CAAH Mods 2011 - Balliol College - University of Oxford

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whatever reasons, including disabilities, face financial difficulties. Application should be made to your college. • The University's Committee on Student Hardship makes grants and loans for the relief of financial hardship in cases where this was unforeseeable at the time of admission. The Committee meets once a term, and the application forms, which are held in your college office, must be completed and handed in to the designated college officer, probably the Senior Tutor, by the deadline, usually in Fourth Week (First Week in Trinity Term). 4.22 Examinations Each year a board of examiners is drawn from the Faculty to examine Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Mods and Finals. The examiners are assisted by a number of assessors, also members of the Faculty, who spread the load and deal with some of the specialised subjects. It is chance whether any of your own tutors examines you. If that happens, the convention is that the tutor takes no part knowingly in deciding your result; but since scripts are anonymous, the convention is rarely operative. It is your personal responsibility to enter for University examinations, and if you enter, or change your options, after the due date, you must pay a late fee and gain the examiners' consent. Entry is through colleges. In the case of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History Mods you fill in the form towards the end of your first term. The forms are kept in college offices, which may advertise times for applying. The University deadlines are listed each year in Examination Regulations. The starting dates of examinations are announced each year in Examination Regulations and the University Diary; your tutors can confirm that these dates remain valid. The examiners issue a timetable a few weeks before each examination; it is posted in the Examination Schools, and probably also in your college lodge. About a month before the exam, the examiners send a memorandum to all candidates about the conduct of the examination. When planning your examination strategy, it is sensible to keep before your mind the nature of the examination method which the University uses (the conventional method in British higher education over the last two centuries). If the examiners allowed you to set the questions, you could prepare good answers in a few months; by setting the questions themselves, they ensure that a candidate cannot be adequately prepared without study over the whole course. They will therefore not be interested in answers which in any way are off the point, and they will severely penalise 'short weight' - too few properly written out answers. The examiners are looking for your own ideas and convictions. When you have selected a question, work out what it means and decide what you think is the answer to it. Then, putting pen to paper, state the answer and defend it; or, if you think there is no answer, explain why not. Abstain from background material. Do use examples to back up your arguments and suggestions, for without such evidence they become mere assertions. Don't write too much: many of those who run out of time have themselves to blame for being distracted into irrelevance. Good examinees emerge from the examination room with most of their knowledge undisplayed. At University examinations you must wear academic dress with 'sub-fusc' clothing. Academic dress is a gown, and a regulation cap or mortar board (must be mortar board for men). Subfusc clothing is: for women, a dark skirt or trousers, a white blouse, black tie, black tights or stockings and shoes, and, if desired, a dark coat; for men, a dark suit and socks, black shoes, a white bow tie, and plain white shirt and collar. There are special University regulations on the typing of illegible scripts (NB 'the cost of typing and invigilation shall not be a charge on university funds'), on the use of typewriters in examinations, on visually-impaired candidates, on candidates unable to take papers on certain 20
days for religious reasons and on the use (where permitted) of computers in examinations; see the Examination Regulations. If your native language is not English, you may request to use your own bilingual dictionary during examinations. The request must go to the Proctors through your college, usually your Senior Tutor. The exam results (both the overall classification and marks on individual papers) are posted on the OSS system. If you have any problems connected with University examinations which you want to take further, never approach the examiners directly: always communicate through your Senior Tutor. This applies to complaints too (although every student has a statutory right to consult the Proctors directly on any matter at any time in their Oxford career). The regulations for Classical Archaeology and Ancient History are set out in the Examination Regulations, and are reproduced at the end of this Handbook. 4.23 Past Papers Past papers are available from the Examination Schools at a small cost, and should also be in College libraries as well as in the Classics Lending Library. There are also old papers online at http://oxam.ox.ac.uk. 4.24 Marking Conventions The conventions for marking and for assigning classes will be circulated to you some time before the examination, in a 'Circular to Candidates'. Each Board of Examiners takes over the practice of its predecessors and normally follows it closely, but some adjustment or modification is bound to take place over the years, as a result of changes in examination structure or in the interest of greater fairness. 21
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