What happens at the examiners meetings?
The three sets of exams (January, May/June, August/September) have corresponding sets of examiners’ meetings (February, June, September). Each set normally includes one meeting for each year (1st, 2nd and final) for single-honours (including with-BM) students, plus one meeting for joint-honours (CM) students. There are also meetings for ABIS, but normally only the head of UG and their tutor go to them. In February, there is no meeting for joint-honours CM students, and the three year meetings are merged into one. In June, there is one extra meeting with the external examiners, that completes the classification of final-year single-honours (and with-BM) students. In September there are no final-year resit exams and so no final-year meeting. Each meeting starts by looking at the mark averages and spreads for each course-unit and over-all, to ensure that they are reasonable or else that we understand and accept any anomalies. It may be that we agree to scale the marks for some exams. In F
