Humanities - Exams information

Home exams:

STATEMENT OF ACADEMIC INTEGRITY

All students who submit an exam in the form of a home assignment, essay/paper, semester assignment, project assignment, master's thesis, or the like at the Faculty of Humanities, must submit a statement of academic integrity together with the exam.

For the integrity statement form, please click here.

SOURCE REFERENCE

When you use sources in your submitted work, it is very important to make this visible.

If you quote or make references in your submitted work, you must refer
to the source so that the reader may locate the same text in the
original; this means listing the name of the author, the title of the work,
the year of publication, and the page(s) you are quoting or referring to.
If you are making use of parts of other person's ideas and text in your own paper without indicating that it is a quote or reference, it is the
same as plagiarising, in other words stealing. It is also plagiarism if you render, in your own words, the same as someone else has written,
without giving the proper reference.

Source reference
The different subject areas/disciplines may have their own ways of
marking quotes and references (tabulation, quotation marks, reference
to source - author, title, year, page numbers, publisher). If you are in doubt as to how you should proceed, you should ask the lecturer of the course in which you will have your exam.

Cheating

Plagiarism will be regarded as cheating or attempted cheating. Section 20 of the exam regulations at the University of Tromsø states the following:

Section 20 Cheating during examinations

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Candidates who are caught cheating or attempting to cheat during an examination can be excluded from the university and lose the right to sit the examination at any other institution for a period of up to one year.
(http://uit.no/studieavdelinga/regelverk/34)

Examinations - general information.

Please see the regulations for examinations.

Assessment terms and awarding of grades

Section 36 Assessment terms

The following assessment terms shall be used:

The above-mentioned letter grades (from A-F) have the following designations and general qualitative descriptions:

Symbol Designation General, qualitative descriptions of the assessment criteria

A Excellent
An excellent performance, which gains
distinction. The candidate displays an
extremely high level of independence.

B Very good A very good performance, certainly above average. The candidate displays a certain
degree of independence.

C Good A good overall performance, which is
satisfactory in most areas. The candidate displays independence in the most
important areas.

D Fair An acceptable, but below average
performance with some significant
shortcomings.

E Satisfactory A performance that meets the minimum requirements. The candidate displays little independence.

F Fail An effort that does not meet the minimum academic requirements. The candidate displays shortcomings with respect to independence.

The grade scale pass/fail shall be an independent assessment term not connected with the graded scale from A-F.

Felles kriterier for karakterer - fagvis:
Det nasjonale fakultetsmøte for de historisk-filosofiske fag, 04.07.2002 (pdf)