Historical Studies Policy Section 6.8.3 - Verification procedures
University regulation requires that 'No candidate may be failed in a subject except on the recommendation of at least two examiners'.
The rights of students to have assessed work re-marked shall be determined at a faculty and department level, with reference to the work and time involved for staff. However, each faculty must have a process (reported to, and approved by, Academic Board) for verifying fail marks which contribute to a final fail result. The academic board shall ensure that these procedures are reasonably consistent across faculties. This requirement shall not apply to piece of worrk completed during the course of a subject, each of which is worth no more than 10 per cent of the final mark, unless the total of such pieces exceeds 30 per cent of the final mark. These pieces of work must be identified in advance of the first assessment in the subject. For subjects in which oral communication is assessed, and in which this assessment is worth more than 10% of the total mark:
- a process for verifying fail marks must be established.
- verification or re-marking of work may be provided for with the adoption of measures such as sound and/or video recording or independent examination of a repeat performance of the oral communication task.
- alternatively, initial assessment may involve more than one examiner.