Evaluation

Students shall be offered two evaluation systems: continuous assessment or evaluation at the end of the semester.

• Continuous assessment .
• Exam-only assessment.
• Recovery in the month of June-July.

CONTINUOUS ASSESSMENT

The continuous assessment of the course will consist in:

• Four 30-minutes drills related to the laboratory work, that will account for 40% of the final grade.
• One project to be carried out in a group that will account for 20% of the final grade.
• A written exam encompassing all the material exposed in the classroom and laboratory. Will take place on the dates scheduled by the School. The exam shall help in gauging the level of understanding of the four-course topics. The exam will feature exercises and questions to be answered in two hours. Students may bring to the exam books, laboratory and classroom notes, and any other materials downloaded from faitic. The exam will account for 40% of the final grade.

The final qualification of the student will be computed as a weighted sum (40%, 20%, and 40%, respectively) of the qualifications of the laboratory, group project, and final exam. However, in order to pass the course, the grade of the final exam must not lie below 25 out of 100 points. If that grade is lower than 25, the final qualification will be the minimum among the aforementioned weighted sum and 4.5.

The contents and weights of each continuous assessment exercises are the following:

• Laboratory drill 1 (10 %):

Fourier Analysis through DFT: will take place in the fourth week of the course.

• Laboratory drill 2 (10 %)

Adaptive filtering: will take place in the sixth week of the course.

• Laboratory drill 3 (10 %):

Design and implementation of FIR and IIR filters: will take place in the tenth week of the course.

• Laboratory drill 4 (10 %):

Multirate Filter Banks: will take place in the thirteenth week of the course.

• Project: (20%) practical application of concepts mastered in the course. Oral presentations shall take place in the fourteenth week of the course.

Should a student decide not to be graded through continuous assessment , she will have a written examination opportunity that will take place the same day of the final exam for all the students. Before taking the exam though, the student shall sign a form in which he states his decision to dispense with continuous assessment .
This written exam will last three hours and will be composed of 5 exercises encompassing all the material mastered in the classroom, laboratory, and tutorial sessions, under the same conditions specified for the students that take the final exam at the end of the continuous assessment process.

Grading Periods

First opportunity to pass the course (December-January)

If the student passes the course in this period, her grade will be final and will be recorded in her academic file.

If the student does not pass the course, a provisional fail shall be posted in his academic file.

Second opportunity to pass the course (June-July)

In June-July only the written exams shall be offered. If a student wants to dispense with continuous assessment in this period, the student will be able to take the final exam reserved for those cases. Before taking the exam though, a form shall be signed, in which the student formulates the decision to dispense with continuous assessment . 

The provisional fail will become definitive should the student not take any of the written exams in this second period.

END-OF-PROGRAM CALL 

The student will have a written examination. This written exam will last three hours and will be composed of 5 exercises encompassing all the material mastered in the classroom.