u/-anonfitness-

I’m a 2nd year uni student and I genuinely can’t decide whether to sit an exam I’m likely to fail or defer it. I’ve had constant back-to-back exams recently and I’ve been struggling badly with depression during this period. I had a neuroscience exam yesterday, have a biology exam tomorrow, and then only one psychology exam left next week.

The problem is that I’m massively unprepared for biology. I only really started revising properly yesterday because I’ve been in a depressive episode, and I severely underestimated how much content there was to memorise.

The exam is split into 3 sections:
Essay (40%)
Problem solving (40%)
MCQ (20%)

You need 7/20 overall to pass. However, if you get between 4–6.9, you’re allowed a resit. The resit is online/open-book, but capped at 7/20. If you score too low for the resit, you have to retake the whole module next year.
If I defer, I’d likely sit the exam around late May/early June instead.

Right now I’m only confident on maybe 2 out of 22 topics, so sitting it tomorrow feels like a huge gamble depending on what comes up. But part of me wonders whether it’s worth attempting anyway in hopes of getting into the resit bracket.

I’ve practiced 2 past papers and gotten round about 4.5/20, which would put me in the online resit if I performed similarly tomorrow (aiming for the online resit is probably my best chance at this point anyway if I do sit it).

Any advice would be appreciated.

TL;DR: do I sit an exam I am likely to fail tomorrow and take the gamble I get enough to be entitled to an online resit?

I (24F) have been with my boyfriend (25M) for 3 years. We were chatting casually over text and he said something that really shocked me, and it escalated from there. I haven’t replied to his last message yet because I don’t know how to respond.

It started with him making a comment about not liking a place when it’s “full of certain ethnic groups.” I told him that was a strange thing to say and called it out.

He then argued that he’s not racist, but that certain groups “don’t belong here” because of how they behave. I responded that it’s not fair to judge entire groups based on the behaviour of some individuals.

After that, he went on a long rant about immigrants, saying they are ruining the country, don’t integrate, and are a burden on society. He also made very strong negative comments about a specific religion and said they shouldn’t be allowed here.

He did briefly say “not all of them,” but continued to generalise entire communities.

I know people can have different views on immigration, but this felt extreme and has made me really uncomfortable and honestly blindsided by how harsh his views are.

I’d appreciate advice on how to handle this.