I once had a class that was 50 % paper and 50 % final exam . We got the marked paper back after writing the exam . That was . fun . It happens , it ' s frustrating but it happens . I ' ve had professors take anywhere from one night that was amazing but a real rarity to over a month to mark assignments , papers , midterms etc . The only time I ever really saw a complaint go anywhere was a class where we had absolutely nothing 10 assignments over the course of the term , midterm etc marked and returned by the final exam . which was based on the unreturned assignments , but that was a pretty unique situation . There is a section on the uvic website can ' t link it at the moment because I ' m on mobile that talks about recommended deadlines for professors submitting final marks to the university following end of termfinal exam date but it doesn ' t have a deadline for when in term assignments need to be marked and returned