It's important to understand the assessments process at the University, from finding out the times and locations of your assessments, through to accessing your results.
Find out when and where your assessments will take place, and how long it will take for you to receive your results.
Find out more about how your work will be marked and what to expect if you need to resit any of your assessments.
Make sure you’re familiar with the important information about your assessments so that you can do your best on the day and avoid any problems.
For examinations that take place on campus make sure you’re familiar with all the important information so that you can do your best on the day and avoid any problems.
Online assessments can be carried out using different digital education systems available at the University.
Make sure you’re familiar with all the important information about your assessment so that you can do your best on the day and avoid any problems.
Questions relating to assessment are frequently received, below are the answers to some of these.
If you're disabled or become ill at the time of your assessments, then special assessment access arrangements may be made for you.
We have an archive of past examination papers from your course that you can look at to give you an idea of what to expect from your examination or assessment. These can be useful revision aids.
You can use the appeals procedure if you want to challenge your degree classification or any other mark which has been finalised.
Our classification calculator is a downloadable Excel spreadsheet which you can use to estimate your final degree classification.
Mitigating circumstances are normally exceptional, short term, unforeseen and unpreventable events that may have a significantly disruptive effect on your ability to take assessments.
Mitigating circumstances are any personal issues that you feel affect your academic work. These issues could include illness, bereavement, family crisis or pregnancy.
Items left in examination venues will be taken to the examination sub-offices by invigilators after each examination. Find out where you can locate and collect your lost property.
If you're unable to attend assessments on Sabbaths, holy days or religious festivals, find out how to notify the Assessment & Progress Team and what arrangements can be put in place.
Sometimes Minerva won’t be available, for example if we are carrying out maintenance work on the system. You can find out about any scheduled service interruptions on the Minerva blog.
When you're approaching the end of your research degree, there are a few administrative steps you'll need to take to initiate the submission and examination process.
If you're disabled, ill, taking assessments abroad or unable to take an assessment due to religious observance, then special arrangements may be made for you. Find out what kind of adjustments can be made in order to enable you to sit your assessments, and how to notify us if you need to have special arrangements put in place.
This page describes the University’s approach to classification. Details of the procedure for classification are published in full in the Rules for Award PDF.
The University gives general information relating to assessment of students in its code of practice on assessment. Academic schools provide more specific local guidance in their own school code of practice.
If you live outside the UK or are studying abroad as part of your programme it may be possible for you to sit your on campus examinations and/or resits overseas.
It might feel like there’s such a lot to know about assessment that it’s difficult to know where to start. We’ve put together a helpful list of links where you can quickly get the answers to your questions and help you feel in control.
There are different types of assessments that may be used to assess and examine modules.
How are classifications being calculated in 2023?