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Assessment

The assessment on this course will consist of:

1. An assessed assignment, worth 25% of the overall course mark.
2. A final exam (120 minutes), worth 75% of the overall course mark.

Please see the assignment page for details on the assignments. See below for details on the exam.

Feedback

Throughout the course, students will received feedback on their performance:

• Some lectures will feature short, non-assessed quizzes that students will solve during the lectures. The lecturer will provide summary feedback on these quizzes.
• Tutorials will be based on non-assessed exercises provided to the students ahead of the tutorials. Students are expected to attempt these exercises in preparation for the tutorials.
• The solutions to tutorial exercises will be discussed in the tutorials and both individual feedback and group feedback will be provided by the tutor.
• Sample solutions will be released for tutorial exercises.
• Tutorials include feed-forward sessions, in which students are able to ask questions about upcoming assignments.
• Assessed assignments will be returned to students within two weeks. Individual, written comments will be provided to each student by the marker.
• Sample solutions will be released for assessed assignments.

Exam Information

This course will be examined with a 120 min closed-book exam, no calculators allowed. The rubric of the exam will be as follows: Answer question 1 and one other question. Question 1 is compulsory.
The exam will take place in April/May. Once the exam dates are finalized, you can find the specific date here.

Have a look at the past exam papers for this course, bearing in mind that the syllabus has changed substantially in 2013/14.