Assessment overview

Assessment of your project work is based on the following elements with approximate weightings:

The final assessment for the project will be a class (I, II.1, II.2, III), with no detailed mark breakdown.

It is important to maintain a steady work-rate throughout the year. Progress and industry marks are allocated on the basis of four half-termly meetings in Michaelmas and Lent. The half-termly assessments will typically be made during a normal project meeting.  Feedback will be provided via e-mail, within 48 hours.  It is your responsibility to ensure that the progress review meetings are arranged by the associated deadlines, giving your supervisor at least a week’s notice.  If you have good cause for postponing a meeting beyond its deadline (e.g. due to illness), you must request an extension from the Teaching Office using the extension process.

If you are working in collaboration with another student or as part of a team, you must nevertheless write your own reports. If there are results obtained jointly, it is acceptable for you to present copies of graphs and tables produced in collaboration, suitably referenced. The text of the reports must be your own. In summary, the golden rule is that “the Examiners must be in no doubt as to which parts of your work are your own original work and which are the rightful property of someone else”.

Your logbook (or electronic equivalent) is not assessed as a separate item, but you must submit it together with the two copies of your final report. It will be taken into account when a grade is allocated for the report by the assessor.  Your technical abstract is to be submitted with your final report and this will be archived for reference by future staff and students.

Submission dates

1. 4pm on Thursday of week one in the Lent term for the technical milestone report;
2. 4pm on Monday of week five in the Easter term for the technical abstract, final project report and logbook (or electronic equivalent).