Assessment
Your tutorial assignments are listed in this handbook and on the BIOL10000 Blackboard site. These will be marked by your Academic Tutor and returned to you with feedback. Your overall tutorial mark will be based on marked assignments given over the course of the academic year and therefore, if you deliberately or accidentally skip an assignment, your mark will be brought down. In order to pass the whole Tutorial Unit, three separate elements are required:
- You have to obtain a mark of at least 40% in your tutorial assignments, averaged over the two semesters.
- You must have satisfactory attendance at tutorials and the associated plenary sessions.
- You must pass the Writing and Referencing Skills unit (BIOL10741).
Tutorials are an important part of the attendance requirements for your degree course and compensation for partial failure of unit examinations is available only to students who have passed their tutorial unit. In addition, students who fail their tutorial unit due to poor marks or absences are required to complete an extended essay during the summer vacation.