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1. Introduction
2 Assignments
3 Examined work
4 Course results
4.1 Assessment strategies
4.2 Determining results
4.3 Examination and Assessment Boards
4.4 Your result
4.5 Result grades
4.6 Getting your result
4.7 Resits and resubmissions
4.8 Viva voce examinations
4.9 Queries
4.10 Formal appeals
4.11 Aegrotat credit
5 Professional programmes
Examination periods
Appendix 1 Plagiarism
Appendix 2 Submitting assignments online
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Assessment Handbook Undergraduate Courses

4.1 Assessment strategies

Open University courses usually have two assessment components - continuous assessment, discussed in Section 2, ‘Assignments’, and an examinable component, explained in Section 3, ‘Examined work’. These two components make up your overall result.