processing accurate results takes time so this is not guaranteed. 

MSc students 

After the July Board of Examiners’ meeting, you will be given a provisional indication of your performance. 

The Department aims to release provisional results by mid-July. These results have been adjusted and scaled but remain subject to final approval by the MSc Board of Examiners. 

Your final official results, including your project, labs and degree classification, will be published by Registry after the MSc Board of Examiners’ meeting in October. 

For 2025–26, the MSc Board of Examiners’ meeting will take place on Wednesday 14 October 2026. 

Sources for this section

• Programme Specifications
• Imperial guidance on Year and Programme Weighted Averages  
• Imperial Academic Regulations 

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Undergraduate students 

Your Programme Specification explains how the different elements and years of your degree contribute to your final degree classification. 

Imperial awards honours degrees. Degree classifications are agreed at the Board of Examiners’ meeting on the basis of your marks across the relevant parts of your degree. 

The University also publishes guidance on Year and Programme Weighted Averages Calculation. 

Borderline classifications, and uplift decisions for graduating students with mitigating circumstances on record

Imperial awards honours degrees (not "pass" degrees). The classification of honours for all students is decided at the Board of Examiners' meeting in July on the basis of your marks for all parts of the degree course. If your marks exceed the stated borderline for a classification (as set out in the Award of Honours document) then the award is made.

If your overall mark after Part III BEng or Part IV MEng is marginally below the minimum mark for a higher honours classification (between n.8.00 and n9.49 inclusive) your results will be analysed by our UG uplift algorithm and Automatic uplift decisions for graduating students with MCs on Record to see if the class of degree can be raised.  For further information on this you should refer to the Imperial academic regulations.

MSc students 

The university sets the class of Degree that may be awarded as follows:  

• Distinction: 70.00% or above.
• Merit: 60.00% or above but less than 70.00%.
• Pass: 50.00% or above but less than 60.00%.

For MSc students without mitigating circumstances, degree classification is determined according to the Programme Specification. 

The weighted average mark in the designated taught and research aspects of the programme must each meet the threshold for the relevant classification band. 

In practical terms, the current EEE guidance explains that the Exams average, calculated without the MSc Lab, and the Project mark must both be above the relevant threshold, 60% or 70%, to achieve Merit or Distinction. 

Is there a quota for degree classifications? 

No. There is no fixed number of students who can receive a particular degree classification. In theory, everyone graduating in a particular year could receive a First Class degree or, for MSc students, a Distinction. 

Equally, degree outcomes can vary from year to year according to students’ marks. 

Except for moderation where the Board of Examiners considers it warranted, marks are not adjusted to produce a particular distribution of degree classifications. 

When you first receive results, they may still be provisional and may change following moderation and approval by the Board of Examiners. 

The Department initially issues letter grades because: 

• marks might change due to moderation; 

• all marks must be approved by the Board of Examiners before they become official; 

• marks can only officially be released by Registry after the relevant Board of Examiners’ meeting. 

For undergraduate students, third-year students receive provisional letter grades for their autumn-term exams and the Department aims to release these by early March each year. 

All students are issued letter grades for labs and coursework. 

Actual percentage marks for undergraduate modules are released by Registry after the Board of Examiners’ meeting in July. 

For MSc students, a provisional indication of performance, pass or fail, is given for autumn-term exams, which the Department aims to release in early March. Actual percentage marks are released by Registry following the MSc Board of Examiners’ meeting in October. 

The Assessment and Progression section explains the requirements you need to meet to progress to the next academic year. 

Your Programme Specification sets out the detailed assessment weightings and the requirements that apply to your degree programme. 

 In some circumstances, yes. 

There are requirements you must meet in order to continue with particular degree programmes or options. 

The Assessment and Progression section of the EEE student information, and the Programme Specification for your degree explain the requirements that apply to you.  

Some programmes and options, including the Year in Europe, also have conditions which must be met before you can continue with them. 

No. Exams are marked twice and there is substantial checking of marks before results are confirmed. 

Exam papers and solutions are published after the August resit period, usually in September, so you can compare your answers with the solutions provided by the module lecturer. 

No. The current University guidance states that information recorded by students on examination scripts is exempt from subject access under data-protection provisions. 

You will find more information abut this in the University's data protection guidance on exam records.

Individual feedback on examinations is not provided. 

Marking

The member of staff who taught the module marks the exam questions first. 

The marked exams are then given to a second marker, who checks the marking against the marking scheme, confirms that all submitted answers have been seen and checks that they agree with the first marker. 

The first and second markers then meet to go through the papers and agree the marks before these are submitted. 

External examiners can request to see exam papers and marking to evaluate the quality and rigour of the marking against the marking scheme. 

Almost all ELEC exam questions are worth 100 marks. Different exam papers have different numbers of questions, but the mark total is scaled to obtain a percentage. 

Once marking is complete, a small internal committee normally comprising the Examinations Officer, Head of Department, Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Tutor reviews the marks overall. 

Moderation

The Department may decide to moderate the marks for a particular question or exam paper, for example if it was considered too difficult or too long. Any moderation is reported and reviewed at the Board of Examiners’ meeting. 

How moderation works in the department

Full details of the moderation process and data from moderated exams from previous years:Moderation of Module Marks Procedure and annual moderation data

To request an arithmetic mark check request, or to appeal an academic decision, please see the university's guidance on complaints, appeals and discipline.