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Guidance Notes For Completing The MSC Project Interim Report

This document provides guidance for completing mark sheets for MSc project interim reports. It explains that markers should award category marks on a 0-100 scale with comments justifying each mark. Returning a mark below 40% means the student is at risk of transferring to a PG Diploma. It lists attributes to consider for each category and provides guidance on determining overall marks, resolving disagreements between markers, and the importance of comments for student feedback.

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Guidance Notes For Completing The MSC Project Interim Report

This document provides guidance for completing mark sheets for MSc project interim reports. It explains that markers should award category marks on a 0-100 scale with comments justifying each mark. Returning a mark below 40% means the student is at risk of transferring to a PG Diploma. It lists attributes to consider for each category and provides guidance on determining overall marks, resolving disagreements between markers, and the importance of comments for student feedback.

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Guidance Notes for Completing the MSc Project Interim Report (COM6920) Mark Sheets

Individual mark sheet


Category marks: The mark sheet lists a number of categories that should be awarded marks. For each category, the
marker should decide on a mark or range of marks on the 0 – 100 scale. If a range is used then it should not span more
than 5 percentage points (e.g. 60 – 65 is acceptable). Comments should be written in the left hand column to justify the
mark that has been awarded.
Note: returning a mark of less than 40% for a project means that the student is likely to be considered by the
exam board for transfer to a PG Diploma.
The `indicator' tick-boxes that used to appear on the sheet have been removed as they were considered too prescriptive
and insufficiently flexible. However, when considering the category marks you may find the following (non-
exhaustive) list of attributes helpful,

Student performance: industrious, independent, attends meetings.

Literature: addresses core literature critically and thoroughly; focused account of up-to-date research; evidence of
an understanding of key techniques.

Analysis: focused introduction and outline of project; in-depth analysis leading to clear requirements and detailed
discussion of potential problems.

Time plan: well-organised; realistic; well-justified; clearly presented.

Presentation: logical report structure; unambiguous and clear use of English (even if possibly not always 100%
grammatically correct!); correct use of referencing; good use of figures.

Amount of work completed: Does the report present evidence of a significant amount of work? e.g. The student
may have had to master software, programming languages, or concepts from outside the MSc syllabus; the analysis
may have required significant practical work; the literature review may present evidence of extensive reading and
research.

General comments: Use this space to write additional comments about the overall report quality. In particular,
consider the specific strengths and weaknesses of the work and justify the final mark that has been awarded –
especially if the mark is close to a pass/fail or pass/distinction borderline. In particular, marks of 50% should be given
clear justification.
Overall mark: Once marks have been determined for each category, the marker should decided on an overall mark on
the 0-100 scale. In doing this, this category marks should act as a guide, but there are no specific weightings defined
for the different categories, nor is it expected that any particular formula (such as taking the mean, median or mode)
should be employed. But the general comments section should provide some explanation of how the marker has
balanced poor performance under some headings with good performance under others.
Combined mark sheet
Final percentage mark: If the marks awarded by supervisor and 2 nd marker `agree' (i.e. they are within 10% and are
both the same side of the 50% pass/fail borderline) then they are simply averaged and the final percentage mark is
entered on the combined mark sheet.
Moderation: Disagreements (i.e., marks differing >10% or spanning a pass/fail borderline) have to be resolved by a
discussion between markers leading to one or both markers changing their overall mark. A summary of this discussion
and a recorded of the amended marks must be made in the 'Moderation' section of the form.
General comments: This is a space for any significant points (if any) that arise from the supervisor's and 2 nd marker's
discussion of the work.
Important

Please remember that it is expected that students will be allowed to see the individual mark sheets.

Please make good use of the comment boxes on the individual mark sheets, both as a way of justifying the
mark, and as an opportunity to provide the student with formative feedback.

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