Assessment

Continuous evaluation

It consists of an exam at half the semester (Exam1) and another one at the end of the semester (Exam2). The average mark of these two exams leads to the continuous evaluation mark for the theory classes:

MarkTheoryCE = (Mark Exam1 + Mark Exam2) / 2

From this mark, the final mark of the subject is computed as follows:

If MarkTheoryCE >= 4 --> FinalMark = (0.7 x MarkTheoryCE) + (0.13 x MarkLabReport) + (0.13 x MarkLabReport "in-situ") + (0.04 x MarkLabExam)

If MarkTheoryCE < 4 --> FinalMark = MarkTheoryCE

Therefore, it is necessary that the student has a mark equal or greater than 4 to allow the laboratory marks to be averaged with the rest of the activities.



Re-assessment

Students who have been evaluated of the two exams of continuous evaluation, and have obtained an average mark of continuous evaluation MarkTheoryCE >= 2.5 will be eligible to attend the re-assessment exam.

The re-assessment exam will be carried out within the period of exams published by the School. In this exam, the student can re-assess the part corresponding to the Exam1, the part corresponding to the Exam2, or both. The mark obtained in each part of the re-assessment exam (mark ExamRA1, mark ExamRA2) supersedes the previous mark that the student had in the corresponding continuous evaluation exam. The re-assessment mark is computed as follows:

MarkTheoryRA = (Mark {Exam1 or ExamRA1} + Mark {Exam2 or ExamRA2}) / 2

The final mark of the subject is then computed as follows:

If MarkTheoryRA >= 4--> FinalMark = (0.7 x MarkTheoryRA) + (0.13 x MarkLabReport) + (0.13 x MarkLabReport "in-situ") + (0.04 x MarkLabExam)

If MarkTheoryRA < 4 --> FinalMark = MarkTheoryRA

Laboratory rules

• The assistance to all laboratory classes is compulsory.
• Laboratory exercises will be carried out individually.
• The pre-lab report must be done individually as well by each student and delivered before the start of the laboratory session.
• The report of each laboratory session must be delivered one week after the end of the last laboratory session of that experiment. Any delay in the delivery of the report will be penalised in the corresponding mark.
• The laboratory professor may request the students to deliver a preliminary version of the laboratory report when finishing the session ("in situ" report), in order to evaluate the progress of the student during the lab session.

Repeating students

If they had passed the laboratory part of the course in previous years, they will not need to do the laboratory classes again. By default, the marks that they obtained in that part will be maintained. If a repeating student would like to repeat the laboratory classes this year, then he/she will need to inform the professor in charge of the course.

Consideration of "Not assessable"

Students not performing any examination (neither the two exams of the continuous evaluation nor the re-assessment exam) will be marked as "Not assessable".



Additional considerations

Without prejudice to other disciplinary measures that may deem necessary in accordance to the academic regulation, any irregularity committed by the student that may alter the mark of an assessment activity will lead this activity to be marked with zero points.  For instance, copying or letting copy a laboratory report or any another assessment activity will involve to fail it with a mark equal to zero. Furthermore, such activity will not be able to be re-assessed during the same academic course. If this activity has a minimum mark associated to it, then the subject will be graded as failed.

If the student commits irregularities in various assessment activities of the course, the final mark of the course will be 0 in virtue of point 10, article 116, of the Academic Regulation.