2011 Exam

[Peter]

Hi Peter

Could you please give a brief on passing criteria? Do we have to attain minimum passing marks in all 3 attempted questions or two questions written adequately are enough to fetch passing marks? What are the passing marks for different modules? For getting a Credit or distinction how much is the cutoff in different modules? Or is it same for all the modules, or does it change every year?

Looking forward to hearing from you.

Ved

Certainly in past years, the examiners have made it clear that is it the total of marks for the module as a whole. This does mean, in theory that you could nswer two questions very well and omit one and still pass.

The exam committee will never discuss the cut off point for Pass / Credit / distinction. I have hear the comment that a distinction requires "three good answers", so in common with other organisations scorings, you could infer from that you would be looking for 75% or above for a distinction. This would make it impossible to get a distinction on only two questions which fits with the ethos of the exam requring depth and breadth - you cannot expect the top marks if you are only very clever in a range so limited that you can only answer two questions out of the selection given.

I think the boundaries are generally consistenet across the modules.

Sorry I cannot be more definite, but the information is not in the public domain.