Guidance on taking the ERHRM examination online
Time of the online examination
The examination paper will be published at 10am on Thursday the 26th of March. You will then have 48 hours to complete the examination paper electronically and upload your answers in Moodle via a Turnitin submission box.
Support before and during the examination
I am available via email to answer your questions on the assessment between now and the start of the exam. Please contact me via email at j.kelly@bbk.ac.uk
Where I think a question is relevant for the whole cohort, I will post question and answer via Announcements in Moodle.
I will be available for questions via email at the start of the examination for the first 60 minutes, and, where appropriate answer questions via email or via updates in Moodle.[unique_solution]
Instructions for completion of the examination
The examination paper is the paper originally produced for the face-to-face examination. You need to answer 2 out of 5 questions on that paper.
The overall word limit is 2,000 words. These should be spread more or less equally across the2 answers.
Please upload your answers in a single word file by the deadline (48 hours after the start of the examination, i.e. Sat 28 March 10.00 am). The deadline is strict and you cannot submit late.
Guidance on taking open-book, online examinations
- Work in an uninterrupted environment. Try to tackle each question in one go.
- Choose your question carefully, as you’ll have more time to think about which ones are best to tackle.
- Spent the same amount of time on each question.
- Use the same logic as for onsite exams. Spend time refining your interpretation of the essay question and make yourself a plan first.
- The exam is open book. This means that you can refer to books, academic references and other sources. Therefore, we expect a good deal more references as a baseline than in unseen exams where you could do very well with no or a select number of very pertinent references. No typed reference list is required, but intext references are important.
- Structure your argument. Begin with a short introduction to your answer, followed by a main body with critique and synthesis, then a concluding section which draws together your thinking.
- Use examples to show your understanding of concepts and theories.
- Double-check the logic of your argument and spend time refining your writing before you hit ‘submit’. Do the bulk of the work the first day, as you have 48 hours, then at some point in the next day have a read through and carry out any editing. This is how writers edit their work. It’s harder to edit anything straight after it’s been written.
- Use the word limit, but don’t go over – same rules apply as usual. We will apply penalties where students go over the word limit.
- Submit on time. If you cannot submit on time you need to let the Department know in advance. You can opt to defer your examination. You need to inform your programme director and programme administrator at the latest by the start of the examination (10am on the 26th of March). You would then take the assessment in the resit week starting 13th of July.
- Log any coronavirus related difficulties via ASK so that the college can keep a log on the number of affected students
- This is not an opportunity to collaborate. Present your own, original work. Remember Moodle is linked to Turnitin. Each submission will be checked for plagiarism, and penalties applied as for any other piece of coursework.