Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

Semester examinations 1976
Examination time-tables
Approximately half-way through each semester a provisional time-table for examinations
to be held at the end of that semester will be posted on the notice board in the quadrangle.
Students should note their examination times and immediately report any clashes to the
examinations officer, Mr S. C. Reid, at 40 Wakefield Street.
The final examination time-table will be posted on the notice board in the quadrangle
1 approximately one month later.
It is the responsibility of students to ascertain dates and times of examinations. No
information will be given by telephone.
Conduct of examinations
1. Unless otherwise stated on the time-table, morning examinations will commence
at 8.50 a.m. and afternoon examinations will commence at.1.20 p.m.
2. Students are required to provide their own calculators, slide-rules and drawing
instruments.
3. Students will not be permitted to enter the room after half an hour has elapsed
from the commencement of examination, and will not be permitted to leave
until half an hour after commencement of examination.
4. Four-figure mathematical tables will be supplied where necessary.
Use of electronic calculators
Unless otherwise specified, electronic calculators may be used in examinations. To ensure
that owners of sophisticated calculators do not have an unfair advantage over their colleagues
who do not possess such machines, the following procedures have been adopted:
1. Students may use only battery operated electronic calculators;
2. No student will be permitted to borrow or to lend a calculator during an examina-
tion.
3. Room supervisors will mark calculator used on the examination scripts of students who
use electronic calculators during an examination. Examiners will take the calculator
use into account when marking scripts to ensure that students who have not used
calculators are not disadvantaged.
I Absence from examinations
Students who are absent from an examination due to illness or other reason and who
wish to apply for a special examination must apply through the student records office.
Such an application must be accompanied by evidence (e.g. medical certificate) that
there was a genuine inability to attend the examination.
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The application must be lodged at the student records office within 48 hours of the
examination.
Students who are absent from an examination through misreading the time-table are
not automatically entifled to a special examination. Students in this position should
contact the head of their awarding department.
Publication of results
Examination results will be displayed in the Ethel Swinburne Centre at dates and
times to be announced. Examination results will not be given over the telephone.
The following marking scheme will be used for all tertiary subjects:
HI, H2A Outstanding performance
H2B, H3, P1 Pass with varying degrees of distinction. Each category represents
approximately equal increments in standard.
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