1. Continuous assessment:

The student is graded by means
of a continuous assessment, which consists of ‘partial exams’, including both
written exams (‘exámenes teóricos’) and laboratory exams (‘exámenes
prácticos’).

Nevertheless, a student may
choose between that continuous assesment or a one-session exam (‘examen
final’).  The rules of both kind of
assessment are as follows:

1.1.Written
exams (‘exámenes teóricos’):

The theoretical contents of
the course are divided into three blocks. The 1st block and the 2nd block are graded
by means of a ‘partial theoretical exam’ for each (examen parcial teórico).
They take place in the usual weekly scheduling of the theoretical classes of
the course. The 3^rd block is graded by means of another exam which takes
place only in the ‘final theoretical exam’, the ‘(April-)May exam’. All the
student must attend at this 3^rd block exam. The final theoretical
exam consists of  a ‘block exam’ for each
of the three blocks of the contents. The 1^st and the 2^nd
block are made only by the students who did not pass the respective partial
exam (grade<5 points over 10).

The contents of the blocks are
as follows:

1^st block:
‘Amplifiers’ and ‘Amplifiers frequency response’. This block weighs 20 percent
in total grade of the course.

2^nd block: From
“Operational amplifier” chapters until ‘DC power supplies’. 30 percent.

3rd block: chapters about
“Rectifiers and inverters” and solar energy. Every student makes an exam about
this contents in the May exam. 20 percent.

So, the weight of the theoretical
exams is 70 percent on the whole final grade of the course.

The partial exams (1st and 2nd
ones), which take place during the same weekly date and time scheduling as the
theoretical classes of each student consist of one half (in time and weight) of
short answer questions (‘cuestiones’) and one half of exercises.

- Weight of 1^st
partial theoretical exam on total final grade: 10% ‘cuestiones’, 10% exercises.

- Weight of 2^nd
partial theoretical exam on total final grade: 15% ‘cuestiones’, 15% exercises.

- Weight of 3^rd
block (graded only in the May exam): 10% ‘cuestiones’, 10% exercises.

1.2. Laboratory assessment:

The laboratory practical
clases are graded by means of ‘practical tests’. These are two partial exams
which, unlike the theoretical ones, cover the whole content of the course.

The students who don’t reach 5
points over 10 on a partial ‘practical test’ must repeat an exam on the
contents of  that ‘practical block’ on
the practical final exam (practical May exam). If the student reaches 5 points
over 10 in both exams, will be graded more than 5 points over 10 and will not
make the practical May exam.

The contents for the 1^st
laboratory block exam include the practical classes until the operational
amplifier ones. The contents for the 2^nd  include all the other laboratory classes,
from that point until the end of the laboratory classes.

The weight of the practical
exams over the whole course is 30 percent, 15 percent for each practical block.

1.3. Students who will be registered
as examined (‘presentados’):

Every student who attends the
1st partial practical exam will be registered as examined (‘presentado’) in the
results record (‘acta’).

Note that if in a certain year
the first partial theoretical exam takes place before the practical one, a
student may attend to the 1^st theoretical exam and, even, reject the
continuous assessment and be registered in the May record (acta de mayo) as
‘not examined’ (‘no presentado’), if he or she chooses not to make more partial
exams in the course and he or she doesn’t attend any of the exams, including
the 1^st partial practical
exam.

1.4. Which students pass the
course

The conditions that the
student has to fulfill to pass the course are as follows.

In order to pass the course,
the student must reach at least 5 points over 10 as a whole, taking into
account that theory (theoretical exams) weighs 7 points and the laboratory
exams (practical exams) weighs 3 points. In addition, the student must also
reach at least 30 percent of the grading of each section (theory/laboratory),
that is, he or she must reach at least 7x0.30=2.1 points over 7 in the section
‘theory’ and at least 3x0.30=0.9 points over 3 in the section ‘laboratory’ as
well.

In the July exam the theory
assessment is not made upon a block basis. Instead, the theory is graded as a
whole, with no minimum-grade requisites on any block. On the contrary, in the May
exam, the exam is graded upon a block basis, so that the student must reach at
least 30 percent of the grade in each block.

In order to pass the course, a
‘provisory total grade’ (NotaFinalProvisional) is defined this way:

NotaFinalProvisional = NotaDeTeoría x 0,7 +
NotaDePrácticas x 0,3 ,

(‘provisory total grade’ = TheoryGrade
x 0.7 + LaboratoryGrade x 0.3)

A student passes the course
only if his or her grades match both these conditions:

 (1) NotaFinalProvisional (‘ProvisoryTotalGrade’)
is at least 5 points over 10;

(2) NotaDeTeoría (TheoryGrade)
and NotaDePrácticas (LaboratoryGrade) are both at least 3 points over 10.

If both conditions are fulfilled,
then the final grade, which will be written down on the results record (acta),
will be NotaFinalProvisional (‘ProvisoryTotalGrade’).

If condition 1 is fulfilled,
but not condition 2, then the grade on the record (acta) will be 4.5.

The NotaDeTeoría (TheoryGrade)
is calculated as follows.

We define
NotaProvisionalDeTeoría (‘ProvisoryTheoryGrade’) as follows:

NotaProvisionalDeTeoría = NotaBloqueTeoría1 x 0,2 +
NotaBloqueTeoría2 x 0,3 + NotaBloqueTeoría3 x 0,2.

(ProvisoryTheoryGrade = TheoryBlock1
Grade x 0.2 + TheoryBlock2 Grade x 0.3 +

TheoryBlock2 Grade x 0.2.)

If the grade in each of three
theory blocks is at least 3 points over 10, then NotaDeTeoría =
NotaProvisionalDeTeoría (TheoryGrade = ProvisoryTheoryGrade), else NotaDeTeoría
= minimum{ NotaProvisionalDeTeoría ; 2.5}

(TheoryGrade = mínimum {ProvisoryTheoryGrade;
2.5})

It’s the same for the
laboratory grade:

NotaProvisionalDePrácticas = average
{NotaBloquePrácticas1; NotaBloquePrácticas2}

ProvisoryLabGrade = average
{LabBlock 1 Grade; LabBlock 2 Grade }

If the grade in each lab
blocks is at least 3 points over 10, then:

NotaDePrácticas = NotaProvisionalDePrácticas;

LabGrade = ProvisoryLabGrade

else NotaDePrácticas = mínimum {NotaProvisionalDePrácticas;
2.5}

(LabGrade = mínimum {
ProvisoryLabGrade; 2.5})

2. Assessment through final exam

The final exam in which
student not joining the continuous assessment are grades consists of two parts:
practical part and theoretical part, the latter is just the same for all the
students, including both students who attended to one partial exam and didn’t
pass it, and students who didn’t attend at any partial exam. (as explained
in paragraph 1.1). The weights of the blocks of theory upon the “provisory
final note” (“nota final provisional”) are the same as in the continuous assessment:
20%-30%-20%, each block containing ‘cuestiones’ and exercises.

The laboratory grade of
students who do not choose continuous assessment is made through a practical
exam made in laboratory in the dates stated in the final exam scheduling. It
lasts for two hours.

The weight of the laboratory
grade upon the “provisory final note” is the same as in the continuous
assessment: 30 percent.

The requirements needed to
pass the course in the final exam are the same specified in paragraph 1.4 about
“provisory final note” and minimum theory and practical grade, except in
calculation of the grade on a block basis; this ‘final exam’ assessment is not
made by blocks. That is:

To pass the course, the ‘provisory
final grade’ is considered. It is:

NotaFinalProvisional = NotaDeTeoría x 0,7 +
NotaDePrácticas x 0,3 ,

Provisory final grade =
TheoryNote x 0,7 + LabGrade x 0,3.

A student passes the course if
his grades fulfill both these two conditions:

(1)  
NotaFinalProvisional is at
least 5 points over 10;

(ProvisoryFinalGrade)

(2) NotaDeTeoría (TheoryGrade)
and NotaDePrácticas (LabGrade) are both greater or equal to 3 points over 10.

If both conditions fulfill,
the final grade, which will be the final grade, will be the Provisory Final
Grade.

If condition 1 is true but condition 2 is false, then
the final grade, will be 4.5.

VERY IMPORTANT: Students who
are going to attend to the laboratory exam included in the May exam must
contact with the course teachers, in order to make a suitable schedule. Each
student must communicate the teachers his or her participation by sending an
e-mail to the teachers on May 14^th 2014. The teachers will remember
the students this lapse some days before.

3. Second edition (July edition)

The second edition exam (for
the students who didn’t pass the course in its first edition –May-) also consists
of a theoretical exam and a lab exam.

In this second edition all the
paragraphs in point 2 (‘Final exam assessment’) apply.

To pass the course in this
edition, the conditions are the same as in the point 2, both in which relates
to ‘Provisory Final Grade’ and in theory and lab minimums.

All the students who didn’t
pass the course in the May edition may choose to attend to only one or both
sections (theory and laboratory).

The theory grade used for
calculating the provisory final grade for this second edition is the best of
the theory grade of the first edition (May) and the theory grade reached in the
July exam. Just the same for the laboratory grades.

VERY IMPORTANT: in the very
same way as for the May final laboratory exam, students must communicate the
teachers its participation in the July final laboratory exam, on June 17^th
2014, in order to make a suitable scheduling of the laboratory exam sessions.