Discontinue a unit of study
Understand the consequences of withdrawing from a unit, the importance of the census date and the support available to help you manage your studies.
- Discontinue a unit of study
- Domestic students
- Student visa holders
- Late discontinuation under special circumstances
Discontinue a unit of study
Sydney Student outage impacting Discontinue Fail (DF) deadline
Due to a planned upgrade from 5 pm Friday 29 May to 8 am Monday 1 June, Sydney Student was unavailable for students to remove a unit of study prior to the DF deadline on 31 May for some sessions.
If you were impacted by this outage, you can submit a request to remove a unit and have a DF grade applied. Find out more about what you need to do.
Drop a unit of study
You can drop a unit up until the census date. After the census date there may be financial and/or academic penalties.
Late discontinuation
If the census date has passed and you have been impacted by circumstances beyond your control, you can apply to discontinue from a unit of study under special circumstances.