This is a short answer test, to be completed online using Powerpoint software. You will demonstrate your written communication and software skills, as well as your grasp of the basic models, based on material from certain specified Modules of which you will be notified well in advance.  Your Powerpoiint file will be returned electronically with comments.  You will have a three hour window to complete and submit the Test.  Part of the purpose of the exercise is to give you some practice in the methods we will use for completion of the Final Exam..

In addition, we will use this test is to take a snap shot of your current skill set, so as to allow any gaps in those skills to be addressed in plenty of time for successful remedy.  As with the other in-semester assessments, this purpose is more important than the mere accumulation of marks.  The test will use the basic models presented in the first few Modules to take stock of your written communication and mathematical skills.  Any difficulties likely to hamper your progress will be identified in plenty of time for action to be taken.

Unlike the Assignments, all students will undertake the Practice Test within the same twenty four hour window (you will have three hours to complete the exercise once you access the Test).  If you are unable to sit the Test at this time, due to illness or other misadventure, you may apply for a Supplementary Test or other remedy under the Disruption to Studies procedures set out on the University website.  Consult the Policies and Procedures section of this Unit Guide for further information on these Disruption to Studies policies.  If a Supplementary Test is granted, then this will be held within one week (7 days) from notification that your application has been successful, with the same conditions (twenty four hour window and three hour completion time).

These will be available online with the opening of each corresponding Module. In total the four Assignments contribute 50 marks to your final grade, but again, as with the Class Test these Assignments are designed primarily to help you with learning the models and prepare you for the Final Exam. You will submit a Powerpoint file by iLearn, and this will be returned with comments.

Again, these assignments are designed primarily as tools of learning.  You will use Powerpoint software to recreate the models presented in the Lecture Videos.  The animation facility in Powerpoint allows you to use the models for economic analysis.  You will show shifts of the curves and changes in equilibrium in the correct sequence, explained by textboxes, much as in the Lecture Videos (which will serve as a template for these exercises).  This is the best way of mastering the models which are the key to success in the Unit.  Collectively the Assignments make the largest contribution of marks to your final grade, though as always the teaching and learning purpose is primary.

As an online unit there will be room for you to set your own pace in terms of submission dates.  We will give you a recommended timetable for submission of the Assignments, but you will be free to venture outside it depending on your rate of progress.  We will require however that you only submit an Assignment after you have had any previously submitted Assignment returned to you with comments, so that you can incorporate the comments on the last Assignment in preparing the next.  Furthermore that all Assignments are to have been submitted by June 16th at 11pm.  These requirements will impose a timetable that you should keep in mind as you move through the in-Session work.

The Final Examination will include long answer questions, both diagram and essay based, and some calculations, for all of which you will have received plenty of practice in the Practice Test and Assignments.  Details regarding the structure of the Final Exam will be given online.  The exam itself will be delivered and the script submitted online, with a time limit from opening of the exam to final submission of three hours, using the procedure already practiced in the In-Session Test.

As with the Practice Test, all students will undertake the Final Exam within the same twenty four hour window (you will have three hours to complete the exercise once you access the Test).  If you are unable to sit the Final Examination at this time, due to illness or other misadventure, you may apply for a Supplementary Examination under the Disruption to Studies procedures set out on the University website.  Consult the Policies and Procedures section of this Unit Guide for further information on these Disruption to Studies policies.  If a Supplementary Examination is granted, then this will be scheduled after the conclusion of the official University examination period, with the same conditions (twenty four hour window and three hour completion time).  Note that it is University policy not to set early examinations for individuals or groups of students.   All students should ensure that they are available until the end of the teaching Session, in other words the final day of the official examination period.