Examinations 2013
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Key sources of information about exams
University pages:
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SPA: Exams and Assessment including: your anonymous exam code, conduct of examinations, absence from examinations, Serious Adverse Circumstances forms, pass list publication dates and more. (Please note that all enquiries about anonymous codes, exam dates/rooms, pass lists and viewing your marks online should be addressed to SPA rather than to the Department.)
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Past exam papers in Physics (or go via the 'Library' tab in duo).
Departmental pages:
Information that we sent to you by email
Physics exam timetables and details of paper formats 2013
- Copies of the title pages of all the Physics exam papers are attached below. They show the division of the papers into sections and the rubrics giving the requirements for answering the questions. Please note that the structure and rubrics of the papers can change from one year to the next, so do not rely on the past papers for information about the structure or rubrics of this year's exams.(This year the most significant changes are to all the Level 3 modules, but there may have been other minor changes in other papers too.)
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Level 1 Physics exams 2013: title pages (3-page pdf file)
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Level 2 Physics exams 2013: title pages (6-page pdf file)
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Level 3 Physics exams 2013: title pages (11-page pdf file)
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Level 4 Physics exams 2013: title pages (9-page pdf file)
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- Provisional examination timetable for Physics modules, ordered by level then date. Please report any clashes to the SPA Office, as well as by email to Mr Skelton, Secretary to the Board of Examiners in Physics (adrian.skelton@durham.ac.uk). The definitive timetable is due to appear on Friday 1 March and must be carefully checked for any changes. Details of exam venues will be available at the start of Easter Term, via your personal exam timetable on duo.
- Final examination timetable for Physics modules, ordered by level then date. This must be carefully checked for any changes. For each exam you will be allocated a specific room and you must check this information, in advance, in your personal exam timetable, which will be available on duo from the start of Easter Term.
Interviews (vivas) for final-year students
Each Level 4 Project student will have an oral examination in late April or early May as a routine compulsory part of the module's summative assessment. In line with University policy, the Board of Examiners does not interview candidates as part of the process of degree classification in June. However, the external examiners may scrutinise individual candidates’ examination scripts and project work in order to assist the Board in its deliberations.
Frequently-asked questions
The FAQs below are extracted from the main FAQs page, http://www.dur.ac.uk/physics/students/faqs/.
Examinations, assessment and results
- Are the solutions to the past exam papers available anywhere online?
- Can I get access to my marked exam scripts to see where I went wrong?
- Can I get my previous years' marks?
- Does the Physics Department award any academic prizes to students?
- How is my final degree classification calculated?
- I have had to transfer to the Ordinary programme following my Level 1/2 exam results. Is it still possible for me to graduate with Honours?
- I know the module pass mark is 40% but do I need to get 40% in each individual assessment component or just get an overall average of 40% for the module?
- I submitted a Serious Adverse Circumstances Form but it seems to have had no effect. Why?
- If I fail any Level 2 modules and have to resit them, will this affect my ability to progress to Level 3 of the MPhys programme?
- If I'm allowed to pass a module by 'compensation' does my mark get increased to 40% or do I have to keep the original failing mark?
- Is there a dress code for the final-year vivas/seminars?
- It's June and I'm a Natural Scientist. Physics students have got their marks already. Can I get mine too, or do I have to wait for the NatSci pass lists to be published?
- My pass list has just been released; what does 'Class II Division 1' mean?
- What are the rules about failing modules, resits and progressing from one year to the next?
- What contribution do the various assessment components make to my final module mark?
- What is the graduation date for this year's finalists?
- When will the June pass/progression lists be published? And will I be able to see my own marks as soon as the lists appear?
- When will the resit exam timetable be published?
- Why do Level 3 students who undertook their project work in the Michaelmas Term not receive their feedback until after Easter?
- Will we be provided with a formula sheet in the exam?
