Student Guide
The Colleges by-laws specified a set of rules and procedures to be followed. These are as follows:
ARTICLE-(31):
No student will be allowed to proceed to a specialization unless he passes pre-algebra, Key-board skills(Information Technology), English and achieves the required marks in TOEFL or IELTS and submits an application on the form designed for this purpose.
ARTICLE-(37):
The Assistant Dean for Students' Affairs prepares the registration plan and its procedures each semester and the student has to register by himself under the supervision of his Academic advisor.
Registration by proxy is not allowed under any circumstances. If a student is unable to register within the specified period due to any reason/s acceptable to the Dean of the College, he can do so within a maximum of one week from the start of teaching.
ARTICLE (43): Maximum and Minimum Credit Hours for each Qualification
Teaching in the colleges follows the Credit Hour System. The Credit hour is a unit of measurement for the determination of the weight of each course in an academic semester and it is equal to one theoretical lecture or two practical training lectures held in labs or workshops in a week.
ARTICLE (44):
Full-time students normal load must be minimum 12 credit hours and maximum 18 credit hours depending on his/her GPA. Student on first probation is not allowed to take more than 12 credit hours. Student on second probation is not allowed to take more than 8 credit hours.
The minimum credit hours per semester for a full-time student are 12 credit hours and 6 credit hours for the summer semester.
A full-time student can register for more than the specified minimum credit hours depending on his semester GPA according to the following:
A GPA of 3.00 to register for 15 credit hours after the approval of the academic advisor;
A GPA of 3.5 to register for 18 credit hours after the approval of the Assistant Dean for academic Affairs.
A part-time student can register for 6 - 9 credit hours each semester.
ARTICLE (44):
It is possible for the student to increase the number of credit hours specified by Article-43 within the limit of six credit hours not cumulative at maximum for each of the four levels or two courses.
ARTICLE (45):
It is possible for the student to increase the number of credit hours specified by Article(43) up to a maximum of SIX credit hours or TWO courses at each of the four levels .
ARTICLE (48): Grading Scale:
The following grading scale has been approved for use by the colleges of Technology and should be followed in assigning grades:
A student must earn a grade of C or better in all major (specialization) courses. A grade of C or better will be accepted for major electives (Department requirements). Grade D or better will be accepted for General Education courses (College requirements) only.
ARTICLE (51): Academic probation:
Students are placed on academic probation if their semester grade point average for any semester falls below the required average of 2.00.
ARTICLE (53):
If a student scores a D or an F grade while studying a course for the first time (s) he can repeat the course to get a better grade. In that case the new grade alone will be taken into consideration irrespective of the fact whether it is higher or lower than the previous grade.
If a student repeated a course three times or more the second trial and the succeeding ones will be considered on GPA basis.
The credit hours substituted due to repetition of a course should not exceed 9 credit hours for Diploma, 12 credit hours for Higher Diploma and 15 credit hours for Baccalaureate.
ARTICLE-(59):
A course is a subject or unit to be delivered in one semester.
ARTICLE-(60):
A student's marks for each course will be determined by continuous assessment both practical and theoretical to be conducted in class, periodic tests, projects and assignments and final exam.
ARTICLE-(61):
Final exam is a comprehensive exam to be held at the end of each semester and set according to the specifications determined by the Quality Assurance Committee.
ARTICLE-(62):
The final mark for each course is out of 100 and to be rounded off to the nearest whole number and is made up of class-work. The marks allocated to Quizzes, oral exams, assignments, home-works and projects should not exceed 30% of the final mark.
ARTICLE-(63):
Final mark for any course is the mark which reflects a student's achievement in a course and it represents the total marks of the semester work and the final exam.
ARTICLE-(64):
The semester GPA equals the average marks in all courses studied by the student during a semester and is calculated in the same way as the Cumulative GPA.
ARTICLE-(65):
Cumulative GPA for a student is the average mark-score in all courses studied till the date of calculating the GPA irrespective of pass or failure in the incomplete courses when calculating the Cumulative GPA. If a student sat the resit exam, the incomplete slot/s would be replaced by the mark scored.
Cumulative GPA is calculated by multiplying the marks scored by the student in the number of credit hours of the course and then the marks are added and the total is divided by the total number of credit hours for all courses which have marks.
Courses whose results are pass or fail are not to be included while calculating the cumulative GPA. Decimals in the Cumulative GPA are rounded to the nearest hundredth.
ARTICLE-(66):
Cumulative GPA applies to all academic levels each one separately.
ARTICLE-(67):
A student will be considered pass in all levels if he completes all courses required for graduation and achieves the following cumulative GPAs.
First Year: Certificate-(2.00).
Second Year: Diploma-(2.25).
Third Year: Higher Diploma-(2.5).
Fourth Year: Baccalaureate-(2.75).
No student will be provided with a certificate which shows his success unless he successfully completes the practical training period specified for each level.
PROCEDURES:
Appeal procedure:
ARTICLE-(68):
A student could appeal against his result in an exam by submitting an application to the Head of Department on the form prepared for that purpose within three days from the date of announcement of the results. The exam committee has to recheck the papers within one week from the date of submission of the appeal to make sure that the addition of marks is correct and to mark unmarked questions if some are there.
Warning:
ARTICLE-(69):
A student will be warned and his father informed if his absence without an acceptable reason in a course reaches 10% of the total number of hours assigned to that course during a semester. The same procedure shall be followed if 20% 'absence' is reached. In both the cases, the student needs to be warned and his father informed that the student will not be allowed to attend the final exam, if his 'absence' reaches 30%.
ARTICLE-(72): Dismissal from the college:
A student shall be dismissed from the college:
if (s)he fails to: