This might be the first time you have ever failed an exam, or indeed failed at anything. Don’t worry, these are tricky exams and you’re working full-time in a challenging role. Take your time to be sad, then dust yourself off

speak to your Early Careers team. Ensure you resit at a time when you feel you will be fully prepared. Be overly cautious. If you’ve failed an early exam, you are likely to be able to resit almost immediately. If you think you can resit in a week, take two. If you think a month, take a month and a half. It is better to be over prepared than risk failing again. There is no rush.

If you can get hold of your marked paper, do this. If not, reflect on what you think went wrong in the exam. Do you need extra tuition? Review our private tutor page to find out more.

Reframe the failure as a chance to be more confident in the content.

This will only benefit you when sitting future exams. Failing an exam doesn’t mean you cannot go on to pass all the other exams first time! We all have our different strengths - you’ve got this!