Assessment Handbook Undergraduate Modules

4.3 Examination and Assessment Boards

Each module has an Examination and Assessment Board that is responsible for the determination of module results. The Boards use their academic judgement to decide whether or not each student has reached the standard required to qualify for credit for the module.

Each Board comprises a chair (usually the chair of the module team), internal examiners (usually members of the module team) and at least one external examiner. External examiners are senior academics from outside the University, usually from another university or institute of higher education.

The Board will have each student’s:

individual assignment scores
overall continuous assessment score before and after substitution (explained in Section 2.9, ‘Substitution’)
overall examinable component score, with individual question scores and project scores
residential school attendance information, if the module has a school.

The Board will also have:

all the examination scripts (or other examined work)
information students have reported about special circumstances that affected their work
various statistical analyses
information about any special arrangements made for the examination.

Examination and Assessment Boards work within policy approved by Senate, which sets the upper and lower boundaries for each grade (see Section 4.5, ‘Result grades’). Boards have limited discretion to set the lower boundary for each grade of pass below that shown in the tables. This is entirely a matter for the Board, within the policy approved by Senate, and will remain confidential to it.