Frequently Asked Questions
Examination Frequently Asked Questions
Examination Frequently Asked Questions
Online Examinations
Examinations will usually* be of the normal duration plus one hour, added to allow time for you to scan and upload your solutions. Students with a learning profile that grants them extra time for examinations will receive an additional hour (this is in addition to the hour for uploading solutions).
* The additional hour may not be added in circumstances where existing technology employed permits continuous uploading throughout the exam.
The relevant School will provide further information on the format of these examinations.
In recognition that candidates will sit online exams across a range of time zones, the decision has been taken to introduce a single start-time for all exams as a way of trying to ensure that no student is expected to sit an exam during night time hours.
Students with extra time adjustments on their learning profile will have extra time granted for short-form exams of 2hr or 3hr duration. All students with extra time adjustments will be granted an additional hour to complete these short format exams. For example, if you have a 3-hr exam, you will be granted one additional hour to account for the electronic submission process, plus another additional hour to account for your profile adjustment, meaning you would have 5 hours to complete the exam. The additional hour is applicable to any short-form exam duration.
You should contact Student Disability Services for advice regarding other learning profile adjustments.
If you encounter any technical problems when uploading your completed exam, you are advised to:
- Do not do any further work on your examination answers
- Take screenshots of any error messages displayed
- Take screenshots of your examination answers
- Submit your work as soon as circumstances enable you to…….
- …..and also submit your work via email, taking care to include all accumulated screenshot evidence
- You should email all accumulated evidence immediately and not wait until you are able to submit your work online
With assessments delivered in a variety of formats, across a variety of learning tools, you should contact the relevant School for more detailed support and guidance.
General support from IS will be available through is.helpline@ed.ac.uk during the exam period (10 December- 21 December), at the following times:
- Mon-Thur: 8am-8pm
- Fri: 8am-7pm
- Sat: 9am-5pm
- Sun: 9am-5pm
Examination Timetables
The Timetable on my Phone service has been upgraded to include personalised exam timetable information for future exam diets. This is an important ‘next step’ in the University’s ambition to deliver a comprehensive personalised timetable service through your Office365 calendar.
Many of you will have already accessed your personalised teaching timetable through this service, in which case your exam timetable details will simply be added to your existing calendar. If you haven’t, don’t worry – simply go to the Timetable on my Phone webpage, where information and guidance can be found:
Information Services - Timetable on My Phone
Please contact the Examinations Office on examinations@ed.ac.uk with any queries regarding your timetable
Personalised Examination Timetable can be viewed in the following systems and applications:
Provides a personalised exam timetable
Allows you to find the date, time and locations of your exams
We have over 46,000 records being published to Office 365, please be patient while this is sent to all students who have exams. If they do not appear in your timetable. please e-mail examinations@ed.ac.uk please include your matriculation number, the course code and the title of the exams you are sitting. We can then investigate and reply to you.
You should contact your school office in the first instance; they will confirm if you have an exam. If the exam is to be timetabled the school will inform Student Administration, who will then update the timetable.
Changes can occur to the timetable, therefore please ensure that you recheck your exam details on a regular basis and immediately prior to your examination(s).
If an examination changes, it will be highlighted in blue on the timetable.
Please check your course enrolments - if they should be amended please contact the Course Secretary for both exams or your school office.
Once you have undertaken the above step and you still have a clash, you should contact examinations@ed.ac.uk
Resit Exams
The August 2021 Exam Resit Diet will be completed online. The exam dates are 09 August - 20 August 2021 (including Saturdays and Sundays). If you have any questions regarding this service, please email Examinations@ed.ac.uk
No, you are not required to register for a resit. Please note there is a fee attached to resitting an exam or a resubmission of coursework, but there will be no reassessment fees for undergraduate students resitting exams during the August 2021 examination diet.
There will be no reassessment fees for undergraduate students resitting exams during the August 2021 examination diet.
For more information, please use the link Reassessment fees 2020-2021 | The University of Edinburgh
There will be no reassessment fees for undergraduate students resitting exams during the August 2021 examination diet.
For more information, please use the link Reassessment fees 2020-2021 | The University of Edinburgh
You should contact your school office in the first instance. The school should then contact Examinations to confirm that the exam was a first sit attempt.
Reassessment fees for undergraduate students have been suspended for the August 2020 examination diet and the August 2021 examination diet.
If you have previously been invoiced for a re-sit examination, that you may think is incorrect. Please email Examinations@ed.ac.uk
Guidance and support for students with special arrangements
More information is available from Student Disability Services.