S.L. 327.88 Art. 13Responsibility of Board of Examiners.

(1) The Board of Examiners, collectively, shall be responsible for:

(a) the preparation of the Assessment (including marking scheme) to ensure that it meets the requirements and learning outcomes of the Study-Unit and that it covers the subject content specified in the Study-Unit description or syllabus;

(b) the marking of scripts or any other work submitted for Assessment and the moderation and award of the final marks;

(c) reviewing the marks of students who do not obtain an overall pass mark for a study-unit before the final result is agreed to and published.

(2) The Chairman shall:

(a) ensure that the Assessment process is conducted properly and in a timely manner;

(b) where necessary, engage in discussion with members of the Board of Examiners with a view to agree the assessment questions and mark scheme; and

(c) convene a meeting of the Board of Examiners to review and agree results: Provided that a Department may agree that the Boards of Examiners of all or of selected study-units are convened at one meeting during which the results of the study-units concerned are discussed. In such cases the responsibility of agreeing the results of each study-unit remains solely with the members of the Board of Examiners appointed for that unit.

(3) The lecturer or study-unit co-ordinator shall be responsible for the setting of the questions, the mark scheme, and/or any other assessment criteria as appropriate: Provided that when a unit is taught by more than one lecturer, the study-unit coordinator shall be responsible for coordinating the production of the examination paper, including the gathering of questions from the individual examiners/auxiliary examiners, the writing of the rubric and all other matters related to the proper production of the examination paper.