Penalties

Knowing how to manage your time, write succinctly and provide a complete and comprehensive piece of work to a strict deadline are skills you will develop at university. In the interests of fairness, transparency and to be equitable we have strict rules around deadlines and the quality or quantity of work submitted, and have clear penalties where these rules are not followed.

Assessments that are submitted late, without an approved extension for exceptional circumstances affecting assessment, will have a percentage of the available marks deducted in accordance with the policy on penalties available on the University assessment policies and procedures web page.

After five days, the work is marked at zero. Note, however, that the penalty cannot result in a mark less than zero. 

• 1. 1. 1. Submitted up to 1 hour late - 5% deducted from mark

        2. Submitted 1 day late - 10% deducted from mark

        3. Submitted 2 days late - 20% deducted from mark

        4. Submitted 3 days late - 30% deducted from mark

        5. Submitted 4 days late - 40% deducted from mark

        6. Submitted 5 days late - work marked at zero

The penalty for submitting late for a module marked on a pass/fail basis is a fail.

Different penalties apply for online exams from other types of assessment. Online exam submissions received up to 30 minutes after the deadline will be accepted but 5% points will be deducted from the mark as a penalty. This penalty may be waived in the event of a successful exceptional circumstances claim. Submissions received more than 30 minutes after the deadline will be treated as non-submissions and will normally receive a mark of zero. In this case, a successful exceptional circumstances claim would result in a further assessment attempt ‘as if for the first time’.

Please be aware that marks visible through Turnitin Feedback Studio (on the VLE) are raw marks for the work itself. This raw score will not show any penalties that may be deducted and the mark provided is subject to the ratification process. Your final mark with all deductions/penalties applied can be accessed through your e:Vision ‘view module marks’ section. Marks on e:Vision remain subject to the ratification process prior to the Board of Examiners meeting and may occasionally be subject to change.