(This is a translation, in case of any discrepancy or dispute, the original Spanish version shall prevail.)

Following the particular guidelines of this degree, the students taking this subject will be offered two alternative assessment systems: continuous assessment and single assessment.

It will be assumed that a student chooses continuous assessment if he or she takes and hands the third assessment exercise in (see §1.1) and that he or she chooses single assessment if he or she does not hand the aforementioned exercise in. Once the results of this exercise are handed in, it will be understood that the student has taken the current term's examination call and he or she will be qualified in the first assessment chance of the regular call according to the criteria that are detailed in §2.1, regardless of whether he or she takes the End of Semester Examination or not.

Proper ethical behaviour is requested from the students. In the event that the lecturers in charge of the assessment notice unethical behaviour (cheating, plagiarism, introduction or use of means not permitted by the rules and instructions for the assessment exercises and tests, etc.), the student will be regarded as not meeting the necessary requirements to pass the subject. In this case, the student will be assigned an overall grade of 0 (zero points) for the current academic year and the fact will be communicated to the head of the Centre to take appropriate measures.

1. ASSESSMENT TESTS

1.1. CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT INTERMEDIATE EXERCISES

The schedule of the exercises will be approved in a "Comisión Académica de Grado" (CAG) and made available by the beginning of each semester. These exercises are not retakeable, i.e., they can be only taken in the scheduled dates. The examinations (§1.2) allow recovering part of the lost marks up to reach the maximum overall grade (see §2.1).

As a general rule, the marks of each exercise will be published before the next one. The marked exercises may be revised, during the tutorial-aid hours of the corresponding lecturer , along the fourteen days following the publication date of the marks.

The marks obtained in the exercises will be only valid for the two assessment chances of the regular call (see §2.1) of the academic term the exercises have been taken.

Three exercises will be scheduled:

LC1 and LC2) Experimental laboratory exercises comprising the execution of actual measurements and the processing of the results, consisting in taking an experimental laboratory class, individually processing (during the last 30 minutes) the assessable results which will be specified in the corresponding experiments guide and handing them in at the end of the class (marks LC1 and LC2 between 0 and 1 point for each of the exercises).

TC) Combined individual test with questions and exercises. Questions about theoretical concepts and solving of elementary cases and situations related to the topics in the classroom syllabus (mark TC between 0 and 1 point). Length: 30 minutes during one of the theory or problem-solving lectures.

The exercises not taken by the student will be marked with 0 (zero points).

1.2. EXAMINATIONS

Combined individual tests with:

Tx) Questions and exercises, (mark Tx between 0 and 5 points distributed among them).

Px) Solving of one or two problems, (mark Px between 0 and 3,4 points distributed between them).

Lx) Solving of a laboratory problem comprising the execution of real or simulated measurements and the processing of the results (mark Lx between 0 and 1,6 points).

The parts of the examination that the student does not hand in will be marked with 0 (zero points).

Length: 2 hours in each of the dates officially assigned for the subject in the examinations schedule of the Centre.

1.2.1. Regular examinations

- First assessment chance: End-of-Semester Examination x = F (marks TF, PF, LF)

- Second assessment chance: Resit Examination x = R (marks TR, PR, LR)

1.2.2. Special examination

- End-of-studies call: End-of-Studies Examination x = E (marks TE, PE, LE)

2. REGULAR ASSESSMENT CALL GRADING

2.1. CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT option

2.1.1. Combined experimental laboratory mark (LLx)

For each of the assessment chances the combined experimental laboratory mark will be calculated as the sum of marks LC1 and LC2 from continuous assessment (§1.1) and mark Lx from the corresponding examination. If this sum results greater than 2 (two points) its value will be truncated to 2 (two points).

LLx = min {LC1 + LC2 + Lx , 2}

2.1.2. Overall grade

For each of the assessment chances the overall grade will be calculated as the sum of the marks of:

Tx) The questions and exercises part of the corresponding examination (§1.2.1).

TC) The questions and exercises continuous assessment test (§1.1).

Px) The problem solving part of the corresponding examination (§1.2.1).

LLx) The corresponding combined experimental laboratory mark (§2.1.1).

If this sum results greater than 10 (ten points) its value will be truncated to 10 (ten points).

OVERALL_x = min {Tx + TC + Px + LLx , 10}

2.2. SINGLE ASSESSMENT option

For each of the assessment chances the overall grade will be calculated as the sum of the marks of the corresponding examination (§1.2.1).

OVERALL_x = Tx + Px + Lx

3. SPECIAL END-OF-STUDIES CALL GRADING

The overall grade will be calculated as the sum of the marks of the End-of-Studies Examination (§1.2.2).

OVERALL_E = TE + PE + LE

4. CALCULATIONS AND ROUNDING

I) All of the aforesaid calculations to obtain the marks will be performed with a resolution equal to or better than one hundredth of a point (0,01 point).

II) The overall grade will be rounded to the nearest multiple of 0,1 point (one tenth of a point); if the two nearest multiples of 0,1 point are equidistant, the overall grade will be rounded to the higher of them.

III) The grading scale is established on the understanding that the minimum overall grade necessary to pass the subject is 5,0 points.