Assessments Office

The Learning and Teaching Manager is Lynne Ward, supported by Co-ordinator Christopher Bennett, Team Leader Sally Wilkinson, Team Leader Christine Clarke and Administrative Assistant Angela Wood.

To contact the office, please email exams@uea.ac.uk or call on 01603 593616.

The Assessments Office is responsible for University examinations taken by Postgraduate Taught and Undergraduate students of the University.  The office's main responsibilities include the following:

• production and publication of the examination timetable;
• the recruitment and training of invigilators;
• preparation of examination rooms;
• security of examination papers and scripts;
• dealing with individual arrangements for examinations;
• dealing with 'Good Cause' applications for absence from examinations;
• dealing with misconduct in examinations;
• production of pass lists.

Exam Dates and Deadlines 2012-13

Good Cause Application Form

Acceptable Evidence for Extenuating Circumstances (including Good Cause)

Leave of Absence Granted by Heads of School and Good Cause

Guide to How We Schedule Exams

Guidance to Students on Conduct in Exams and Course Tests

 

Marking Criteria and Descriptors

Schools publish marking criteria in Handbooks or via other material, at both undergraduate and taught postgraduate level.  Students and staff are advised to contact their Learning and Teaching Services Hub for further information and guidance.

The University has developed a template - Undergraduate Marking Descriptors, which may be of assistance to Schools in designing or reviewing their own marking schemes.  Course teams may also wish to consider whether Assessment Specifications would be helpful in communicating intended outcomes to students.

In addition, the University has developed specific SpLD Marking Guidelines for marks of both undergraudate and taught postgraduate examinations and course tests where a sticker has been used to flag that the student has a Specifice Learning Difficulty.  Further guidance can be obtained from the Dean of Student's Office.