Assessment & Feedback

Information about the course assessments can be found on the course syllabus page.

Feedback on your understanding of this unit

You will get feedback on your understanding in this course from

  1. the Week 6 coursework test,
  2. during the support classes,
  3. during the Kahoot! and Quizizz quizzes in the support classes
  4. during my office hour (Tuesdays 4pm-5pm), and
  5. via the generic feedback (and exam script viewing) on the final exam.

This feedback will allow you to gauge your understanding of the material during the course, understand the mark that you got in the assessment, understand how you could do better in the future.

You can see feedback on last year's exam in the link within this section.

Course Work Test

The coursework for this course will be a test taking place in Week 6. The test is worth 20% of your final mark. The course work feedback will be made available afterwards.

The coursework test for 2019/20 is here and the solutions (with feedback) is here.

Past Exams and Feedback

Below are the past papers for the last 3 years.

From this year, the rubric of the exam will remain as in 2018/19 as being 'answer three from four'.

How to fail the course (a partial list of common misunderstandings

You can find a description of common mistakes and misunderstandings that students in previous years have made here

Examination & Course Unit Feedback

Reading the feedback about past examinations and the teaching on this course unit is important for your studies. For example, it can give you an insight into common mistakes made by past students in examinations. To help you, we have gathered links to useful feedback into this single handy page and this is linked to on the Blackboard site for this course unit.