School of Mathematical Sciences UG Student Handbook 2024/25

For further general information please see Exams / Past exam papers.

Examination Timetable

Your individual examination timetable will usually be available in MySIS towards the end of November for Semester A modules and the end of March for Semester B modules (please note these dates are subject to change). Please check it and report any errors to Registry immediately. In particular, check your resit and first sit entries.

Results

• We will endeavour to provide your provisional results via MySIS by the end of June. 
• We do not give results over the phone or by email. You should be able to access your results online via MySIS.
• Note that the results provided by the School are "provisional" because the Degree Examination Board has not yet formally approved them. Confirmed results will be released in July.

Late Summer Examinations

We will offer you late summer resits of any exams that you fail at your first attempt. We will enter you automatically for late summer exams for which you are eligible. You can withdraw but if you are absent then it counts as a fail. Late summer examinations normally take place during the first two weeks of August. The time table will be available in MySIS by around mid-July.

Your results will be accessible via MySIS. However, if necessary, you can check from the second week of September onwards whether you progress by emailing the Maths School Office.

Please note that academic staff members are available to help you with your modules during term time, but not generally during holiday periods, and certainly not without you first making an appointment. There is no formal revision period for late summer exams.

All students will now be automatically opted in to their resits, however students can still opt out. These resits will take place at the next available and earliest opportunity usually in the late summer period. All resits will be free of charge.

More detailed information on re-sit examinations, missing exams etc. can be found here http://www.arcs.qmul.ac.uk/students/exams/index.html.

Examination Offences

Queen Mary takes your assessment very seriously. This means that we must strictly obey the rules governing assessments and so must you. Generally, calculators are not allowed in examinations, but if calculators are allowed then the examination rubric will state this clearly, so be sure to read the rubric. If you use a calculator in an examination in which calculators are not allowed, you can expect to receive a mark of zero for the examination. It is also an examination offence to take any notes into the examination room even if you do not look at them (unless the exam is open-book), to look at another student's work, to disrupt the examination in any way or to fail to do what an invigilator asks you to do. These rules apply also to tests.

Assessment offences include plagiarism, fraudulent reporting of source material and exam offences.

If an allegation of an assessment offence is made against a student, a formal procedure is selected depending on the allegation, the type of assessment the allegation applies to, and whether this is a first-time offence or not.

Also the use of ghost writing (e.g. essay mills, Chegg, code writers etc.) and generally using someone external to the institution to produce assessment is an assessment offence.

More information on the procedure can be found on the Academic Registry webpages