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The University’s examination
and assessment regulations
Hilary Gilbert
Academic Standards and Partnership
[email protected]
Regulations
• General Examination and Assessment Regulations
(GEAR)
Assessment, progression, award regulations
(sections B,C,D)
examination boards (section E)
• course–specific regulations
PSRB requirements
course handbooks
Common Academic Framework
• aligns with FHEQ and HE credit framework
• modules
multiples of 10 credits
mandatory, compulsory, optional
• f/t ug programme 120 credits per academic year
• f/t pg programme 180 credits per year
• stages of study to allow progression
• maximum registration period
Assessment
• numerical marking 0-100%
• pass mark for module
ug 40% (threshold for each assessment component 30%)
pg 50% (threshold for each assessment component 40%)
• undergraduate - common marking/grading scale
• postgraduate - 60-69% merit, 70%+ distinction
Extensions to deadlines
mitigating circumstances
• non-submission, late submission, non-attendance at exam
= 0%
• student can apply for an extension to deadline
• students can submit a request for mitigating circumstances
to be taken into account by exam board for:
absence from an assessment
failure to submit assessed work
failure to submit assessed work by deadline (late)
unrepresentative performance
Examination Boards
• two-tier system
Area Examination Board (AEB)
Course Examination Board (CEB)
• boards can be combined
Area Examination Boards
• confirm marks and consider results of individual modules
• possible module results
pass
refer
fail
• determine the nature of any referral
• moderate marks for whole group, if necessary
• mitigating circumstances - not considered for individual
students
Referral (discretion)
• student must complete additional work to pass
module
• permitted at all levels
• no minimum mark
• module capped at 40%/50%
• course-specific regulations indicate where not
permitted
• maximum 50% of total credit studied in a stage
Course Examination Board
• consider results of individual students
• may not change AEB marks
• may use discretion but only where regulations allow
• mitigating circumstances
pre-board meeting of small group, including the chair, reviews claims
and make recommendations on acceptance to CEB
deferral opportunity for any failed module
note acceptance where module passed
• academic misconduct
considers recommendation of penalty from
investigating panel
Course Examination Boarddecisions
• Progression
progress - unconditional, conditional
endorse recommended referrals, progression decision deferred
to next meeting of board
accept mitigating circumstances, permit deferral(s), progression
decision deferred to next meeting of board
do not progress - require student to slow progress and repeat
failed modules in part-time mode
• Fail and exclude from course on academic grounds
• Receive an award (borderlines)
Unconditional progression
• passed all modules in the stage
• compensation awarded (discretion)
credit awarded to enable student to progress to next
stage or achieve award when not all modules passed
any level
maximum 20 credits per 120 credit stage
no change to mark for failed module
not for mandatory modules
no minimum mark/stage average
Repeat (discretion)
• module repeated in full
• permitted at all levels
• module capped at 40%/50%
• up to 20 credits for every 120 credits can be
trailed into next stage (conditional progression)
Reassessment
• referral - tied to original take of module (mark
capped)
• repeat – take module again normally with attendance
(if in the following stage - trailing) (mark capped)
• deferral – reassessment as if for first time due to
upheld mitigating circumstances (mark not capped)
• number of assessment attempts to pass a module = 3
• repeat a module once
Awards
Award
Algorithm
Borderline
Bachelors degree with L5:L6
honours
Ratio 25:75
Classification
Yes
2%
Criteria in GEAR
Foundation degree
L5 marks only
Merit - credit –weighted mean mark 60.0069.99
Distinction - credit-weighted mean mark
70.00+
Yes
2%
Criteria in GEAR
Postgraduate
(PGCert, PGDip,
Masters)
Merit – credit-weighted mean mark over all
modules of at least 60.00 and at least 60 in
the dissertation
Distinction - credit-weighted mean mark
over all modules of at least 70.00 and at
least 70 in the dissertation
No
Administration
• External examiners’ homepage on:
http://staffcentral.brighton.ac.uk/quality
GEAR, external examiners’ handbook (contact
details), fees and expenses form
• school (or Faculty)
exam board arrangements, students’ work,
assessment details, course handbooks,
assessment policy
send your completed fees and expenses forms
How to keep in touch
Registry
annual report by email to:
[email protected]
Polly Kearsey (Academic Standards
Administrator)
01273 642619