End of the assessment

a. The invigilator will indicate when the final 10 minutes of the as-sessment have started. Applicants will only leave the room at the end of the assessment time, when given the signal to do so by the invigilator.

b. Applicants who are still working on the assessment up to the end of the assessment time will put away their writing materials at a sign from the invigilator and will remain seated until the invigilator has collected their assessment work.

c. Applicants shall hand in the exercise(s) and rough paper to the invigilator together with their answers.

3.2 Obligations relating to the completed assessment

1. In the event that the answers that were handed in are lost after they were recorded by the invigilator, the applicant will be given the op-portunity to resit the assessment in question in the next assessment period established for this purpose.

2. In the event that answers are lost after a score was awarded by the examiner, the result awarded will be regarded as the final result.

3. If no score is awarded, the applicant will be given the chance to sit the assessment at the earliest opportunity in the assessment period established for this purpose.

3.3 Definition of fraud and plagiarism

1. Fraud and plagiarism are understood to refer to an act committed by an applicant, or a applicant's failure to act, as a result of which an accurate assessment of his/her knowledge, insight and skills are rendered either partly or completely impossible.

2. Fraud will be understood to include the following at the very least:

a. When it is observed, during or after an assessment, that an applicant fails to hand in his/her completed assessment;

b. When it is observed, during or after an assessment, that the

ted (a pre-programmed calculator, mobile phone, books, syllabi and notes, etc.);

c. When it is observed, during or after an assessment, that the module participant looks or has looked at the work produced by another module participant or module participants;

d. When it is observed, during or after an assessment, that the applicant encourages or gave other applicants the opportunity to look at his work;

e. When it is observed, during or after an assessment, that the appli-cant gives or has given information to other appliappli-cants about the content and answers to the assessment during the assessment;

f. When it is observed, during or after an assessment, that the applicant gives or has given incorrect or false information about his identity during the assessment;

g. When it is observed, during or after an assessment, that the ap-plicant has commissioned another person to impersonate him;

h. Obtaining, prior to the date or time at which the assessment is to take place, a copy of the questions or assignments contained in the assessment concerned.

3. Plagiarism will be understood to include the following at the very least:

a. The use or copying of texts, data or ideas without providing full and accurate details of the source;

b. Presenting the structure or central thinking contained in sources produced by third parties as one's own work or as one's own thoughts, even if a reference to other authors has been included;

c. Paraphrasing (passages from) the content of texts produced by others, without sufficiently acknowledging the source in question;

d Reproducing figures and illustrations without stating the source from which they have been obtained;

e. Submitting text that has previously been submitted for assign-ments in other study programme components, or that is similar to such texts;

f. Copying work from applicants and passing this off as your own work;

3.4 Fraud during assessments

1. Where an applicant commits fraud, the Exam Committee for the 21+

Exam, the NT2 Exam and the Deficiencies Exam (the Committee) is entitled to deny the individual in question the right to sit one or more assessments or examinations to be indicated by the Committee for a period of time of up to one year, which period shall be determined by the Committee. In the event of serious fraud, the Executive Board shall be able to permanently refuse the enrollment of the individual in question for the study programme on the proposal of the Board.

2. The Board shall not impose a measure as referred to in Subsection 1 before the individual accused of fraud has been given the opportu-nity to present his/her case. When doing so, the individual accused of fraud shall be able to arrange to be represented by a confidential counsellor or an authorised representative.

3. A decision by the Board to impose a measure as referred to in the previous subsections shall be a reasoned decision. The Board shall notify the violator of the decision in writing within two weeks of the date on which the decision was taken.

4. The applicant in question shall have the right to lodge a judicial appeal against one of the decisions referred to above with the Examination Appeals Board (Appendix 5).

3.5 Official report

1. In the event that at any point during the assessment, a applicant com-mits an irregularity, the invigilator shall be entitled to interrupt that as-sessment of that applicant, collect his/her work and to deny the student any further access to the room in which the assessment is being held.

2. Once an assessment has ended, the invigilators must sign the written record sheet included with each assessment and will also state any relevant observations on the same form.

3. If fraud or plagiarism are observed, the examiner will notify the

com-3.6 Sanctions when fraud and plagiarism are observed

1. In the event of fraud or plagiarism, the Committee has the power to impose the sanctions referred to in Section 7.12b of the WHW, or – in the even of serious fraud – to advise the Executive Board to refuse or instruct the refusal of the enrollment of the individual in question.

2. Depending on the seriousness of the fraud or plagiarism (including repeat offences of this nature), the Chairman of the Committee will impose sanctions on the applicant.

This may vary from a reprimand to exclusion from all assessments for a maximum of one year.

3.7 The Exam Committee for the 21+ Exam, the NT2 Exam and the Deficiencies Exam (the Committee)

If an applicant believes that a decision that has been taken or instructions that have been given are incorrect and detrimental to him/her, the ap-plicant must approach the Committee on this matter. Applications must have been submitted no later than 12 school working days after the date of the decision in question or of the instructions provided.

3.8 Hardship clause

All matters relating to rules on administering assessments that do not feature in these regulations will be at the discretion of the Committee.

ARTICLE 3

Rules on resits and passing 1. Result

a. The result of the Aptitude Test will be announced via the e-mail account that the applicant has with Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences no later than five school working days after the date on which the Aptitude Test was taken.

b. Assessment results will be announced in writing within 15 school working days of the date on which the assessment was taken.

c. If unforeseen circumstances arise the Exam Committee for the

21+ Exam, the NT2 Exam and the Deficiencies Exam can deviate from this period of time.

3. Resit

An applicant will be entitled to a maximum of one resit per assess-ment, except where determined otherwise by the Exam Committee for the 21+ Exam, the NT2 Exam and the Deficiencies Exam. The opportunity to do a resit will only be offered if the result attained is not satisfactory. If an applicant does a resit, the highest mark attained will apply.

4. Rules on passing