Assessment

Continous Assessment Activities

Title	Weighting	Hours	ECTS	Learning Outcomes
3 oral presentations (one technical, one non-technical and one group presentation)	45%	15	0.6	1
4 error correction exercises based on the Guided Error Correction Books, Level B2 + C1- book1	30%	4	0.16	1
Class participation and homework	10%	3	0.12	1
Final exam	15%	3	0.12	1

Assessment

Students' performance in this subject will be assessed by continuous assessment and class attendance is obligatory.

The final mark for the subject will be calculated according to the information in the section called ‘assessment activities.’

Single assessment is not contemplated for this subject.

The exam dates, the dates of delivery of any activities, the retake dates of any exam, as well as the exam revision dates will be established in class and will be published on the ‘campus virtual,’ but may be subject to changes in programming if necessary.

In this subject of Professional English II, emphasis will be given to oral expression. Students will have to give three oral presentations. There will be an end-of-term exam and students will have to deliver homework regularly. Class participation and contribution to debates will also be assessed and highly valued. There will also be four tests on grammar (error correction tests). The objective is that all of these activities will help students to be able to express themselves in a clear, correct and organized way.

The minimum mark to pass this subject is a 5. The retake will only be possible if students obtained a minimum mark of a 3.5 or above. The maximum mark given to a retake exam will be a 5.

If a student misses 10% of classes and does not deliver any of the compulsory papers throughout the course, his/her mark will be ‘not assessable’ (NA). Only on exceptional occasions (justifying the reasons of absence or lack of fulfilment of deadlines) will a student be able to retake any activity after the specified assessment dates.

Students with an average mark of 9 or above will be the only ones eligible for a special distinction (outstanding performance). Since the number of distinctions cannot be above 5% of the number of registrations per subject, they will only be given to students who obtained the highest marks.

Students who have enrolled in the subject for the second time, will have to do all the activities required in the course.

 

 

These irregularities include, among others:

- The total or partial copy of any assessment activity

- Allowing others to copy

- Presenting a group work activity not entirely done by the members of the group (this is applicable to all the participants, not only to those who have not done their work)

- Presenting material as genuine, when done by a third party. This includes translations, adaptations and any work that has not been carried out entirely by the student;

- Having access to communication devices (such as mobile phones, smart watches, pens with cameras, etc.) during theoretical and/or practical assessment activities (exams);

- Speaking to classmates during theoretical and/or practical assessment activities (exams);

- Copying or trying to do so during any theoretical and/or practical assessment activities (exams);

- Using (or trying to use) written documentation related to the subject during any assessment activity, without explicit permission to do so.

 

If a student has incurred any of the above-mentioned irregularities, the numeric mark of his/her academic record will be the lowest valuebetween 3.0 and halfof the average weight of his/her marks (thus, passing the subject by compensation will not be possible). In future editions of this subject, students who have committed irregularities in an assessment activity will not be allowed to validate any of the assessment activities he/she’s taken part in.

To sum up: copying, allowing to do so, plagiarising (or trying to do so) in any of the assessment activities is equivalent to a FAIL, which is not compensable. The subject will, therefore, not be validated in future courses.