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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 t
by 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 agoI 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 agoI'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 agoYes but you generally treat your degree as being graded by whatever you got in part II
- ianopolous 10y agoIn Oxford, at least for Physics, your grades from every year (except possibly the first) count, but they are heavily weighted towards later years.