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Consult your student handbook or speak to your module tutor or course administrator if you are unsure of a coursework deadline and submission procedures. Give yourself as much time as possible to complete each assignment so you can complete it to the best of your ability and you don't have to rush or worry about incurring late submission penalties. Avoid leaving completing an assignment to the last minute/hour/day just in case unexpected problems occur. Missed submission deadlines If you hand in your work late, without a good reason for doing so, your mark will be reduced in line with the University’s penalties scheme for late submission of coursework. See Senate Regulation 7.91 to 7.96. If, however, life has conspired against you to prevent you from meeting an assignment deadline don’t despair. The University recognises that students may suffer from a sudden illness or other serious or significant event that is unforeseen and/or unpreventable and which adversely affects their ability to complete an assessment; in such cases the University’s mitigating circumstances regulations and procedures may be applied. You’ll need to complete a Mitigating Circumstances Form and submit it with supporting evidence to your department. Visit our mitigating circumstances page for further details. A possible outcome, if it is accepted that mitigating circumstances apply, is for late submission penalties to be waived for the assignment that has been affected. Other options, such as the setting of a revised submission deadline, may also be applied if the Mitigating Circumstances Panel considers it is appropriate. The University's regulations about the late submission of coursework are found in Senate Regulation 7: governing the Assessment of Taught Programmes (PDF). See regulations 7.91 to 7.96 for full details Penalties for late submission Senate Regulation 7.95 – 7.96: In cases where there are no accepted mitigating circumstances, late submission of coursework shall lead automatically to the imposition of a penalty. Penalties shall be applied as soon as the deadline is reached. The University’s penalty scheme is as follows: a deduction of 10% of the maximum mark available from the actual mark achieved by the student shall be imposed upon expiry of the deadline; a further deduction of 5% of the maximum mark available from the actual mark achieved by the student shall then be imposed on each of the next subsequent working days; the subsequent 24 hour periods described under (b) above shall apply from the expiry of the initial deadline. For example, where a deadline is 14:00 on Wednesday, a 10% penalty shall be deducted at 14:01 on Wednesday, and a subsequent 5% shall be deducted at 14:01 on Thursday; under (a) and (b) above penalties shall be applied until the pass mark for the assessment has been reached (40% for undergraduate work and 50% for postgraduate work), after which point no further penalties shall be applied unless the work is deemed to be a non-submission (see (e) and (f) below); for undergraduate programmes: any piece of work submitted 11 or more working days after the expiry of the deadline will not be marked but will be assigned a mark of zero and deemed to be a non submission; for postgraduate programmes: any piece of work submitted 9 or more working days after the expiry of the deadline will not be marked but will be assigned a mark of zero and deemed to be a non submission; ‘available marks’ in this context means the maximum marks available for the piece of work (for example, 100 would be the available mark in a percentage marking scheme); ‘working day’ in this context means a period of twenty four hours or part thereof from Monday to Friday inclusive, excluding public holidays and University closure days. Where required for practical reasons the range and timing of penalties for the non-completion of certain forms of assessment such as presentations may be determined by departments in the light of local circumstances, but should be applied according to agreed procedures. In cases where the turnaround time for marking is less than ten days, departments are also authorised to introduce appropriate variations to the scheme set out above. 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