THE FINAL ASSESSMENT CONSISTS OF FIVE STEPS:
1- Submission, at least one week before the date of the exam, of an essay on a topic indicated by the lecturer and according to an evaluation framework provided by the lecturer
2- Written questions (closed and open answers) on the course syllabus for an extensive verification of the preparation on the course syllabus.
3- Oral discussion on the essay to verify the ability to produce, collect, organize, analyze, and critically interpret scientific literature
4- Oral discussion of the answers to the open question to assess the ability of the student in problem solving.

Stesp 1 and 2 will be done before the date of the exam. Steps 3-4 will be done the day of the exam.
Steps 1 and 2, will give a WRITTEN SCORE expressed aout of thirty. the student can improve by up to 4 points the WRITTEN SCORE with steps 4 and 5.

STEP 1: it will be assessed with a single grade expressed out of thirty (the "article" grade), obtained by summing the following scores:
0 to 5 points: Does the student address clearly what is the general concepts and impact of the topic addressed in the requested essay?
0 to 5 points: does the student address clearly the methodology?
0 to 5 points: does the student address correctly the physical principles of the methodology?
0 to 5 points: Are the main results summarized clearly?
0 to 5 points: are the graphical result interpreted correctly and clearly?
0 to 5 points: Is the terminology used in the report in general correct?

STEP 2: for each of the answers to the open questions, the following aspects will be assessed with a single grade ("problems" grade) expressed out of thirty , obtained by summing the following scores:
0 to 6 points: does the student have understood correctly the text?
0 to 6 points: does the student have stated clearly what principles should be used?
0 to 6 points: does the student implements correctly the principles to obtain equations for the solution ?
0 to 6 points: is the numerical result, when needed, correct?
0 to 6 points: does the student comment correctly the result obtained and, if needed, represent correctly them in graphical form?

Step 3: it will be assessed with a grade (the "test" grade) expressed out of thirty (the grade is equal to the number of correct answers, as the test consists of 30 questions).

The WRITTEN SCORE will be the average of the three previous grades, rounded to the nearest integer.

Steps 3 and 4 will count for an at most additional 4 points to be added to the WRITTEN SCORE and provide the FINAL SCORE