Coventry University
degree classification calculator

Class boundaries

What do I need for a First?

The planner under the calculator works backwards from Coventry’s own algorithm. Enter the marks you have so far, leave the years you have not finished empty (or set how many credits are still to come), and it shows the lowest mark you would need in every remaining module to reach each class. It runs the same calculation as the calculator, using the year weights and the best-credits rule.

The answer is a single mark repeated across every remaining module. Real marks vary, and where only some credits count or a class can be reached through a share of high marks, an uneven spread can sometimes get there with a slightly lower average. “Already secured” means the algorithm gives that class even at 0 in what is left, but you still have to pass those modules.

There is no year weighting. There is a pool, and three slices of it.

Almost every other university on this site multiplies a second-year average by one number and a final-year average by another. Coventry does not. Regulation 6b.11.1 b) builds a pool of your passed and condoned modules and takes the highest-marked part of it three different ways: (i) the best 100 credits at Level 6 or above; (ii) the best 220 credits at Level 5 and above, with at most 120 credits drawn from Level 5; (iii) the best 300 credits at Level 4 and above, with at most 120 from each of Levels 4 and 5. You get whichever produces the highest mark, automatically.

The slice is taken across the whole pool, not level by level

This is the detail that makes Coventry different from the other discount rules on this site. Sheffield Hallam keeps the best 100 credits at each level; Portsmouth drops the worst 20 at each level. Coventry pools first. On a standard student with 120 credits a level, route (ii) means dropping the worst 20 credits across Levels 5 and 6 combined — which could be two bad Level 5 modules and nothing from Level 6, or the other way round. Route (iii) drops the worst 60 credits across all three levels together. Dropping 20 from each level would give a different, and usually lower, answer.

A failed module is absent, not averaged in

Regulation 6b.11.1 a) is specific: the modules used are those with the highest passed and/or condoned marks. A module you failed and never redeemed does not drag your average down — it is not in the pool at all. At most universities a zero sits in the calculation and costs you; at Coventry it costs you only the credits it would have contributed. One consequence worth understanding: because the routes need 100, 220 or 300 credits of passed work, enough failures can make a route unavailable rather than merely bad.

Your course can force a module into the calculation

The same regulation adds that individual courses may designate modules that must be included in the classification even when they are not among your highest marks — and it says this normally includes the project or dissertation. This calculator cannot know which modules your course designates, so it applies the plain rule. If your project mark is below the slice you would otherwise get, your real classification mark may be lower than the figure here. Your course handbook is where that is written down.

Rounding decides the boundary, and there is nothing else

Regulation 6b.11.1 f) sets the boundaries at 70%, 60%, 50% and 40% “after rounding” — so the mark is rounded to a whole number and the boundary is tested against that. A 69.5 becomes 70 and is a First. Coventry does not publish which way an exact half rounds; this calculator rounds halves up, which is the usual convention, and the Registry’s figure is the authoritative one. Beyond that there is nothing: 6b.11.1 g) says you are automatically entitled to the class the calculation produces, and there is no borderline zone, no volume-of-credits test and no discretion to lift you. Discretion runs one way only — 6b.11.1 i) forbids downgrading except after an academic conduct case.

Which regulations apply to you, and why this matters more at Coventry than elsewhere

Coventry runs several modes of its undergraduate framework side by side. Section 6 (Mode C) and Section 6b (Mode E) use the 100 / 220 / 300 slices above, and Mode E covers the large majority of courses. Section 6c (Mode F), new for 2026-27, uses smaller slices — 90, 210 and 300 — which changes the answer on the same marks. A fourth mode, Section 6f (Mode G), applies only to the School of Health and Care. Each version also states the enrolment window it covers, so the answer depends on your course and your year of entry. Coventry publishes a course-to-mode spreadsheet, but the copy linked from its regulations page maps courses only as far as 2021/22 — so your course handbook is the reliable place to check which section applies to you.

Integrated master’s and top-up degrees use their own slices

A single-award integrated master’s is classified on the best 100 credits at Level 7, the best 220 credits at Level 7 and above (maximum 120 at Level 6), or the best 300 credits at Level 5 and above (maximum 120 at each of Levels 5 and 6) — the same shape one level up, and 90 / 210 / 300 under Mode F. Where the integrated master’s is awarded as a dual award with a bachelor’s, the bachelor’s is classified by the ordinary rule above and the master’s carries Merit or Distinction instead of a class. A top-up award is classified on the best 100 credits at Level 6 or above alone. This page covers the honours bachelor’s degree.

What this calculator does not do

It applies the published algorithm to the marks you enter. It cannot know your programme’s approved variances, any extenuating circumstances, capped resit marks, or how a Board of Examiners will use its discretion. Where a rule is a judgement rather than a formula, the page says so rather than guessing.

Sources

Every figure on this page is read from Coventry’s own regulations:

• Coventry University — Academic Regulations, Section 6b: Regulations for the Course Based Undergraduate Curriculum Framework (Mode E), 2026-27 — reg 6b.11.1 read in full: a) the pool of highest passed and/or condoned modules and the power of a course to designate modules that must be included; b) the three classification calculations and the integrated master’s and top-up variants; e) credit weighting; f) the 70/60/50/40 boundaries after rounding; g) automatic entitlement to the class the calculation produces; i) the prohibition on downgrading. Published as a Word document on Coventry’s SharePoint document store.
• Coventry University — Academic Regulations, Section 6 (Mode C) 2025-26 and Section 6c (Mode F) 2026-27 — read for the differences between modes: Mode C’s reg 6.11.1 gives the same 100 / 220 / 300 slices as Mode E, though its boundary clause omits the words “after rounding”. Mode F’s reg 6c.11.1 gives smaller slices — 90 credits at Level 6, 210 at Levels 5 and above, 300 at Levels 4 and above — and 90 credits for top-up awards.
• Coventry University — Courses: Modes of Regulation (spreadsheet) — the course-to-mode mapping linked from the regulations page. Read and found to cover 2017/18 to 2021/22 only; in its final column Section 6b is by far the most common undergraduate mode. It does not map current cohorts, which is why this page tells students to check their course handbook.

Regulations change between intakes. Your own cohort’s handbook is always authoritative.