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> The primary assessment for this course will be a take-home assignment issued at the end of the term. This assignment will ask questions drawing on the concept

> The primary assessment for this course will be a take-home assignment issued at the end of the term. This assignment will ask questions drawing on the concepts and models discussed in the course, as well as from selected research publications. Comes as a surprise that it's not a project, as, in my experience, all ML/ DL courses I've seen online from US universities (Cal, Stanford, etc.) require. Different university culture across the pond?

NPDW 10y ago
Oxbridge is very much exam based assessment. With your degree depending only on the exams taken at the end of the final year. So the take-home assessments are there just to make sure that you understand what you're doing and can progress to the next part of the course.
- arethuza 10y ago
  I must say that I am rather glad the degree I did at a Scottish university was based mainly of 4th year exams, with an element of 3rd year exams and coursework. The idea of a averaging all of your work across your course would have been a disaster for me as I did rather poorly in year 1, scraped through year 2 and did spectacularly well in years 3 and 4.
  - tonyedgecombe 10y ago
    I'm not sure about Oxford but certainly for Cambridge you aren't graded overall, instead you get a grade for each part of the tripos[1] (two parts). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos
    - NPDW 10y ago
      Yes but you generally treat your degree as being graded by whatever you got in part II
    - ianopolous 10y ago
      In Oxford, at least for Physics, your grades from every year (except possibly the first) count, but they are heavily weighted towards later years.
signa11 10y ago
> Comes as a surprise that it's not a project, as, in my experience, all ML/ DL courses I've seen online from US universities (Cal, Stanford, etc.) require. Different university culture across the pond? from that same paragraph: | The pratical (sic) component of the course will be assessed in the usual way. have look at 'Lecture 2b - Overview of the Practicals.pdf' to be convincingly (imho) dissuaded of the fact that it was 'easy-peasy' :)

NPDW 10y ago

Oxbridge is very much exam based assessment. With your degree depending only on the exams taken at the end of the final year. So the take-home assessments are there just to make sure that you understand what you're doing and can progress to the next part of the course.

arethuza 10y ago
I must say that I am rather glad the degree I did at a Scottish university was based mainly of 4th year exams, with an element of 3rd year exams and coursework. The idea of a averaging all of your work across your course would have been a disaster for me as I did rather poorly in year 1, scraped through year 2 and did spectacularly well in years 3 and 4.
- tonyedgecombe 10y ago
  I'm not sure about Oxford but certainly for Cambridge you aren't graded overall, instead you get a grade for each part of the tripos[1] (two parts). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripos
  - NPDW 10y ago
    Yes but you generally treat your degree as being graded by whatever you got in part II
  - ianopolous 10y ago
    In Oxford, at least for Physics, your grades from every year (except possibly the first) count, but they are heavily weighted towards later years.

signa11 10y ago

> Comes as a surprise that it's not a project, as, in my experience, all ML/ DL courses I've seen online from US universities (Cal, Stanford, etc.) require. Different university culture across the pond? from that same paragraph: | The pratical (sic) component of the course will be assessed in the usual way. have look at 'Lecture 2b - Overview of the Practicals.pdf' to be convincingly (imho) dissuaded of the fact that it was 'easy-peasy' :)