DISTINCTION + DISTINCTION MERIT PASS FAIL FAIL - FAIL --

82 or more 72,75,78 62,65,68 52,55,58 45 35 25, 15, 0

Excellent Very good Good Satisfactory Weak comprehensive Poor comprehensive Little to no
comprehensive comprehensive comprehensive comprehensive understanding and understanding and comprehensive
understanding and understanding and understanding and understanding and critical analysis critical analysis understanding and
Intellectual qualities expressed
critical analysis critical analysis critical analysis critical analysis critical analysis

Structure & organisation
Excellent balance Very good balance Good balance and Satisfactory balance Weak balance and Poor balance and Little to no balance
and clarity in and clarity in clarity in argument. and clarity in clarity in argument. clarity in argument. and clarity in
argument. argument. Systematic Systematic ordering argument. Systematic Systematic ordering Systematic ordering argument. Systematic
Systematic ordering ordering of ideas, of ideas, concepts ordering of ideas, of ideas, concepts of ideas, concepts ordering of ideas,
of ideas, concepts concepts and and materials is very concepts and and materials is weak and materials is poor concepts and
and materials is materials is excellent good materials is materials is little or
outstanding satisfactory non existent

Excellent evidence Very good evidence Good evidence of Satisfactory evidence Weak evidence of Poor evidence of Little to no evidence
of comprehensive of comprehensive comprehensive and of comprehensive comprehensive and comprehensive and of comprehensive
and in-depth, and in-depth, in-depth, relevant and in-depth, in-depth, relevant in-depth, relevant and in-depth,
relevant reading, relevant reading, reading, including relevant reading, reading, including reading, including relevant reading,
including specialist including specialist specialist academic including specialist specialist academic specialist academic including specialist
Level of reading
academic journals academic journals journals and books academic journals journals and books journals and books academic journals
and books and books and books and books

Quality of referencing
Excellent precision in Very good precision Good precision in Satisfactory precision Weak precision in Poor precision in Little to no precision
presentation. in presentation. presentation. Very in presentation. presentation. Weak presentation. Poor in presentation. Little
Outstanding Excellent precision in good precision in Satisfactory precision precision in Harvard precision in Harvard to no precision in
precision in Harvard Harvard referencing Harvard referencing in Harvard referencing and referencing and Harvard referencing
referencing and and bibliography and bibliography referencing and bibliography format bibliography format and bibliography
bibliography format format format bibliography format format

Excellent academic Very good academic Good academic Satisfactory academic Weak academic Poor academic No or almost absent
writing style. Attention writing style. Attention writing style. Attention writing style. Attention writing style. Attention writing style. Attention academic writing
to spelling, to spelling, to spelling, to spelling, to spelling, to spelling, style. Attention to
punctuation and/or punctuation and/or punctuation and/or punctuation and/or punctuation and/or punctuation and/or spelling, punctuation
Writing style grammar is grammar is excellent grammar is very good grammar is grammar is weak grammar is poor and/or grammar is
outstanding satisfactory little or non existent