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Okay, seems Iโm full of questions this evening.
Peeps who work in academia, plsโฆ How do late penalties on assignments work? This is going to sound so stupid, but I really am confused about this. I always thought the late penalty was applied to the final mark, but it seems not. It is applied to the total possible mark? Can someone give me an example of how this is applied? (Also, is this standard across Universities?)
I was about to pull the raw data and found a cat got into it. There will be a pause ๐พ
Over 20 years ago the penalty was to total possible. And hand in on last day got 50% automatic, unread, unmarked, no feedback.
Can you please show me how that works?
So say the mark was out of a possible 40 and the mark was 35 but there was a penalty of 35%.
What happens then?
35% of 40 total mark achievable is 14.
You would lose 14 marks out of whatever you scored.
Thank you so much! This is what I was trying to understand.
Back when then: you would get a possible mark cap. X-cut off the top. 2 days late your possible 100 has become 90.. I assume the actual math to be computered or discretionary.
When I was back in uni it used to be 10% off for a day late till I think 50% then you fail.
Just to add. I did a quick google search and Monash and Deakin and a number of other uni have it as 5% per late day of total marks achievable.
So I hate to ask but were you a week late in submitting something?
I can't comment as to your schools system, but the big think about late penalties is they're usually largely avoidable by asking for an extension. In particular asking for the extension before the due date. The whole "due date" thing is partly about teaching people time management. I'd regularly ask for extensions with reasons along the lines of "I have to work a lot this month to make rent".
As someone who has submitted quite a few assignments late this semester, the penalty per day is taken off per assignment. E.g. submit assignment five days late and 10% lost per day --> a 70 becomes a 20.
I feel like this is standard across unis, but could be wrong.