DD306 - Living Political Lives - EMA Last Minute Submission Rules

I have been reading the Online EMA Guidelines

Link here online-ema-guidelines.pdf

What has become clear to me (but check this for yourself) is...... we have until 23:59 on the 30th to submit the final version without penalty - and until 23:59 on the 31st but with a 10% points deduction.

MY Submission timetable:

• 29th May - submit whatever I have, in whatever state it is.
• 30th May - 11:30 - submit hopefully finished version of EMA.
• 30th May - 23:00 - after re-reading, checking and if necessary changing stuff - final submission at 23:00, BUY ONLY is there is not a message that a penalty will be occurred.

Section 3.2 Says......

3.2     Penalty for late submission

Work received late but within 24 hours of the midnight grace period will be accepted 

for assessment but will be subject to a mark penalty. The penalty is a 10% points 

reduction or to a bare-pass level whichever gives the higher score (for example, 

where 40 is a bare-pass, 59 becomes 49 with the penalty, 45 becomes 40, 35 is 

unchanged).

If you have already made a submission before the end of the grace period, and then 

attempt another submission during the penalty period, the eTMA system will warn you 

that this later submission will attract the penalty. You will have the option of not 

continuing with the later submission if you don’t want your score to be subject to the 

penalty. If you continue with the later submission then the penalty will apply.

Right, lets get to this essay........