* For students in the Southern Hemisphere, please refer to assessment events by the month of the deadline for submission.

†This is the date by which students will receive provisional results. Ratified results will be confirmed in the week commencing 4 September 2023, by no later than 8 September 2023.

Unit completed by: This is the date by which you need to have your unit completed in order to be invited to a given assessment event. Remember, completion is defined as submitting all assignments to your tutor, and having received all tutor feedback reports.

Invitation to event by: If eligible for the given event, this is the latest date by which you would receive your invitation to submit for assessment.

Deadline for submission: This is the last day on which you will be able to submit your work for assessment. Please note that any work submitted outside the deadline for submission dates cannot be accepted.

Results sent by: You should expect to receive the assessment results from a given event by no later than this date. These will be sent to you by email to your OCA email address.

If you've been invited for assessment, but you have extenuating circumstances which mean that you will be unable to submit your work for assessment, you could apply to defer assessment to the following assessment event. See the Student Handbook for details on deferring assessment and how to apply.

If you fail to submit work for assessment when invited to do so, and have not been granted deferral of assessment, you will receive a fail for the unit and a mark of zero (0). You will then be offered a re-submission opportunity at the next assessment event. Full details on re-submissions can be found in the Academic Regulations.

Each assessment event has a submission deadline; this is the date by which you must have provided the coursework that you wish to be assessed. This is usually two to three weeks after you've been invited for assessment; see the Assessment Guidance for details.

From the Spring 2024 assessment event onwards:

If you submit work after the submission date but within six days the mark that you receive at assessment is reduced by 10% for each day late the work down to 40% for undergraduate, and 50% for postgraduate but no further. 

If work is submitted more than seven days past the submission deadline and/or does not include all the required assessment components, submission will be refused and you would receive a mark of 0 for that unit. See the Academic Regulations for details.

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