Examination Guidance

2. Take Home Assigments

A take home assignment is assessed coursework which is issued to students as part of the examination element of assessment. Take home assignments will be released at midnight (00:00hrs) on the first day of the relevant examination period.

Word Limit

Each assignment will have a word limit. The purpose of a word limit is to give all students a clear indication of the maximum length of a piece of assessed written work, the amount of work expected and therefore how much detail you should go into and how you should allocate time to one piece of assessed work in relation to others. Writing to set word limits is a skill required within most professions, as well as an academic skill. Word limits are set appropriate to the assessment outcomes.

Word limits will be set by module organisers on a case-by-case basis. The word limits are designed to allow you to complete the assignment within the time allowed (e.g. a single essay question over an exam originally scheduled for two hours would be around 2,000 words, two questions in two hours would be around 1,000.

Submission

Students will be required to submit via QMplus within two weeks (date to be confirmed) using the submission links in the module page. Submission drop boxes will close at the following times for each level of study:

UG Year 1 (level 4): 15:00 BST
UG Year 2 (level 5): 16:00 BST
UG Year 3 (level 6): 16:00 BST
Postgraduate (level 7): 15:00 BST

If you encounter technical problems in uploading the assignment to the QMplus page for this module, please email the appropriate address for your year:

UG Year 1: sbm-uglevel4@qmul.ac.uk
UG Year 2: sbm-uglevel5@qmul.ac.uk
UG Year 3: sbm-uglevel6@qmul.ac.uk
UG Joint Programmes: sbm-ugjoint@qmul.ac.uk
UG Accounting and Financial Management (AFM) compulsory modules: sbm-ug-afm@qmul.ac.uk
Postgraduate: sbm-postgraduate@qmul.ac.uk