Assessment

EVALUATION

ATTENTION: Attendance at laboratory practices is mandatory. Failure to attend laboratory practices without justification will mean that the student CANNOT pass the subject.

In order to pass the subject, students must obtain a mark of ≥5 points (out of 10).

1 - CONTINUOUS EVALUATION

1.1 - THEORY:

It will represent 70% of the final mark. There will be 2 partial tests and each of them will weight 35% on the final mark. The first test will be performed when approximately half of the theoretical lessons have been taught. The second test will be performed at the end of the theoretical lessons.

Although each partial test will evaluate different lessons, the second partial test may also include, indirectly, theory contents of the first one.

In order to obtain an average mark from the 2 partial tests, the mark of each partial test must be ≥ 3.5.

Students who do not take any of the partial tests or do not reach the minimum mark after taking any of them, can take the make-up or recovery test.

Students who have NOT attended the partial exams without justifiable reason, will NOT be able to attend the make-up test.

1.2 - PROBLEMS:

It will represent 10% of the final mark and will be obtained by solving a problem individually during the 2nd partial test. Students who do not take the 2nd partial test because of a justified reason, will be able to do this exercise during the final make-up test.

1.3 - LAB PRACTICES

Practices represent 20% of the final mark. At the end of each practice, students will take a short quiz. The practice mark will be the average obtained from the marks of all the quizzes.

Failure to attend one practical lesson without justification will result in the reduction of the average mark of the questionnaires to 75%. Non-attendance to two practical lessons without justification will imply a 50% reduction. In case of not attending three or more practical lessons without justification the student will not be able to pass the Cell Biology subject.

In order to attend practical lessons, students must justify having pass the biosafety and safety tests found on the Virtual Campus and guarantee their knowledge and accept the rules ofof the laboratories of the Faculty of Biosciences.

1.4 - OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• Students who attend less than 60% of the scheduled assessment activities will be considered NOT ASSESSED. Assessment activities: i) any test to assess the theoretical content; ii) the set ofpractices; iii) individual resolution of a problem. Attendance at ≥3 of these activities will require the introduction of a note in the student's file.
• In the event that the student does not pass the theoretical part of the subject, but passes the practice part (obtaining a minimum of 5 points out of 10), this lab practice mark will be kept for a period of three additional registrations.
• Under no circumstances will the mark of problems be saved.
• Students who cannot attend an individual assessment test for justified reasons (such as a health problem, death of a relative up to the second degree, accident, enjoy the status of elite athlete and have a competition or sports activity with compulsory attendance, etc.) and provide the official documentation corresponding to the teaching staff and the coordination of the degree (official medical certificate explicitly stating the inability to take an exam, police report, justification of the competent sports body, etc.), will have the right to take the exam on another date. The coordination of the grade will see to the realization of this, after consultation with the teaching staff of the subject.
• In order to be able to take the exam to IMPROVE the MARK, the student will need to have the two partial blocks and the problem and the practices approved, and will take an exam of the whole theory. Students must renounce in writing (e-mail) to the mark obtained through partials, notifying to the professor responsible for the subject at least three days in advance of the recovery exam. The mark that will be taken into account will be the one from the last exam taken.

2 - SINGLE EVALUATION

Students who opt for the single assessment must request it within the deadline and form indicated by the Faculty.

2.1 -THEORY AND PROBLEMS:

This part represents 80% of the final grade of the subject, and will be evaluated through:

Single exam of theory and problems: The single assessment of theory and problems will consist of an exam that will be carried out on the day of the 2nd partial test of the subject and will consist of:

• Test-type questions and/or questions or short exercises referring to all theory content;
• A Cell Biology problem;

Theory and problems recovery exam: The recovery of the single assessment will be on the same day and time as the recovery test of the continuous assessment.

2.2 - LABORATORY PRACTICES:

• ATTENTION: Even if students take the single assessment, they must do the lab practices for this subject in face-to-face sessions. Attendance at the lab practices is MANDATORY and INDISPENSABLE to be able to take the single theory and problems exam.
• The practices in the laboratory represent 20% of the final mark of the subject. At the end of each practice, students will take a short quiz about it. The practice mark will be the average obtained from the marks of all the quizzes.
• Failure to attend one practical lesson without justification will result in the reduction of the average mark of the questionnaires to 75%. Non-attendance to two practical lessons without justification will imply a 50%reduction. In case of not attending three or more practical lessons without justification, the student will not be able to pass the Cell Biology subject.

2.3 - OTHER CONSIDERATIONS:

• In the event that the student does not pass the theoretical part of the subject, but passes the lab practice part (obtaining a minimum of 5 points out of 10), this lab practice mark will be kept for a period of three additional registrations.
• Under no circumstances will the note of problems be saved.
• Students who cannot attend an individual assessment test for justified reasons (such as a health problem, death of a relative up to the second degree, accident, enjoy the status of elite athlete and have a competition or sports activity with compulsory attendance, etc.) and provide the official documentation corresponding to the teaching staff and the coordination of the degree (official medical certificate explicitly stating the inability to take an exam, police certificate, justification of the 'competent sports body, etc.), will have the right to take the test on another date. The coordination of the qualification will see to the realization of this, after consultation with the teaching staff of the subject.
• In order to be able to take the exam to IMPROVE the MARK, the student must have passed the theory, the problem and the practices, and will take an exam of the whole theory. Students must renounce in writing (e-mail) the mark obtained through partials, notifying the professor responsible for the subject at least three days in advance of the recovery exam. The mark that will be taken into account will be that obtained in the last exam taken.