In order to qualify as an intercalated year, you must complete some assessment.

Your Final Report

You need to submit a written report about your intercalated year activities. This report should include details of (a) the work pursued/completed during the year, and (b) how you have benefited from the experience. It should be approximately 1500 words long, plus appendices if needed, and submitted as a PDF document.

It is not necessary for you to provide a very detailed description of the work; particularly if the work was of a confidential or sensitive nature. However, you should provide sufficient information for the assessors to determine whether the work was relevant to your degree course. For example, the report should describe the area in which you worked, the tasks you had to complete, your responsibilities, the supervision/management arrangements, the level of support provided by the company, if you worked as an individual or as a member of a team, if you were able to apply the knowledge gained from the first two years of your course, if you attended any training course(s), any new technical skills you have learnt, etc.
How did you personally benefit from the intercalated year? For example, the report should describe if you learnt any new key/personal skills, if the experience was helpful in determining the direction of your future career, if you would consider applying for a graduate level position with the company, if you would recommend an intercalated year to other students, if you participated in any extra-curricular activities (e.g. university student recruitment, company social events), if you enjoyed the year, etc.
The report is intended to be free format and open-ended. Intercalated year placements vary enormously and therefore it is difficult for us to be prescriptive about the content of the report. Some past students have included appendices such as a diary, departmental structure diagram, etc. Students on Study Abroad mayy wish to submit transcripts of marks achieved and significant outcomes from their studies (such as written reports). A video diary highlighting your outcomes will be very welcome. The choice is very much yours.

Submitting Your Report

Please use the page https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/sci/dcs/teaching/intercalated/submission to upload your Final Report and any other documents and files you may wish to include.

For the 2021/22 Academic Year, the final deadline for submitting your reports is Monday of Week 2 of the next academic year, which is the 10th of October 2022. However, we strongly urge you to submit your report much earlier, the 1st of September 2022, in order to allow us to complete the administration of your course transfer before you arrive back.

Assessment

These assessment components will be considered by two members of the academic staff, to determine whether you have spent the intercalated year in a manner which is profitable, and relevant to your degree subject. If you pass this assessment, you will be eligible for a degree 'with Intercalated Year'.

Note that, for the purposes of weighting the marks for your whole degree, the "weighting" for the intercalated year is 0, i.e. your overall degree mark used to calculate your degree classification will only use the marks awarded in the non-intercalated years. The assessment of the Intercalated Year does not contribute to the calculation of the final degree classification.