Your project is graded by your supervisor and the project moderator (you usually won't know who your moderator is). Supervisor and moderator produce a separate grade and report. Where the grades are close, they are usually agreed after discussion between supervisor and moderator. Where agreement isn't reached, a third reader is brought in. All dissertations are sent to the External Examiner (a Software Engineering academic in another University outside Ireland) along with their reports and grades.

Please note that you won’t receive feedback on how your dissertation is faring during the grading process.