A process of continuous assessment based on midterms is established, but the student may choose alternatively an exam-only assessment.

Partial exams are not recoverable, i.e., if a student can not attend the day they are scheduled, teachers do not have obligation to repeat them. The grades for the partial exams are valid only for the academic year in which they are made.

Note 1: During exams mobile phones must be turned off and kept away. It is not allowed to use them as calculators. The student must have a calculator.

Note 2: It is not allowed to enter the classroom after an exam begins.

Continuous assessment:

For continuous assessment, the contents of theory are divided into three blocks and the contents of laboratory are divided into two blocks.

The student joins continuous evaluation if and only if he/she attends to any of the partial exams (either theoretical or laboratory ones) . From that moment, the student is considered as presented, and if he/she doesn't attend to any other partial exams, his/her mark on them will be zero.

As specified below, 4 points (out of 10) is considered as minimum grade in each block, as well as minimum theory grade, laboratory grade or grade of each block (grade of a partial examination or grade of that block in the final examination, in theory or practice, as well).

Regarding theory:

There are two partial exams, for the first two blocks. The student must repeat each partial exam in the final exam if the grade on any of them is less than 4. The exam of the third block is done by all students in the final exam.

If a student gets a grade of at least 4 points in a partial exam, he/she can try to improve the mark of that block in the final exam, but the grade in that block will be the one obtained in the final exam, even though it is less than the grade obtained in the partial exam.

The theory grade NT is the average grade of the three blocks, if the three student's grades exceed 4 point. If in any of the three blocks, the student does not reach 4 points, his/her theory grade is the minimum between 3.5 and the average of the three blocks.

The partial exams take place on the usual weekly scheduling of the classes and last 1 hour and 50 minutes each.

They include both one half (in time and in mark) of development questions and one half exercises.

The duration of each block of the final theory exam (first, second and third) is one hour.

Regarding practices:

Laboratory practices are assessed through practical exams described above (laboratory exams).

The practices of the two blocks are examined in two partial laboratory exams. The student must repeat a lab exam in the final exam if his/her mark in it is less than 4.

To participate in the partial exams of laboratory practices the student must attend to all the laboratory practices. Nevertheless, the students that do not fulfil this requirement can attend to the partial exams of theory and liberate themselves from its contents for the final theory exam.
If a student gets a grade of at least 4 points in a partial laboratory exam, he/she may try to improve the grade of that block in the final exam, but the grade in that block will be the one obtained in the final exam, even though it is less than the grade obtained in the partial exam.

The practice note NP is the average grade of the two blocks, if the grade of the student in both partial exams exceeds 4 points. If the student doesn't reach 4 points in any of the two blocks, his/her practice grade is the minimum between 3.5 and the average of the two blocks.

Material for practical exams:

The student must take to the practical exams the datasheets of the semiconductors used during the practices, which the student must gather as the practices are carried out. The student can also take to the practical exams the practices printed, bound or stapled, along with annotations added by the student during the realization of the practices, according to rules that will be detailed on the web of the subject.

VERY IMPORTANT: The students who want to attend to the lab final exam of the course must enroll for it, prior to the exam, via the subject web (section'Inscripciones'). The teachers of the subject will communicate through an announcement on that website a deadline for such preinscription. This preinscription is necessary to schedule the shifts for the lab exam. Only the students enrolled before that date will have right to do the lab exam.

Final grade:

The final grade NF is NT x 0.7 + NP x 0.3, if NT and NP are both at least 4 points. Otherwise NF is the minimum between 4.5 and NT x 0.7 + NP x 0.3 . NT and NP are calculated as indicated above. The student passes the subject in May session (first call) if the final grade NF is greater than or equal to 5.

Exam-only assessment

The students who choose exam-only assessment do the same final exam as those other who are assessed by continuous assessment and who have reached the minimum grade in no partial exam, i.e., they have to make all the final examination, both the three blocks of theory and the two blocks of lab practices.

The theory grade NT, the practice grade NP and the final grade NF are calculated in the same way as indicated above, for students assessed by continuous assessment.

Second call

The second call exam consists of two parts:

- A theory exam, 3 hours long. Its grade is NT.

- A laboratory exam, 1 hour 50 minutes long. Its mark is NP.

Unlike the final exam (first call), this exams are not divided into blocks.

The grade in this second call exam, NR, is NT x 0,7 + NP x 0,3, where NT is the theory exam grade and NP is the laboratory exam grade, provided that NT and NP are both greater or equal to 4 points. Otherwise, the grade in this second call is the minimum between 4.5 and NT x 0,7 + NP x 0,3.

In the second call, all the students can attend to both sections (theory and practice). The rule of 'highest grade' which is compulsory for the total grade of all the subjects, will apply in this subject also extended to each section; i.e., the theory grade of each student to calculate the grade for the second call will be the highest between the May theory mark (first call) and the mark in the second call theory exam. The same for the laboratory grade.

VERY IMPORTANT: In the same way as stated for the May final proof, the students who want to attend to the second call laboratory exam must enroll to attend to it, via the subject web. The teachers of the subject will communicate through an announcement on that website a deadline for such preinscription. This preinscription is necessary to schedule the shifts for the laboratory exam. Only the students who enroll before that date will cahave right to do the laboratory exam.

END OF CAREER EXAM

The end of career (E.C.) exam has the same structure as the second call exam and its grade is calculated the same way as in the second call exam, except that no grade of a previous opportunity is retained (neither from partial exams nor from final nor second call exam): the grade of a student in the E.C. act depends for all students only upon the E.C. exam itself.