British study abroad score line
The passing line for British undergraduate courses is 40 points, which means that you can pass only if you reach 40 points or more. Therefore, when students receive their own papers or their test scores are lower than 40, it means that this assignment has failed. But this is not a real failure. As I said before, this is only part of the score of the course assignment 100%, and it can't fully represent the students' real achievements in this course.
Students can still get a higher score from other assignments in this course to balance another score below 40, so as to reach a score greater than or equal to 40% in the final score of the whole course, which is the final real score of students.