What to expect during your assessments
Every credit-bearing module you take has some form of assessment - an exam, a project, a presentation or some other way for you to show what you’ve learned. So it’s important to understand how assessment fits into your academic journey with us.
Here's how you’ll interact with your coursework and exams before, during and after your assessment periods - from planning your revision to getting your results, and what to do if you're ill. Think of these pages as your roadmap to success!
Assessments, exams and your time with us
Before your assessments
Where to find your assessment information, how to prepare, and following the rules
During your assessment period
Getting your essays and projects in on time, what you’ll need to bring to exams, and what to do if you can’t attend or submit on time.
After your assessments
How you’ll get and understand your results, how we decide your grades, and what you can do if you disagree.
Reasonable adjustments to your assessment
If you have any additional needs related to assessment, please let us know. You can either contact our Additional Support and Disability Advice Centre (ASDAC) for adjustments or reach out directly to your course leader and module coordinators. We will consider what reasonable adjustments are appropriate and this will be recorded on your student record, which you can access through your Student View.
If you are concerned about specific arrangements please contact Student Support Services at the MyPort Hub for guidance.
Support and advice
If you have queries about your assessments, contact the module co-ordinator, or the Student Support Services . You’ll be able to get advice, support and answers to your questions either way.
You can find your personal tutor’s details in your Portal, if you don’t have them to hand, or you can contact the Student Support Services team with these details:
- Live chat - which appears as a purple box in the bottom right of all MyPort web pages
- Email - myport@port.ac.uk
- Phone - +44 (0)23 9284 4444
- In person - University House, Winston Churchill Ave, Southsea, Portsmouth PO1 2UP
Opening hours
The MyPort Hub team is available from 8.30am to 5.00pm Monday to Thursday, and from 8.30am to 4.00pm on Friday.
About these pages
The advice here applies to you if you’re doing an undergraduate or postgraduate taught degree at the University of Portsmouth, whether you’re at the Portsmouth campus, the London campus, or on a distance learning programme. This includes degree apprenticeships.
It explains our policy document, Examination and Assessment Regulations, which details the standards and credit requirements for your degree.
These are the 2024-2025 regulations. We review and update our assessment regulations every year, and you’ll be working within the most recent regulations (unless you’ve been told otherwise). In some rare cases, we may have to make temporary changes to regulations, in order to ensure your assessments are handled with fairness and integrity; if this happens, we’ll inform you of any changes and the reasons for them.
If you’re studying a Degree Apprenticeship, you’ll have a compulsory End Point Assessment (EPA) as part of your assessment plan. If there are any differences between the university assessment regulations and your EPA, the EPA takes priority.
