Subjects evaluation

This regulation develops the competences that the Academic Regulation of degree and master studies of UPC (NAGRAMA) gives to the school, and the specific aspects of the study plan of degree in Architecture Studies. This regulation is of general application to the students from this degree.

For each subject, the School provides two ordinary calls: the Continuous Assessment and the Final Assessment. The method of assessment must ensure that the final result takes into account all the assessment acts of the subject with the following conditions:

The method of assessment of a subject:

• It must foresee that the student can pass the subject on the basis of continuous assessment. In this case, students are not obliged to sit the final assessment.
• It must guarantee that the final assessment allows the teaching staff to make a general assessment of the student's learning process in such a way that it can replace, whenever it is for improvement, the grade obtained by the student in the continuous assessment. Students have the right to sit a final assessment exam without having to have taken the continuous assessment assessment.
• It must ensure that the final grade is at least the grade obtained in the continuous assessment.

Continous assessment

At the beginning of each semester, the Management or the Committee to which it delegates will coordinate the scheduling of the continuous assessment events for the subjects on the basis of the dates proposed by the teaching staff responsible for each of them. The dates of the continuous assessment events shall be communicated to the school no later than 7 calendar days before the start of classes, so that they can be made public at the start of the academic year. The School, as the body responsible for the programming of the assessment events, shall ensure that they are complied with, disseminated and adapted to the calendars approved by the School's governing bodies.

Continuous assessment events must take place during the teaching days of each subject and never during non-teaching periods, holidays or weekends.

During the academic year, students have the right to know the result of any assessment event within a maximum period of two weeks from the date of the test or delivery. At the end of the teaching period, the teaching staff will publish the marks obtained by the students in the continuous assessment, in a descriptive and numerical way.

Students who have enrolled with some kind of timetable incompatibility cannot claim, for this reason, to be assessed on dates other than those scheduled.
This grade must be provided at the latest one week before the day of the Final Assessment.
If the grade obtained in the continuous assessment is equal to or higher than 4, the student will not be obliged to take the final assessment.
If the grade of the continuous assessment is higher than the Final Assessment, it will be the one that will be included in the student's transcript.

Final Assessment

The teaching plan of the subjects foresees a global final exam, so that passing it will imply passing the subject.

At the end of the exam period, and on the dates established in the academic calendar of the school, the teaching staff of the subject will provide the school with the Evaluation Report with the descriptive and numerical grades of the students enrolled, taking into account the rules established in the Evaluation section of the Academic Regulations of the UPC Bachelor's and Master's Degrees.

A minimum period of one week must be guaranteed between the date of publication of the Continuous Assessment and the date of the Final Assessment. This period will be established in the ETSAB academic calendar. The teaching staff may add any observations they deem appropriate in order to advise students for the final assessment. The teaching staff must establish and publish, on the day of any assessment event, the date on which the marks will be provided and the period for their revision, taking advantage of the means available to them to facilitate these consultations by the students.

The teaching staff will ensure that the publication of the results of the assessments is done in accordance with the requirements of legislation on the protection of personal data, taking special care not to link the ID card with the name and surname of the student.

Revision of evaluation acts

Students have the right to a personalised review of the results of the continuous or final assessment by the lecturers who have assessed them.

The school will make the results of the assessment public by the means determined by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.

Against the results of the final assessment, students may submit a reasoned request for review to the director within a maximum period of 7 calendar days from the date of publication of the revised grades that are the subject of the complaint.

The Principal must arbitrate the specific procedure he/she considers appropriate to resolve each complaint in an impartial manner, a procedure that must always include the hearing of the teacher responsible for the grade. If this procedure includes the designation of a panel, the teacher responsible for the marking may not be a member.