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Assessment

Population and Social Change (SO326) 2011-12

 

Assessment

 

Class essay titles (non-assessed, formative essays)

Assessed essay titles

 

FORMS OF ASSESSMENT

 

Assessment: This can take three alternative forms:

(a) a three-hour examination, in which students answer three essay questions.

(b) a two-hour examination, in which students answer two essay questions, plus one 3,000 word assessed essay, to be submitted in Week 1 of Term 3 (Tuesday 24 April).

(c) two 3,000 word assessed essays, the first to be submitted in Week 10 of Term 2 (Tuesday 13 March) and the second in Week 1 of Term 3 (Tuesday 24 April).

(For a description of the consequences of exceeding the maximum word length of 3,000 words, see the Department’s Undergraduate Student Handbook.)

Assessment information relating to visiting students is available here.

 

SUBMISSION OF ASSESSED ESSAYS

 

Assessed essays should be submitted electronically, and then manually to the Sociology Undergraduate Secretary in the Sociology Reception Area, by 2pm on the specified date. Late submission where no formal extension has been granted (via the relevant form located within the Undergraduate Study section of the Department’s web pages) will incur a penalty of 5 marks per day deduction from the mark awarded.

Notes on the submission of assessed work 

 

PAST EXAMINATION PAPERS

 

Introductory notes

Note that any of the questions from a paper for Finalists might have appeared on a paper for Non-finalists, and vice versa, i.e. no distinction has been made between years of study in the questions set (beyond them not being the same questions!)

Up until (and inclusive of) the September 1999 paper there were two separate questions corresponding to mortality and fertility in less-developed countries; in the Summer 2001, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009 papers there was only one, as will be the case in the examination(s) later this academic year (reflecting the single week and single class essay devoted to this topic/pair of topics since the introduction of a ‘compulsory’ Departmental Reading Week in Term 2). Note also that the 2005 examination papers do not contain a question relating to the historical marriage (nuptiality) topic, since this was omitted from the syllabus in 2004/5 (as a consequence of Term 2 in that year having started on a Wednesday rather than a Monday).

The questions from all the papers listed below are a good indication (as are the class essay titles) of the types of examination question that will be set. Clearly, however, this year’s examination questions are unlikely to be identical to either the class essay titles or the corresponding examination questions from earlier papers.

 

1994 Summer examination paper

1995 Summer examination paper

1996 Summer examination paper (Non-finalists)

1996 Summer examination paper (Finalists)

1998 Summer examination paper (Non-finalists)

1998 Summer examination paper (Finalists)

1998 September examination paper (Non-finalists)

1999 Summer examination paper

1999 September examination paper

2001 Summer examination paper

2003 Summer examination paper (Non-finalists)

2003 Summer examination paper (Finalists)

2004 Summer examination paper (Non-finalists)

2004 Summer examination paper (Finalists)

2005 Summer examination paper (Non-finalists)

2005 Summer examination paper (Finalists)

Exam papers 2006/7, 2007/8, 2008/9 & 2010/11