Assessment of each Unit and Disclosure of Results

Details of how a unit is to be assessed and the relative weighting of each component will be given as soon as classes commence.

All exercises, papers and other assignments submitted for assessment will be returned with an indication of mark or grade.

In assessing any piece of work, teachers will normally apply as wide a spread of marks as is appropriate. When several teachers are involved in the same assessment task, a marking scheme will be agreed to in advance, and scripts will normally be exchanged before final results are determined in order to ensure consistency of marking. In rare cases where marking standards produce significant differences between cores, the Department may decide to scale marks in the interests of fairness.

Where a unit is assessed wholly by means of class-work, tutorial papers, essays or other assignments, results, wherever possible, will be communicated to students progressively.

Where formal written examinations are a major means of assessment, marked examination papers may be returned to students at the discretion of the examiner. Where papers are not returned:

• results will be communicated to all students in the case of an end of semester examination;
• if you wish to see your marked paper you may do so, but you will not normally be permitted to take it away. (The Academic Board has recommended that examination papers 'which involve the repeated use of the same material in successive examinations may continue to be kept confidential'.)