Assessment (coursework, tests and examinations) procedures 2023 Application

Role responsible 
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questions are not known by the students in advance of the
examination
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students are not permitted to bring any material into the examination
(closed book).
Course Director 
Course Director 
Academic Head 
Lecturers may announce during teaching the apportionment of the 
questions in the final examination in relation to the material covered in the 
course. Where examination questions are announced in advance, all or in part, 
this must be approved by the Course Director. 
Teaching staff must ensure that where the apportionment of questions, or the 
questions themselves, are announced in advance that this information is 
published to students through a notice on Canvas or through email 
communication. Once this announcement has been made, the examination 
must be conducted in the notified format. 
The published duration of an examination, as well as calculator or book 
designation, may only be changed with approval of the Academic Head. 
Changes must be submitted to the Assessment Services Course View. 
An examination mode may include paper-based or digital delivery. 
Examinations in digital modes may be completed as invigilated or non-
invigilated examinations.
Assessment Services 
Examination setting 
Examiners 
Examiners 
Academic Head 
Examiners 
Assessors 
Course Director 
Examiners must prepare examination papers according to the 
Guidelines for the Preparation of Examination Papers 
available from 
Assessment Services.
Where two or more Examiners have been appointed in any subject 
they must confer in setting examination papers. Where a difference of 
opinion occurs among Examiners(s) and/or Assessor, the Academic 
Head must, after making due attempt to resolve the difference, determine 
the outcome. 
Examiners and Assessors must observe strict confidence and 
maintain security in the setting of examination papers and in the 
whole marking process. 
Examination papers must be approved by the Course Director and 
submitted for approval through the Exams Paper Submission website. 
All examination papers must be submitted by Group Services by the 
published deadline.
Course Director 

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