Topics, worked examples and key terms carry across offerings. Assessment weights and dates change between offerings, so confirm yours on the LMS. Last updated 12 August 2026.
Grouped by discipline. These are AskSia topic categories, not University of Adelaide faculties or departments.
Read from the published assessment table of [unknown] of the 15 courses. [unknown] of them carry at least one hurdle, marked below.
The course outline for the offering each guide names. Adelaide's assessment policy requires outlines to publish hurdle requirements and the threshold mark needed, so the outline is the reference for both the weights and the hurdle rows in our tables. Confirm your own offering on MyUni before exams.
A hurdle mandates a minimum performance on a task as a condition of passing the course. Policy caps them: no more than three hurdle tasks per course, none on a task worth less than 20 per cent, and the hurdle tasks together cannot exceed 60 per cent of the course, except in clinical practice. The outline must state the threshold mark.
SWOT Week, Study Without Teaching, is the week set aside immediately before the end of semester examinations, so the exam period begins as SWOT Week ends. Personalised exam timetables appear in the Student Portal on the date shown in the academic calendar.
Both are weighted by course units: each grade's point value, or each mark, is multiplied by the units for the course, summed across completed graded courses in the program, and divided by the total units. Non graded courses are excluded, and the published figure is truncated to two decimal places.
No. AskSia is not affiliated with Adelaide University. The guides are independent study materials written from each course's published information, and every assessment figure is tagged with the offering it was taken from.
Adelaide University Library does not provide past exam papers; papers go into the University records system for archiving, and for study purposes they may appear on MyUni for some courses and not others, with the course coordinator the person to ask. AskSia guides do not host papers. They give the exam format from the course outline, question type by question type, beside the weights, with a worked example marked step by step.
