Your work will be marked and feedback provided by a member of academic staff.
Coursework in Levels 1 and 2 such as lab reports will generally submitted via Blackboard in the 19-20 academic year. Associated with the piece of work will be a rubric that the marker fills in. This provides feedback on your work following such categories as level of detail and structure. It is our aim to return feedback on coursework within two weeks.
Exams
Exam scripts are generally marked by the person who set the question (the "first marker"). Then it is looked over and "moderated" by a colleague (the "second marker"; generally another lecturer on the module). Both these people may annotate the script (first marker in red, second marker in green). If they do not agree on the mark awarded (about an individual script or about the range of marks for the question) then there is a discussion and the two markers reach a compromise.
Your exam marks will be available once they have been approved at the exam board at the end of each semester.
There are sessions organised by the Department where you may see your exam scripts from the previous exam period. However, be aware that the point of the annotations is to help the markers decide on a fair mark, NOT to provide the student with useful feedback. Therefore, it might not be as helpful as you hope.
Level 1 MCQ exams are not available for students to see because we draw the questions from a pool.
Projects and Literature Reviews
Level 3 projects are marked and moderated by a similar system to the exam scripts described above. Level 4 projects are marked by the two markers independently without seeing each others' grade.
It is unfortunately not possible to release marks or feedback on project work before the end of term, as for this very important piece of work there is an extra stage of moderation. Projects of all types are compared to each other, and any outlying marks are checked. Project marks are made available when the final module marks are released at the end of the academic year.