Following the guidelines of the degree, we will offer to the students two possible assessment systems: continuous evaluation or final evaluation at the end of the semester.

Each student has to decide on one of these two options by the third week of the semester.

Continuous evaluation:

The continuous evaluation comprises a series of tasks that the student has to realise along the semester (60%), together with a long answer test (40%) that he/she performs at the end of the semester. These tasks include the resolution of several problems and/or exercises (8%), the completion of two short answer tests about the lab (27%), and the realisation of several projects (25%). In particular, there are two bulletins of exercises (which are given to the students during the sixth and the ninth week of the course). These exercises have to solved in groups and should be delivered to the professor during the ninth and twelfth weeks of the course, respectively. The two short answer tests about the lab are scheduled for weeks eight and sixteen of the course. Finally, the projects have to be presented on the twelfth, fourteenth and sixteenth weeks, respectively, of the course. All these tasks may not be retaken at another point in time. That is to say, if a student cannot fulfill them within the time stipulated by the professor, there is no possibility to fulfil them afterwards. Also, they are only valid for the present academic year.

Those students who decide to opt for a continuous evaluation will have to fulfill these conditions in order to pass the course: (a) perform at least 6 out of the 7 lab exercises; (b) obtain, at least, 10 points out of 25 in the projects; (c) obtain, at least, 16 points out of 40 in the long answer test; and (d) obtain a minimum of 50 points in total (i.e., taking all the activities into account). The final mark of those students who do not fulfill these minimum requirements will be calculated as follows. It will be the minimum between: (i) the total number of points obtained by the student in all the activities of the course, and (ii) 40 points. That is to say, the maximum mark obtainable for these students is 40 points.

The choice of a continuous evaluation necessarily implies that the student is counted as present at the final evaluation, independently of whether or not the student has performed the long answer test.

Evaluation at the end of the semester:

In addition to the system of continuous evaluation described above, the student can opt for a final examination only. This final evaluation covers all the contents of the subject. The professor may demand the student to deliver some additional tasks, which will be notified by the seventh week of the course. These tasks have to be delivered on the day of the final examination. To pass the course the student will have to obtain, at least, 50 points out of 100 in the final exam together with the additional tasks.

Evaluation in July:

Those students who opted for a continuous evaluation and fulfill the requirements of (a) and (b) above, will be able, if they so wish, to keep the mark obtained in the tasks performed during the continuous evaluation (60%). In such a case, they will only take a long answer test (40%). To pass the course, these students will have to obtain, at least, 16 points out of 40 in the long answer test, and obtain a minimum of 50 points in total.

Alternatively, these students can also opt for a final examination only, which covers all the contents of the course. In this case, the students will have to inform the professor one month prior to the final exam. Otherwise, it will be understood that the student opts for continuous evaluation.

The rest of students (i.e., those that opted for a system of continuous evaluation and do not fulfil the requirements of (a) and (b) above, and those students that opted for a final exam only) will be evaluated by a final exam only, which covers all the contents of the course.

In the case of choosing a final exam only, the professor may demand the student to deliver some additional tasks, which will be notified by the seventh week of the course. These tasks have to be delivered at the day of the final examination. To pass the course the student will have to obtain, at least, 50 points out of 100 in the final exam together with the additional tasks.