You are required to submit a RAC application if your academic standing is RENN or SUPP. 

Visiting your curriculum advisor 👋

Who are the curriculum advisors?

• Commerce: com-rac@uct.ac.za

• Engineering and the Built Environment: Dr Malibongwe Manono

• Health Sciences: Dr Kerrin Begg

• Humanities: Dr Shannon Morreira

• Law: Lindani Mkhwanazi

• Science: Mohammed Kajee

Reasons for Appeal

Key to  a successful appeal is providing as much context and supporting information as possible to get a full picture of why you struggled academically through the year. 

During the deliberation, your full appeal will be read and members of the committee will try to answer three specific questions - based on the information you provide:

• Were there significant events or circumstances, probably mostly beyond the control of the student, which impacted adversely on the student’s academic performance and explain the poor academic performance and were these circumstances well beyond the events or circumstances which happen to most students from time to time?

• Is there evidence (letters, documents, etc.) to confirm the events or circumstances, and a clear description of how they affected the student, and does the timing of the events correlate with the poor performance?

• Is there evidence that the difficulties have been dealt with, or are being dealt with, or that there are plans in place, so that there is a good chance that the poor performance will not simply repeat itself this year.

You are advised to draft your appeal in a way that provides information in these order.

Transferring to a different faculty or degree/stream in your faculty?

Reach out to one of the AAI advisors should you need some support on how to kick-off your RAC application. Send your RAC query to uctcares@uct.ac.za or by clicking on the icon.