Progress & Assessment
Your project supervisor will be monitoring the effort you are putting in on your project. Any student who does not appear to be making satisfactory progress on their project will be required to discuss the matter with the Director of Studies.
Credit
As you know we operate a credit accumulation scheme whereby your performance in all years of your course count towards your final degree classification. Your marks this year contribute 40% towards that final classification.
Assessed Modules
This year all lectured modules given by the Physics Department are assessed by formal examination. PX425 High Performance Computing in Physics is wholly assessed by coursework. The Physics Project is assessed on the basis of interim and final reports and the poster session.
Most of the courses given by outside departments are assessed by a combination of assessed components, e.g. essays, and examination.
Examinations
Examinations are held at two points during the year - week 30 (i.e. immediately after the Easter vacation) and in May/June (weeks 33-36).
This year each examination will assess one module. For 15 CATS modules the examination will be of 2 hours duration whilst 1.5 hour examinations will be used for 7.5 CATS modules. For 15 CATS physics modules, the examination paper will have four questions and you should attempt three of these. For 7.5 CATS physics modules you should attempt two questions chosen from three.
The 4th year papers set by the Physics Department are likely to be as follows:
- Week 30
- PX431 Structure and Dynamics of Solids
- PX445 Advanced Particle Physics
- Weeks 33 to 36
- PX408 Relativistic Quantum Mechanics
- PX416 High Energy Astrophysics
- PX420 Solar Magnetohydrodynamics
- PX430 Gauge Theories for Particle Physics
- PX432 Functional Properties of Solids
- PX435 Neutrino Physics
- PX436 General Relativity
- PX437 Exo-planets
- PX438 Physics of Fusion Power
- PX444 The Distant Universe
As part of the examination and quality assurance process the external examiner may wish to talk to some students (note: these are not oral examinations). You MUST be available during week 39 in case the examiner wishes to see you (so do not organise any holidays then).
The examination results will be available on Wednesday of the final week of Term 3.