Examinations are used as the main assessment of what you have learned in your modules. These take place towards the end of each year. Continuous assessment is used for practical work, and some other modules also contain an element of this. All marks over the three or four years of your programme are taken into consideration when deciding the class of your degree. These are only the beginning of the learning process and are designed to present you with outlines of the knowledge and skills that you will need to be successful in your course.
Guidance is provided by academics.
These are designed for more individually tailored teaching and learning. You decide what you want to discuss with an academic, either because you have specific problem or just because you're interested in learning more. It's essential that you develop core experimental skills and put your academic knowledge into practice. Within the department we make extensive use of the web, with many additional teaching packages and supplementary material being available electronically. We take our teaching very seriously at Warwick and aim to improve continuously all the teaching in the Chemistry Department.