GEOL2025 – PETROGRAPHY
Categorizing student performance levels
GEOL2025 - PETROGRAPHY
Excellent is the performance expected of students gaining a first class module mark.
Typical is the performance currently expected of students at the Lower/Upper Second
class boundary for the module. Threshold is the minimum performance currently
required to pass the module.
Definitions
Practical Skills
Communication
skills
Excellent performance
Highly developed ability
to describe and name
mineral and rock hand
specimens
Highly developed ability
to make well-labelled
technical drawings of
rocks in thin section
Well developed ability to
make accurate and
detailed observations of
minerals, recognising
their optical properties,
and to recognise and
record textures within the
rocks.
Able to write a wellstructured and clear
report on the specimens
provided
Typical performance
Ability to describe and name
mineral and rock hand
specimens
Ability to make welllabelled technical drawings
of rocks in thin section
Ability to make accurate and
detailed observations of
minerals, recognising their
optical properties, and to
recognise and record
textures within the rocks.
Able to present report on
specimens provided
Threshold performance
Basic ability to
describe and name
mineral and rock hand
specimens
Basic ability to make
technical drawings of
rocks in thin section
Basic ability to make
accurate and detailed
observations of
minerals, recognising
their optical properties,
and to recognise and
record textures within
the rocks.
Basic ability to write
about specimens
provided