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- Teaching Arrangements Laboratory Classes
- Progression to Year 3 BSc Degrees
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- School Requirements for Year 2 Students
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14. I NFORMATION FOR S ECOND -Y EAR S TUDENTS Information on Modules You are required to take 120 credits at Level 5 in your second year. You are advised to recover any outstanding modules from previous years to ensure you have appropriate credit accumulation at the end of your programme. Compulsory and optional modules for your degree programme are listed in the Module Catalogue.
Practical sessions for modules PX2114 Practical Physics A and PX2214 Practical Physics B are run on Mondays and Thursdays, with laboratory times of 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. The first laboratory meeting is on the Monday in the first teaching week at 1.30 p.m. in the Year 2 Laboratory (Room N/2.28), at which you will be assigned a regular afternoon. Laboratories sessions for PX2338 Observational
times of 1.30 p.m. to 5.30 p.m. You will also be assigned to one of three three-hour computing laboratory sessions for PX2134 Structured Programming.
You will be assigned an Academic Tutor during the first full week of the academic year. Academic tutorials will be held in Tutors’ offices on a fortnightly basis in “odd-numbered” teaching weeks in the Autumn and Spring semesters. In your second year you will normally have the same Academic Tutor as you had in your first year and the School tries its best for you to retain the same Personal Tutor throughout your whole time as an undergraduate. Personal tutorials are held in Week 6 of the Autumn and Spring Semesters.
Year 2 “lecture” modules have associated continual assessment which contribute to the module mark. You will be informed by individual Module Organisers about any requirements to hand in work and the arrangements for returning marked work. Exercise solutions will be posted on Learning Central. Any deadlines set for submission are firm and late submission will be awarded zero marks. Progression to Year 3 BSc Degrees Progression from Year 2 to Year 3 requires you to have accumulated at least 220 credits, with a minimum of 100 credits at Level 5. This is why we encourage all students to retake any failed modules from Year 1, and we strongly advise that through work and effort you make every attempt to accumulate the full 240 credits as you move into Year 3.
The performance of students registered for MPhys programmes is monitored at the end of Years 1 and 2. Students on MPhys programmes are expected to attain a reasonable second-class Honours standard, i.e. an average mark of at least 55% in each year. A final decision about entry to the MPhys Page 42
Scheme is made at the end of Year 2, where failure to achieve 55% may result in candidates being required to transfer to an equivalent BSc programme. Further details are given in Appendix 1. Placement Degrees To progress to the Professional Placement, students on placement degree programmes must have a minimum year average of 50% and at have acquired at least 220 credits with at least 100 credits at Level 5. The placement is taken at the end of the second year of study. In order to progress to Level 6 (the third year of academic study), students must pass the placement year (module PX9001) and in doing so acquire a further 120 credits at Level 5. The placement year is assessed and the mark contributes to the calculation of the final degree mark.
Where required, summer resits are normally offered to students who have accumulated at least 180 credits. Students who fail to accumulate sufficient credits to progress at the end of Year 2 are normally allowed to resit failed modules in a repeat year; see Appendix 1 for the criteria for repeat years and also the time limits for completion of studies.
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You are required to attend the first lecture of all modules. Attendance at other lectures is monitored as is your submission of exercise work. •
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You must carry out all necessary practical work, and all work required by tutors. •
Failure to comply with these requirements or any clear indication of failure to engage may lead to a recommendation for exclusion from the University. Page 43
15. I NFORMATION FOR T HIRD -Y EAR S TUDENTS Information on Modules You are required to take 120 credits at Level 6 in your third year. You are advised to recover any outstanding failures from previous years to ensure you have appropriate credit accumulation at the end of your programme. Compulsory and optional modules for your degree programme are listed in the Module Catalogue.
Your project supervisor will act as your informal Academic Tutor. You must see your tutor during the first week of the Autumn Semester. To provide support in advanced topics, all modules include opportunities for discussion with the lecturer. In Year 3 you will normally have the same Personal Tutor as you had in your earlier years. Personal tutorials are held in Week 6 of the Autumn and Spring Semesters. Exercises Lecturers will hand out exercise sheets as appropriate. Solutions will be posted on Learning Central. Deadlines for the submission of exercises and project work are strict and late submission will result in the award of zero marks. Project Work A list of projects is circulated at the end of the second year from which you can select several projects in order of preference. It is good practice to discuss these choices with potential supervisors. Your project will normally be assigned before the end of Year 2. Any student not allocated a project at the start of the third year must contact the Project Module Organiser as soon as possible at the start of the semester. You must meet your supervisor on a regular, weekly basis. The supervisor is there to guide you through the organisation and management of your work and also to give you guidance about the writing of reports and about the nature of the oral examination and presentation. Full details of the project, your management of the work and the assessment of project work is given in the Year 3 Project Handbook:
Students on all degree programmes are expected to put in 80 hours of work on their project in the Autumn semester and 80 hours of work in the Spring semester (that’s about seven to eight hours per week). We schedule Monday mornings and afternoons and Thursday afternoons on the timetable for project work, but we should emphasise that these are simply guidelines. You may wish to or need to vary the times at which you work (the latter especially if you are sharing facilities in a research laboratory).
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