Most assessment tasks require assessors to exercise their academic and/or professional judgement. Staff will use assessment criteria and/or mark schemes to support this judgement, which will be provided to you. Assessment criteria set out the knowledge, understanding, and skills that you will need to demonstrate in different assessment tasks. All summative assessments are marked anonymously, except in tasks where this is not possible, e.g. presentations. Schools also use a range of processes to ensure marking is reliable, consistent, and accurate. Results are overseen by examining boards, which include external examiners to help monitor and judge standards.
You must ensure that you adhere to any specified word limits and that you submit assessments in advance of scheduled deadlines. Summative assessments that are submitted late, where there are no accepted extenuating circumstances, will be given a mark of zero.
It is important that you familiarise yourself with the School’s Assessment and Feedback Strategy which will provide you with information on how your work is marked and moderated.