Every trimester ends with an online exam on the material taught, which students can write from their workplace or home. The exams are not intended to be onerous, but the student must demonstrate an understanding of the overall programme’s outcomes and adequate preparation is essential.

The online exam is “open book”, and students may refer to their class notes, presentations, and the textbook, the ‘Role of the Consulting Engineer during Project Delivery’ and any prepared study notes, while writing.

The requirements for entrance to the exam are as follows:

• The student must have attended all the online classes, except where the student has been granted leave of absence.
• The student’s Portfolio of Evidence on the CESAnet must be completed.
• All Activity Worksheets completed, submitted, and marked as such by the Convenor or Facilitators.
• All Assignment submitted, including all resubmissions, and the student must meet the assessment criteria for every assignment.

For a student to pass a module, they must obtain a combined score of 60% or higher, comprising 40% of the assignment marks and 60% of the exam marks.

Students who do not achieve a combined score of 60% for a module will be required to write a supplementary exam for that module. The pass mark for the supplementary exam is 65% which is calculated as 40% of the total module assignment score and 60% of the supplementary exam score.

There will be no exam for the Interpersonal Skills module and the final score for this module will be calculated on the average of all the assignment scores.  This score must be 60% or above for the student to successfully pass the module.

A report will be sent at the end of each trimester, after the exams have been assessed and moderated, to each Student, their Workplace Mentor, and their HR representative, detailing the outcome of the Student’s exams along with a brief report on the Student’s overall progress during the trimester.