Ordinances and Regulations Committee

 

Subject:    Regulation VII: Conduct of Examinations and Other Assessments

Origin:      Secretary

 

1.         At its meeting on 23 June 2004 Senate approved:

 

·         Amendments to Regulation VII (then titled Regulations for University Examinations)

·         A proposal from Learning and Teaching Committee for a list of approved calculators for use in examinations.

 

To ensure that reference to the latter was included in the revised version of Regulation VII for the start of the academic year 2004/05, the Vice-Chancellor has approved the following amendment to para 26 as an interim measure:

 

‘Calculators shall only be permitted where this is stated in the rubric to the question paper and shall be of an approved type.  Examination papers shall state whether calculators and/or information storing devices differing from the approved types shall be allowed, which shall further specify whether such calculators may be programmable. No calculator instruction manual will be allowed in an Examination Hall in any circumstance.  Candidates are responsible for the provision and performance of their own calculators.’

 

.2         The Committee is now asked to consider the following further refinement of para 26, to take effect from the Senate meeting on 26 November 2004:

 

‘Calculators shall only be permitted where this is stated in the rubric to the question paper and shall be of an approved  a type included on the list of calculators approved by the University and published by the Academic Registrar for this purpose.. Examination papers shall state whether calculators and/or information storing devices differing from the approved types shall be allowed. Calculators or other devices not appearing on that list will only be allowed when explicitly stated in the rubric to the question paper. No calculator instruction manual will be allowed in an Examination Hall in any circumstance.  Candidates are responsible for the provision and performance of their own calculators.’

 

This wording will be submitted to Learning and Teaching Committee and Senate in November, together with the Committee’s comments and the proposed list of approved calculators.

 

Author – Jennie Elliott

Date – October 2004

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Proposed ‘approved list’ of calculators

 

 

Note

 

In the consultation process, some departments have asked whether it will be permissible to state in the rubric to a question paper that ‘any calculator is permitted’.

 

The Committee is asked to clarify.