Marking Scheme for Full Report
Content
Description of content
Marks
Title
What you did?
/2
Objectives
What is supposed to be accomplished through an experiment?
Apparatus
Simple list of everything needed to complete the experiment
Materials
Simple list of everything needed to complete the experiment
Procedures
Describes the process in chronological order
Includes all the information necessary to carry out the experiment
May include diagrams / images to illustrate the apparatus used & how it was set up
Should be written as a description of “what you did”, not as a “set of instructions”
Results
Table 1
Table 2
/3
/5
Discussion
(Max 1 ½ page only, if exit that max, no mark will be given)
The first paragraph with One to three sentences to introduce what had been done
A brief explanation of concept used in the experiment
Explain how the result demonstrated these principles. Use the important data and results (Table) to demonstrate these principles.
Explain how the independent variables affected the dependent variables, you may use equations provided and show the dependent/independent variables.
Analysis of graph
Sources of error are offered that are consistent with the experimental results.
You may offer a suggestion for improving the experiment, but it must focus on the most prominent error and be consistent with the sources of errors.
Precautions
Citation
/15
Conclusions
Able to identify conclusion for the experiment
/1
References
Must have reference from book, journal or scientific article
Must be written in the proper format
/2
Format
Including saving format
/2
Total
/30
Plagiarism
Similarity of the discussion part of your report must be less than 20%
For not following this instruction,
-10