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BY: Severious Kale-Dery
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The University of Ghana has altered its grading system for students to reflect the peculiarity of the time occasioned by the outbreak of the coronavirus (COVID-19).
Consequently, grades for assignments will now be marked over 70 per cent, while the examination takes 30 per cent. This is a reversal of the norm, where assignments were marked over 30 per cent while the examination took 70 per cent.
This is to make for the limited time the students have to assimilate everything they have been taught within the seven weeks.
The alteration, which maintains the quality of tuition and learning, is mainly in response to the university’s decision to split undergraduate students into two streams over the semester in seven weeks instead of the usual 13 weeks in a semester.