Review your final assessment timetable
About four weeks before the start of the final assessment period, you can view your scheduled assessments in your personal timetable using:
- the Student Portal
- Allocate+, or
- the Monash Study app.
For help, see how to view your final assessment timetable in Allocate+.
For all final assessment timetable release dates, see final assessment dates.
What to check
It’s important to check your final assessment timetable details carefully – misreading your timetable is not grounds to apply for special consideration.
You can have a maximum of two final assessments in one day. If for some reason your final assessment timetable is showing three in one day, message Monash Connect and we’ll fix this for you.
| What to check | Help with this step |
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| Ensure all your final assessments are listed |
There are a few reasons why a unit may not appear in your timetable:
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| Check whether you have a clash |
If you have a clash, we'll move one of your assessment start times so you can complete both assessments on the same day (you don't have to do anything). We'll email you two weeks before the final assessment period, outlining the exact arrangements for the day. If you've withdrawn from either of the clash units and intend to complete only one assessment, you need to message Monash Connect to confirm the new arrangements. |
| Check the assessment format |
It's your responsibility to check with your teaching staff if it's a closed book, open book, or open access assessment. Your assessments will be in one or more of the following formats:
If you have an on-campus eExam, you’ll need to be there in person. Your exam could also be rescheduled, so make sure you’re available to come to campus for the entirety of the final assessment period. Unless there are exceptional circumstances, you won’t be eligible for an online exam or special consideration if you’re away on holiday or travelling, so plan ahead and avoid booking a trip during the final assessment period. You must be available, prepared and equipped to complete your final assessment task in the mode and format specified in your assessment timetable. If you’re sitting an eExam, your timetable will show whether or not you'll have online supervision. For department-run assessments, check your unit’s Moodle page or see your department for more information. |
| Check your assessment start time |
For students enrolled at Australian campuses, start times are shown in Melbourne time. If you’re enrolled at our Malaysia campus, your start times will be shown in Malaysia time (MYT). If you're currently enrolled at our Suzhou campus, your start times will be shown in China Standard Time (CST). If you’re currently located in a different time zone, you can view your assessment details in your local time by subscribing to the timetable (pdf, 1.27 mb). |
| Check all information again closer to the time – details may change without warning | You can easily check your assessment details on the go using the Monash Study app on your iPhone or Android. |
If you think there’s been a mistake in how your mark or grade was calculated, you can contact the chief examiner about having it corrected.
Just keep in mind, while your work is being marked, you can’t contact staff about an assessment or thesis examination issue – not even to complain informally.
Re-marking
If you fail a major assessment (worth 20% or more of your unit’s total mark) it will be automatically re-marked before your result is finalised – so there’s no need to request one.
Outside of this process, in most cases you’re not entitled to a re-mark, and it’s unlikely that a complaint about a faculty’s refusal to re-mark will be successful.
Keep in mind that the following are not considered marking errors:
- you feel you didn’t get enough explanation for your mark
- you disagree with how the marker weighed parts of your assessment
- the marker doesn’t agree with your summary, data or findings
- your mark is inconsistent with what you received for similar assessments
- you expected a higher mark based on your past performance
- friends or colleagues think you deserved a higher mark.
Correcting a mark or grade
Examples of marking or grading errors may include:
- your marks having been been summed up incorrectly
- receiving a late penalty even though you submitted on time.
Format and deadlines
Your request for a correction needs to be in writing, so email the chief examiner. Make sure you do this within this timeframe below:
- In-semester assessments – within ten working days of your mark’s release.
- Final assessments:
- semester one –- within six weeks of the release of your unit results.
- semester two –- before the end of week one of semester one the next year.
This is your first step in addressing your complaint. If you’re unable to resolve the issue with your chief examiner, see how to raise and resolve a complaint for what to do next.