Feedback
The School seeks to provide prompt, informative and helpful feedback in line with the University's enhancing feedback policy.
Ordinary courses
Generic feedback will be provided on course websites shortly after the Exam Board has met. This may include suggested answers to the examination and examiner's comments. Students who have failed exams are able to contact the Course Organiser to request more detailed feedback.
From 2011-12 we have introduced a new four step process for obtaining feedback on Ordinary Course exams. We hope that this will help students to reflect on their exam performance and seek to improve it.
Where you wish feedback on an Ordinary exam paper, the four-stage feedback process is as follows:
- Receive exam results;
- Consult the generic feedback, which will be posted on the course website usually within 3 weeks of the release of exam results;
- Consult your exam paper in Old College. Exam papers will be made available during Freshers week and week 1 in September for the April/May and August exams, and in late January/ early February for the December exams. Precise dates will be notified nearer the time.
You will be able to review your paper (but not remove it from the office). It is
recommended that you use this opportunity to review your script against the generic
feedback and the Ordinary Marking Criteria, both available on the School website.
If you wish to see your exam paper in this period, please email:
law.exams@ed.ac.uk
at least two days in advance, so that the Teaching Office can ensure it is available for
consultation on the appropriate day.
4. Seek a meeting with the relevant Course Organiser, using the form below, to discuss
any queries you may have. Where you wish to arrange a meeting with the Course
Organiser, please follow the instructions on the Ordinary Exam Feedback Request Form.
Honours courses
in addition to the feedback provided on a formative exercise, there will be written feedback provided on the summative essays submitted in January.
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