Assessment task 1 will reward marks for participation in your tutorial.   Attendance will be recorded in each tutorial. You are expected to be present at least for 8 tutorials out of the 12 tutorials to gain full 10% (1.25% each) participation marks.  Failure to attend at least 8 tutorials will negatively impact on your tutorial participation mark. 

 The tutorial questions and solutions will be published during the week following each class. Since we need to provide each enrolled student with a working computer, students are only permitted to attend the class in which they are registered. The tutorial exercises require a total of approximately 10 hours of work. 

If you miss more than 4 tutorials due to an unavoidable disruption/s,  you should apply for Special Consideration (see the Special Consideration  Policy below). If that application is approved the attendance requirement will be waived for that tutorial or missed tutorial will be covered by a supplementary assessment that could include an oral component. Please consult BESS for advice on the Special Consideration Policy. 

Students must bring their Macquarie University campus card to each tutorial and display it in the holder provided. Failure to display a campus card may result in a student being refused access to the tutorial.

Students will be given four homework exercises each worth 5% of the final grade (20% in total). It is intended that students will work on the homework exercises independently. Students who have clearly colluded will be awarded a mark of zero, will not be permitted to resubmit, and may be reported to the Faculty Disciplinary Committee for further action. The homework exercises are due at 5pm on the following dates: 21/12/2017, 12/1/2018, 17/1/2018 and 19/1/2018 and must be submitted via the iLearn system. The exercises must be submitted online prior to the due date and time. Each exercise may be submitted two times prior to the deadline and each attempt has a two hour time limit. Only the final submission will be marked. Each homework exercise will require approximately 2 hours of work. A few days after the submission of a homework exercise, students will be provided with their mark via the iLearn system.

Students who have not submitted the task prior to the deadline will be awarded a mark of 0 for the task. The only exception to this rule will be students who apply for and are granted, Special Consideration. A supplementary test in the form of online quiz or a paper based test will be made available to those students at a later date set by the unit convenor.  

The homework task will remain accessible to students for revision, but the results of any subsequent attempts will not be used in the calculation of the grade. 

Students who have clearly colluded will be awarded a mark of zero, will not be permitted to resubmit, and may be reported to the University Disciplinary Committee for further action.

The assignment is due 4 pm Monday, January 15th. The assignment assesses the understanding of the topics covered in lectures up to the submission deadline and is worth 20% of the final grade. Students must submit both a hard copy and an electronic copy of their assignment. The hard copy must be submitted to the Business and Economics Student Services (BESS, E4B106) and the electronic copy must be through iLearn. Instructions and information about the requirements of the assignment will be provided in class and on iLearn.

Students who have clearly colluded will be awarded a mark of zero, will not be permitted to resubmit, and will be reported to the University Disciplinary Committee for further action.  Late assignments will be accepted but will incur a penalty of 10% of the total available marks made from the total awarded mark for each 24 hour period late or part thereof (for example, 25 hours late in submission – 20% penalty). Students who do not submit an assignment will be awarded a mark of zero for that assessment.This penalty does not apply to cases in which an application for Special Consideration is made and approved.

There is one class test in ECON241. It will be conducted in lectures 4pm Wednesday, January 17th. The test is worth 50% of the final grade. The test will be of 80 minutes duration and will be conducted during the lectures. Since the purpose of the test is purely summative, students will not be provided with written feedback. Students must be available during the time of the lecture class to sit the class test. The only exception to this is if a student could not do the test because of documented illness or unavoidable disruption. In these circumstances, this student may wish to consult the University’s Special Consideration policy- 

https://staff.mq.edu.au/work/strategy-planning-and-governance/university-policies-and-procedures/policies/special-consideration

If a student satisfies the Special Consideration policy they will be required to complete a supplementary assessment task and this could take the form of an oral task or a supplementary test.