The Examination Period and what happens next Dr Mike Spann 1 st Year Tutor School of Electronic, Electrical & Computer Engineering The University of Birmingham 23 rd April 2012

2 Today’s Talk  Exam Dates  Procedures and Regulations  Marking Procedures  Results and Feedback  Revision  Progression to Next Year  Resits/Resubmissions This talk will be made available on the student information section of WebCT.

3 Exam Dates  The Examinations will take place from Monday 29 th April until Friday 31 st May  Exams start at hrs or hrs  Resit Examinations will take place from Tuesday 27 th August until Friday 6 th September  Timetables for ALL exams on

4 Procedures and Regulations  Full details on Academic Services website Services

5 Attending the exam  Find the room and be there at least 15 minutes early  You can’t leave the room in the first half hour or last ten minutes  Follow instructions  Don’t bring any notes, papers etc to your desk and don’t remove unused answer books  Bring all the pens, pencils you need to your desk

6 Electronic Devices  Calculators are permitted unless the question paper states otherwise. Check your calculator is permitted. You can’t use the calculator on your phone or other device  Switch your phone off and place it on the floor under your desk  No audio devices are permitted

7 Student Support Agreements If you have a student support agreement  Collect a personalised timetable from the Enquiry Office, Block C, Aston Webb Building  For the resit exams, your personalised timetable will be sent to the home address on the student portal  Check the arrangements with the Undergraduate Office before the exams start

8 Fit to Sit  Refer to the fit to sit and extenuating circumstances forms you signed with your tutor  Detailed regulations are on website  If you attend the exam you have declared yourself “Fit to Sit”  Otherwise follow the procedure for application of Extenutating Circumstances as soon as possible Deadline for submission of documentation 6 th June (main) and 9 th September (resits).

9 Dictionaries  If your first language is not English you can take, a clean, unmarked, standard dictionary into most exams  Your dictionary may be inspected during the exam  You must complete a Dictionary Approval Form and get it stamped by Academic and Student Administration and bring the form to the examDictionary Approval Form  More information on Academic Services websiteAcademic Services

10 Exam Tactics  Follow the instructions on the paper and the answer book  Read the questions carefully, answer all parts  Plan your time  Write clearly  Write your answers on the lined pages in the answer book The plain pages are for rough work and are not marked

11 Marking Procedures (1)  Exams are marked by the member of staff who set the questions according to a marking scheme.  The questions and marking scheme have been checked internally AND by external examiners.  The marking process is checked by a second marker.  A third marker (“moderator”) checks that the marking scheme was applied correctly to a sample of papers, including ALL papers close to class borders and “fail” papers.

12 Marking Procedures (2)  Year tutors check the collated marks and arrange further checks if required  The impact of extenuating circumstances is assessed on 6 th June  External Examiners are here to scrutinise the process 10 th -12 th June  Exam board (all staff) on 11 th – 12 th June reviews the marks and decisions and submits them to the University  Marks returned to students by personal tutors Friday 14 th June

13 Results and Feedback

14 Exam Results 1 st and 2 nd year  The results for 1 st and 2 nd years will be available from your tutor after 10am on Friday 14 th June from on Monday 17 th June BE HERE to see your tutor to discuss your results  Results will not be given or discussed over the phone

15 Exam Results 3 rd year  Results will not be given or discussed over the phone  Make sure you have returned all project equipment  Degree classifications posted on notice board outside UG Office 3.30pm, Wed 12 th June unless you instruct us to hide yours (see year handbook page 5 for more details)  Full results available from UG office on 14 th June  Results also available from my.bham.ac.uk on 17 th June

16 Feedback  1 st and 2 nd year students: See your tutor on Friday 14 th June to collect your results and get advice on options as needed  Feedback on answers will be given in the “Student Information” section of WebCT – 28 th June We provide generic written feedback on each exam question as well as copies of the papers and specimen solutions, and a breakdown of their marks on each question

17 Revision  Engineering is about DOING not just remembering  It is highly recommended that your revision includes working on previous years’ papers  Previous years’ papers and solutions are available from WebCT (School database) via “my.exams” Search under assessment code e.g. A12345 or title  Make sure you can do the tutorial questions too

18 Progression  1 st to 2 nd year  2 nd to 3 rd or 3 rd /4 th year  Weightings of marks  1 st year performance IS important Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4 BEng0 %25 %75 % MEng0 %20 % 40 %

19 1 st to 2 nd year  Pass at least 100/120 credits Note you need a total of 320 to get a degree  Mean year mark equal to above 40 %  Pass pre-requisites for your 2 nd year degree stream  You can resit individual courses with mean marks below 40 % in August to gain the credits but the marks are capped at 40 %  You only get one resit opportunity

20 2 nd to 3 rd or 3 rd /4 th year To go onto 3 rd Year BEng nd year credits incl. resits To go onto MEng 220 credits 1 st /2 nd year Average at least 60 % (2:1) If average is % we may (i) calculate without the MOMD (ii) look at mode as well as mean Pass pre-requisite modules No transfer MEng BEng after year 3 First Year Second Year 3rd Year BEng 3rd Year MEng 4th Year MEng

21 Resits/Resubmissions

22 Resits/Resubmissions (1)  The deadline for appeals 1 st July (By 4pm). See Student Conduct and Appeals website for allowed appealsStudent Conduct and Appeals  No resits for 3 rd year students  Make time over the summer to revise and sit the exams/do the coursework  You can resit overseas (apply before 8 th July). The admin fee for this is £ Or…make travel arrangements to be here

23 Resits/Resubmissions (2)  Coursework resubmission will be released on WebCT on Monday 24 th June  Deadline for resubmission is 12:00hrs, 19 th August  Exam timetable released on on 7 th August You are responsible for getting your timetablewww.my.bham.ac.uk  Results from Undergraduate Office on Friday 13 th September (not tutors) Online on Monday 16 th September on

24 And Finally……  Revision classes this week Your lecturers may not be available at other times Timetable is on WebCT Check the latest version  Academic Year starts on Monday 30 th September All students must attend induction events Make travel arrangements in good time

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