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COMP2300 2006

Proposed Assessment Scheme

The assessment for COMP2300 in 2006 will be in two parts:

Assignments: total of two
- Assignment 1: This will be a mark out of 15. (released week 3, due mid week 7)
- Assignment 2: This will be a mark out of 15. (released week 7, due mid week 11)
Final examination: This will be a mark out of 70.
- It will be a 3 hour written exam held at the end of semester during the normal examination period

These components are then added to give your final mark. This may then be scaled to give your overall course mark and grade.

Note:

Any changes to the assessment scheme will be announced and discussed in lectures and posted to this web page.
If there are no changes to the proposed scheme by the end of week 2 (Friday 3 March 2006), it will be the scheme that will be used.

Extensions and Late Penalties for Assignments

In general, there will be no extensions for assignments, the exception being for illness serious enough to keep you in bed, supported by a medical certificate. Other similarly un-foreseeable and serious circumstances may be considered (if similarly verified). Extensions may be granted to a date that is not more than 1 week from the nominal deadline.

Without an explicit extension from the course co-ordinator, late assignments will be penalised at the rate specified on the assignment document.

Collecting Marked Work and Remark Policy

Marked assessment can be collected from your tutorial/laboratory classes, generally 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.

You can check the marks we have recorded for you progressively throughout the semester. You can do this through StReaMS

From the date that your assignment marks are released electronically, you have a period of two weeks in which to question your mark. After this period your mark will be final. Release of your assignment marks will be announced on the course web site and in lectures.

If you are unhappy about the marking of an assignment, first discuss this with your tutor. If you were unable to resolve this with your tutor, the matter can be brought up with the course co-ordinator, who will discuss the matter with you. If, after that, you request a remark, the policy is as follows:

The disputed assignment will be remarked in its entirety by a different tutor. No extra material or explanations may be supplied by the student for the remark.
The remarking will be done in a time frame convenient to the DCS.
The new mark will be final, and may be lower or higher than, or the same as, the original mark.

Special Consideration and Special / Supplementary Exams

If you miss the examination, or wish to request a Special Examination or Special Consideration for an examination, please see Carol Edmondson's page on the subject. From there, there are links to on-line forms (these include a section to be filled out by a medical practitioner, where medical reasons are the grounds for the application).

If you are feeling unwell on the day of an examination, you can consider taking the exam and then applying for Special Consideration. Note that it normally takes fairly severe symptoms before your performance will be significantly affected (and that only for a sufficiently serious condition will a Special Examination be granted, should you decide not to take the exam then).

Supplementary exams will be awarded only to those students who have a final mark of AT LEAST 45/100 but less than 50/100.

Last modified: Thu Feb 9 10:49:11 EST 2006