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COMP1120: Assessment

Assessment Timetable

See the Lectures page for an approximate scheduling of the assessment activities.

Assessment Components

The proposed assessment scheme consists of two components: a Continuous Assessment (CA) component and an Exam (EX) component.

The CA component consists of three assignments (30% each), and a Tut/Lab mark (10%). The latter will be determined from attendance and performance at your tutorial/laboratory sessions; results from quizzes related to tutorial exercises may form part of this mark.

The EX component consists of the Mid-Semester Quiz/Exam (30%), and the end-of-semester Exam (70%). Note that the Pre-selection Quiz plays no role in this component.

Marked assessment can be collected from your tutorial/laboratory classes, generally 1 to 2 weeks after its hand-in date. Uncollected assessment will be kept by your tutor until the end of semester, after which it will be available from the department office.

Assessment Component Weighting and Combination

It is proposed that the compoents combined with a 60:40 weighted geometric mean. The final mark (/100) is determined with a 60% weight from the EX component (/100) and a 40% weight from the CA component (/100) as follows:

Where the components are close together (i.e. within 15%), geometric mean is almost identical to the normal (arithmetic) mean. However, if they differ greatly, the value is shifted towards that of the smaller component. For example, a value of EX=34 is the minimum EX mark for the nominal pass mark of 50 (whereas with the arithmetic mean, the minimum EX mark is 17). The geometric mean thus provides a smooth and elegant way of ensuring that satisfactory standards of performance are attained in both components.

You may like write a small computer program (or use the Unix bc command) to explore the nature of the geometric mean.

Access to your marks

You can check the marks we have recorded for you progressively throughout the semester. You can do this through the graphical interface of mymarkstool, or through the text utility command mymarks comp1120.

Supplementary Exams

Supplementary exams will be awarded only to those students who meet the following criteria:

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