Final marks should appear on annual result notices. It is the responsibility of faculties, colleges and boards of studies to ensure that all details of assessment systems are explicit and made available to students, whatever the system. Assessment systems will be less troublesome if they are based on the simple aggregation of progressive scores, but adoption of such a system is not essential. In certain courses there may need to be provision for qualitative judgements to be made independently of numerical scores. Where there is such provision, the nature of the provision should be explicit in the published assessment policy, e.g. who makes the qualitative judgement and at what stage in the assessment process.
Students have a right to know the major components of final marks.
Documents submitted by students for assessment should be retrievable by students within a reasonable time after the completion of assessment in each course, policy in this respect to be determined by faculties, colleges and boards of studies, and published. Forms of examination paper which involve the repeated use of the same material in successive examinations may continue to be kept confidential. Examiners should be encouraged to provide publicly data which will allow students to gauge their comparative performance. The form in which these data are made available should be at the discretion of the examiner.