Examination and Evaluation - Deanship of Preparatory Year Guideline
PY English Continuous Assessment Rubric
Courses |
Continuous Assessment |
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Components (5 marks) |
Components (5 marks) |
Total |
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Reading |
Reading aloud |
*participation |
10 |
Writing |
Quiz (at least two quizzes) |
*participation |
10 |
Listening & Speaking |
Speaking-1 (see the rubric) |
Speaking-2 (see the rubric) |
10 |
Grammar |
Quiz (at least two quizzes) |
*participation |
10 |
General English |
Speaking (see the rubric) |
*participation |
10 |
T P Writing |
Report writing project (1) |
Report writing project (2) |
10 |
*Participation activities include:
(1) attendance record i.e. more than 60%,
(2) home assignments (at least two home assignments),
(3) classroom interaction,
(4) remedial classes/English club activities,
(5) classroom discipline
The Department offers six courses at two levels. They consist of 3 main evaluations:
- First Midterm (FMT)
- Second Midterm (SMT)
- Final Examination (FE)
The conduct of the exam is as follows:
- A proposed schedule of the testing process together with time and date is made available to the student council for observation and remarks.
- The student council discusses the schedule and presents suggestions (if any) to the programme.
- The approved schedule is then posted on the student notice board as an official announcement.
- A personal copy of the examination schedule is also made available to individual students.
- Students are also informed by their instructors about the examination process, with specific reference to the course taught, during the revision time.
Examination and post examination conduct is as follows:
- A general meeting of all instructors is held and a hard copy of all instructions for examiners and invigilators is presented, giving a clear outline of the entire testing and evaluating process.
- In addition, an email is forwarded to all instructors as a soft copy.
- Invigilators and examiners are also presented a copy of their duties for the examination period.
- All instructors are required to be present/ punctual to their scheduled duty.
The actual (practical) evaluation process is as follows:
- The invigilator monitors the conduct of the actual writing of the examination and upon completion, hands over the answer scripts to the exam committee.
- The exam committee distributes answer scripts among examiners for marking and rechecking according to the schedule.
- The answer scripts are marked by the examiners using a red pen and are handed over to the second examiner for rechecking.
- Thereafter, the answer scripts go through a filtering process. Here, a panel of examiners examines the marking pattern, the totaling of marks and the posting of the marks and makes the necessary changes (if any).
- Finally, the grades are entered onto the grade sheet and handed over to the exam committee.
The post examination process is as follows:
- The instructor re-examines the answer scripts of his own section and reviews it as a final stage of the examination procedure.
- The instructor discusses the answer scripts (midterms only) with the students in his respective office during office hours.
- The students are also given an opportunity to raise queries on the awarded grades.
- Finally, the marks are entered in a database (midterms) and posted on the university website for students to obtain them (final exam).