Return of Marks and Feedback

Exams

For degree examinations that are held during the University scheduled end-of-semester and summer-assessment diets, return of marks and feedback will be after the meeting of the relevant Board of Examiners and before the University deadline for the return and publishing of marks on the student record.

Dates of Board of Examiners are published on the BMTO student website. 

Dates of Board of Examiners 

Often this seems like a long delay between completing the assessment and receiving a mark and feedback. This process involves a number of steps:

• the assessment needs to be marked.
• where appropriate, marks are then moderated before being reviewed by course assessment groups.
• student work and marks are then reviewed by one or more External Examiners and marks are submitted to our professional services teams to generate anonymous course reports of marks for the Board of Examiners.
• Special Circumstances (SC) Committees need to review SC applications relevant to the assessments and provide recommended outcomes for the Board of Examiners to consider applying in mitigation for SC. 
• course board reports are then reviewed by a pre-Board of Examiners prior to being presented for ratification by the full Board.

This process ensures that published assessment outcomes are fair, equitable and robust.

In Course Assessments (ICAs)

Dates for the return of provisional marks and feedback will be published in course documentation and will normally be within 3 weeks of the submission deadline.

In some cases the feedback return date may be later, for example, if different groups of students have different submission deadlines for the same assignment. In such cases course documentation will still inform you of the date to expect provisional marks and feedback.

Please be aware that the marking for all assessments is moderated to ensure consistency and marks and this affects the marking timeline. Marks released remain provisional until they are ratified in by the Board of Examiners meeting after the course finishes. Occasionally, this may result in changes to the provisional marks.