Crazy. What kind of advice you give to people to pay fees to SIM but don't attend lessons? You must either be working in SIM or your brain spoil.
There is no such thing as illegally take modules unless you crash lessons which you never registered for.
The UOL programme is designed specifically for distance-based learning, it is not wrong to self-study and then take the exams yourselves through RELC. In fact, it might be more difficult for you if you were to choose to self-study as the content for each module is very heavy. It is better to have someone or a lecturer to guide you and explain the contents of the modules. To simply put it, SIM is just a teaching institution conducting UOL courses lessons. They are in NO WAY affiliated to UOL, so whatever your test, attendance or prelims results are, they WONT affect your final grading.
It is also not true that you won't get to attend the graduation ceremony. In fact if you skip the SIM graduation, which is nothing but just a fanfare put up to please the parents and family members, you can still go for the actual graduation in London which is held in March every year.
If anyone still has doubts or any questions about self studying for a UOL degree, please feel free to pm me and I will try my best to help. I myself joined SIM and left after my first year, I must say again, the teachers are good and lecturers are helpful. My results were best when I was in SIM, the next 2 years were hell for me as I struggled a lot coping between the demands of work and studies. Eventually, still, I graduated with third class honours.
Dude, that's the damn reason why you are the few who graduate with third class honours.
I feel that you are one who can't take suggestions and deserved every bit of that lousy grades. Who the hell says you can't pay to SIM and self study? I rather graduate from SIM-UOL with a graduation ceremony then going without it.
The illegally taking mod refers to SIM-UOL, not your so called "self-esteemed" pure Distance learning egoistic attitude. I said taking the UOL course under SIM specifically.
Furthermore, did I even say it's a must to pay and totally not go for lessons? I said it was an option.
Doing it through SIM means you get UOL revision from the academic staffs who can provide additional advice. You can also get lecturer notes despite not attending lessons. You can also get academic advice from SIM if you do put in some effort to even open you mouth.
I suggest that you do not put your own personal failure into my words I didn't infer. If you failed to do well, it had nothing to do with SIM, you are just one of those who failed to work hard and pinpoint on SIM.
I don't work for SIM nor am affiliate to SIM in anyway. I speak from my own views and I AM NOT ASKING YOU TO FOLLOW, it's a mere suggestion. If you can't read and decide to spew your own nonsense, it's no wonder you failed to achieve and your reason is "can't cope and struggled a lot".
I am a part time student who works and I know from my 2 years with SIM. I read every single piece of document line by line many times from SIM, UOL and RELC. So beat that before you even rebut your limited knowledge.
Otherwise go hug your third class honours and be ever so proud of it.
