The word limit includes any embedded quotations, headings for tables, content of tables, labels on diagrams, and in-text references.
Before you start writing each essay, spend some time planning how you will structure it. Then spend the bulk of your time writing the essay, and some time checking it through for errors and word count once you have finished.
Although the exam has an open book format, which allows you to consult the module materials, it is important that you do not plagiarise text – i.e. copy and paste, or paraphrase text or diagrams from anywhere without appropriate acknowledgement. All remote exam submissions will be subject to plagiarism and collusion checks.
To avoid plagiarism, we recommend that you write your answer for each question from memory (as if in a ‘normal’ exam) and then (if time allows and you wish to) consult the module material to go back and make corrections or small additions (in your own words).
You don’t need to provide full in-text references or a reference list/bibliography, as you would normally do in a TMA. However you do need to acknowledge where key ideas, concepts or quotes come from. The simplest way to do that is to either use the relevant author’s name in the sentence, or put it in brackets at the end of the sentence.
In this exam, except in special circumstances, only hand-drawn diagrams can be used. For more information see ‘Use of technical tools (diagrams, game theory and data analysis)’ in Section 3.1 of Assessment Guidance on this module website.
