Marking criteria for written examination

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Language and formal skills

A: An excellent performance, clearly outstanding. The candidate demonstrates excellent judgment and a high degree of independent thinking.

B: The candidate demonstrates sound judgment and a very good degree of independent thinking

Kandidaten viser meget god vurderingsevne og selvstendighet

The exam answer:

• gives clear and precise answers to the questions posed in the examination question paper(s).
• demonstrates excellent/very good knowledge and overview of the topic of the exam question and learning outcomes of the course.
• distinguishes in an excellent/very good manner between what is essential compared with what is unessential/irrelevant, and distinguishes in an excellent/very good manner between what is certain and what is doubtful. 
• demonstrates a high degree of independence in ability to reason critically and independently based on the literature and teaching of the course.
• demonstrates an excellent/very good awareness of the legal-political dimensions of the topic of the question.

The exam answer demonstrates:

• excellent/very good ability to find and formulate legal issues, including distinguishing between various problems and principal and subsidiary questions, as well as an ability to put these questions into their correct context.
• excellent/very good ability to discuss questions in a professionally sound and judicious manner, and utilise available legal materials and facts in accordance with professional methodological principles. 
• excellent/very good ability to dimension the answer sensibly.

The exam answer demonstrates:

• excellent/very good command of language, exposition skills and level of accuracy

A good performance in most areas. The candidate demonstrates a reasonable degree of judgment and independent thinking in the most important areas.

The exam answer gives clear and precise answers to the questions posed in the examination question paper(s).

The exam answer:
answers the questions posed in the examination question paper(s).
demonstrates good knowledge and overview of the topic of the exam question and learning outcomes of the course.
distinguishes well between what is essential in relation to what is unessential/irrelevant, and distinguishes well between what is certain and what is doubtful.
demonstrates to some degree an independent ability to reason critically and independently based on the literature and teaching of the course.
demonstrates a good ability to see legal-political dimensions of the topic of the question.
The exam answer gives clear and precise answers to the questions posed in the examination question paper(s).The exam answer:

• answers the questions posed in the examination question paper(s).
• demonstrates good knowledge and overview of the topic of the exam question and learning outcomes of the course.
• distinguishes well between what is essential in relation to what is unessential/irrelevant, and distinguishes well between what is certain and what is doubtful.
• demonstrates to some degree an independent ability to reason critically and independently based on the literature and teaching of the course.
• demonstrates a good ability to see legal-political dimensions of the topic of the question.
• The exam answer gives clear and precise answers to the questions posed in the examination question paper(s).Eksamensbesvarelsen gir klare og presise svar p? sp?rsm?lene som stilles i oppgaven(e).

The exam answer demonstrates:

• good ability to find and formulate legal issues, including an ability to distinguish between various problems and principal and subsidiary questions.
• good ability to discuss questions in a professionally sound and judicious manner, and utilise available legal materials and facts in accordance with professional methodological principles.
• good ability to dimension the answer sensibly.

The exam answer demonstrates:

• good command of language, exposition skills and level of accuracy

D: Satisfactory
E: Sufficient 
 

D: A satisfactory performance, but with significant shortcomings. The candidate demonstrates a limited degree of judgment and independent thinking.

E: A performance that meets the minimum criteria, but no more. The candidate demonstrates a very limited degree of judgment and independent thinking.

The exam answer:

• gives inadequate/vague answers to the questions posed in the examination question paper(s).
• demonstrates moderate/some knowledge and overview of the topic of the exam question and learning outcomes of the course.
• demonstrates moderate/little ability to distinguish between what is essential in relation to what is unessential/irrelevant.
• demonstrates moderate/little ability to reason critically and independently based on the literature and teaching of the course.
• demonstrates moderate/little ability to see legal-political dimensions of the topic of the question.

The exam answer demonstrates:

• moderate/little ability to find and formulate legal issues, including an ability to distinguish between various problems.
• moderate/little ability to discuss questions in a professionally sound and judicious manner, and utilise available legal materials and facts in accordance with professional methodological principles.
• moderate/little ability to dimension the answer sensibly.

The exam answer demonstrates:

• satisfactory/relatively poor command of language, exposition skills and level of accuracy

The exam answer:

• does not answer the questions posed in the examination question paper(s).
• lacks knowledge and overview of the topic of the exam question and learning outcomes of the course.
• lacks the ability to distinguish between what is essential in relation to what is unessential/irrelevant.
• lacks the ability to reason critically and independently based on the literature and teaching of the course.
• lacks the ability to see legal-political dimensions of the topic of the question.

The exam answer demonstrates:

• an inability to find and formulate legal issues, including an ability to distinguish between various problems.
• an inability to discuss questions in a professionally sound and judicious manner, and utilise available legal materials and facts in accordance with professional methodological principles.
• an inability to dimension the answer sensibly.

The exam answer demonstrates:

• poor command of language, exposition skills and level of accuracy