The assessed coursework includes 6% of weekly tutorial assignments and 6% of class participation. During the session, every student is required to prepare thoroughly the pre-set tutorial questions and actively participate in the tutorial classes.

Submission

During the session, three of your weekly tutorial assignments will be collected for the purpose of assessing your ongoing effort in the unit. Advance notice will NOT be given that a particular tutorial assignment is to be collected. You should note that it is only possible for you to submit your tutorial assignment in the tutorial in which you are enrolled and to which the tutorial assignment relates. The tutorial assignment must be submitted by you and not by an agent. If you do not attend a tutorial and that week’s tutorial assignment is collected, the marks for that tutorial assignment will be forfeited.

For each of these three tutorial assignments, 2 marks will be awarded for a satisfactory attempt.  To receive 2 marks, the student must have made a genuine attempt to provide a comprehensive answer to majority of the questions in that tutorial assignment. Where the student has made a moderate attempt of the tutorial questions, 1 mark will be awarded. 0 marks will be awarded for a non-satisfactory attempt or a non-submission.

For class participation in each applicable week's tutorial class, 2 marks will be awarded for a satisfactory class participation by showing engagement throughout the class, voluntarily answering tutor's or other students' questions, commenting on other students' contributions and asking questions beyond the pre-set tutorial questions. 1 mark will be awarded for a moderate attempt in class participation by responding to the pre-set tutorial questions. 0 marks will be awarded for non-participation. The best three class participation marks wil be recorded.  

You should note that tutors will not be marking the tutorial assignment answers for correctness. It is your responsibility to correct your tutorial assignment during the tutorial. Handwritten tutorial assignment will be accepted for marking as long as it has been prepared before the tutorial class.

Extensions

Not applicable. The only exception will be where you were prevented from attending the tutorial through illness or misadventure and at the next tutorial you present to your tutor adequate documentation (such as a medical certificate, or copy of the police report where you were involved in a motor vehicle accident) indicating that you were medically unfit or otherwise unable to attend the missed tutorial. Where you do this, your tutor will do another random collection of tutorial assignment for grading. Where at your next tutorial you fail to present such documentary evidence you will forfeit the marks allocated to the tutorial assignment.

Submissions

In-class tests will be distributed in tutorial classes in Week 6 and 11 for the purpose of assessing your ongoing effort in the unit. Each test is worth 4%. Questions in both tests are closed book, and answered under examination conditions and of examination standard. You will receive feedback from your tutor in the following weeks. Further details about the tests will be announced in due course on the unit iLearn website.

Extensions

No applicable. You must sit for the test in your assigned tutorial and there is no supplementary test if you are absent. If you miss an in-class test you must comply with the University's policy on special consideration to be granted a special consideration. If your application for special consideration is approved, the weighting on the in-class test will be added to the weighting on the final examination.

The group assignment includes 5% of group presentation and 15% of group report. You will be advised of the content, format and assessment criteria later in the session. The requirements of the group assignment will be made available on the unit iLearn website and an announcement will be made during the lectures.

Submission

The assignment is due by 4pm Tuesday 2 June 2014. Please submit the hardcopy of your assignment to BESS, Ground Floor, E4B and the softcopy of your assignment to Turnitin on the unit iLearn.

Assignments will be checked for plagiarism or “copying” (within tutorials and across tutorials) and guilty parties (being the person/s who copied and the person/s who allowed the copying) will be subject to a detailed investigation by the Faculty. Feedback will be provided for both group assignment presentation and report.

Extensions

No extensions will be granted. 

Penalties

A deduction of 25% on the total assignment mark will be imposed each day for late submission. This penalty does not apply for cases in which an application for special consideration is made and approved. Students who have not submitted the group assignment will be awarded a mark of 0.

A final examination is designed to assess a student’s body of knowledge and critical thinking skills. A final examination is included as an assessment task for this unit to provide assurance that:

i) the product belongs to the student and

ii) the student has attained the knowledge and skills tested in the exam.

There will be one paper, of 3 hours duration, to be sat during the end of session examination period. The paper will contain both calculative and theory questions, based on the learning objectives of the unit. More details will be announced in due course in the final lecture in Week 12.

The Session 1 examination period in 2014 is from 16 June to 4 July.

You are expected to present yourself for examination at the time and place designated in the University Examination Timetable. The timetable will be available in Draft form approximately eight weeks before the commencement of the examinations and in Final form approximately four weeks before the commencement of the examinations. http://www.timetables.mq.edu.au/exam

The Macquarie University examination policy details the principles and conduct of examinations at the University. The policy is available at: http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/examination/policy.htm

The only exception to not sitting an examination at the designated time is because of documented illness or unavoidable disruption. In these circumstances you may wish to consider applying for Special Consideration. The University’s policy on special consideration process is available at http://www.mq.edu.au/policy/docs/special_consideration/policy.html

Supplementary exam information is available at

http://www.businessandeconomics.mq.edu.au/current_students/undergraduate/how_do_i/special_consideration

If a Supplementary Examination is granted as a result of the Special Consideration process the examination will be scheduled as per the Supplementary Examination timetable of the Faculty. Please note that the supplementary examination will be of the similar format as the final examination.

Examination conditions

• Closed book
• Non-programmable calculators with no text-retrieval capacity permitted
• No dictionaries permitted
• Three hours plus 10 minutes reading time

Time Commitment

Your commitment to this unit should entail approximately 135 hours. An estimate of the amount of time each task should take is shown in the following table: