Overall grade assessment

Overall assessment of the written paper and oral presentation

The requirement for the evaluation to be based on an overall assessment means that the exam regulations for the relevant type of exams (cf. below) must not contain provisions for the written and the oral elements respectively to be part of the final grade with pre-established weights or percentages, as the evaluation would then resemble separate evaluations which would subsequently be mathematically summed up to one grade on the basis of the weights used.

It would also be contrary to the requirement for an overall evaluation if the exam regulations specified that the oral element could only affect the grade for the written paper within a defined margin (e.g. plus/minus one grade) or by a defined percentage of this.

The evaluation must therefore be an overall evaluation of the overall performance so that the examiners are free to decide on a grade after the oral performance and are not limited by a pre-defined margin for the result. The above concerns the formal rules, i.e. what can be specified in exam regulations for the exams in question. However, this will not hinder that it may be expressed at examiners’ meetings, in examiners’ instructions, or the like that for a specific type of exam, either the written or the oral element is expected to have the greater influence on the overall evaluation.