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• Part-Time
  Enrolment status determined on the basis of enrolment per semester for semesters 1 and 2. Less than 37.5 points in either semester would usually constitute a Part-Time enrolment.
• Part-Time Student
  A student who undertakes less than the Full-Time study program.
• Pathway
  A path or sequence of learning or experiences that can be followed to attain competency.
• Performance Examination
  An Examination in which the student's proficiency in performance, particularly in relation to music and dance, is examined.
• Performance/Presentation
  A set task to be prepared outside of class time and then delivered by a pre-determined set date (and time) outside class time. (See section 22 of the Assessment Policy).
• Plagiarism
  Plagiarism is the act of representing as one's own original work the creative works of another, without appropriate acknowledgment of the author or source. The following are examples of plagiarism where appropriate acknowledgement or referencing of the author or source does not occur: Copying directly (or allowing to be copied) paragraphs, sentences, a single sentence or significant parts of a sentence. An end reference without quotation marks around the copied text may also constitute plagiarism; Copying ideas, concepts, research results, statistical tables, computer programs, designs, images, sounds or text or any combination of these; Paraphrasing of another's work closely, with minor changes but with the essential meaning, form and/or progression of ideas maintained; Relying on a specific idea or interpretation that is not one's own without identifying whose idea or interpretation it is; Cutting or pasting statements from multiple sources or piecing together work of others and representing them as original work; Presenting as independent, work done in collaboration with other people (eg, another student, a tutor); Submitting, as one's own, all or part of another student's original work; Preparing an original and correctly referenced assignment and submitting part or all of the assignment twice for separate subjects or marks; Cheating in an exam, either by copying from other students or by using unauthorised notes or aids.
• Points
  Means Credit Points.
• Polytechnic
  An institution in some countries offering vocational or higher education courses in technical areas.
• Practical Examination
  An Examination in which a student's proficiency in performing a process or action, particularly in relation to the sciences and health sciences, is examined.
• Prerequisite
  Knowledge, usually expressed in terms of a subject or subjects that must be completed if a student wishes to enrol in a particular subject.
• Presentation
  See Performance/Presentation.
• Professional Entry Program
  Graduate professional degrees which qualify students for initial professional registration and employment and/or provide a pathway to further study, including higher research degrees, e.g. Master of Teaching.
• Program
  The term is often used generally to cover a course or streams within a course, it also has the specific meaning of a recognised coherent cluster of subjects within a course for which there are particular structural requirements specified (e.g. compulsory core subjects, sequencing of subjects). It may also be used to cover a part of a course, for example honours in a bachelor degree.
• Prospective Student
  A student who is considering applying, or who has applied for a place in a degree at the University of Melbourne but has not yet been made an offer.

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• Raw Score
  See Score.
• Reading Time
  A period of time before the start of the Examination during which students may read the examination paper but may not begin to answer the examination question (e.g. by writing notes or answers or using calculators). See also Examination Commencement Time
• Reasonable Adjustment
  An adjustment is a measure or action taken to assist a student to participate in education and training on the same basis as other students. An adjustment is reasonable if it achieves this purpose while taking into account the student's learning needs and balancing the interests of all parties affected, including those of the student with the disability, the education provider, staff and other students. The University is required to provide reasonable adjustments to students experiencing Disability, but extends this concept to all students experiencing Academic Disadvantage for the purposes of this policy.
• Recognition of Prior Learning (RPL)
  Acknowledgement of a person's skills and knowledge acquired through previous training, work or life experience, which may be used to grant Credit in a subject.
• Refund
  Process where any fees or student contribution paid by the student are repaid to the student.
• Requisite
  A general term indicating something required before enrolment in a given subject or program can be approved. Examples include prerequisites and subject coordinator approval required to enrol.
• Research degree
  A graduate degree in which the research element constitutes 66% or more.
• Resolution on Selection
  Entry requirements for individual or groups of courses, decided by the Academic Board. Details on the resolutions on selection into individual courses are published on the Academic Board web page at http://www.unimelb.edu.au/abp/rs.html.
• Results Release Date
  The particular date in each Teaching Period on which final results for subjects undertaken in that Teaching Period are released to students.
• Return of Results
  The day by which results have to be submitted within the Student System by teaching departments.