I was down at Hurn last week and was told by a member of College staff that of the last course to have summatives, out of 33, 26 failed. Of the remaining 7, 5 had already been re-coursed.
So what? So there can be high failure rates on some courses but that doesn't affect anyone who's about to start just the same as if the last course through had a 100% pass rate. It has absolutely no bearing on anything. Get your head down and work hard, nothing else affects your chances as much as your own endeavour.