Grading System

Course grading

Students shall receive a grade for each registered course as per the following regulations:

A. Course Grade:

This refers to the grades received by students for any course.

Course grades are set according to the following scheme:

 

 

Students can check their grades through the website using their assigned registration number and pin code. The letters A, B, C, D, F, I, and W are used as follows:

·        A, B, C and D, and S are passing grades.

·        The total Marks of any course are out of 100. These marks are distributed between semester work (assignments and quizzes), midterm, oral, pre-final and final exam.

·        The least percentage to pass a course is 60%, (D) and the student fails if he/she gets less than 30% of the marks of the final written exam.

·        If a student fails to attend the final exam without excuse, his final Exam''s mark shall be zero.

 

General Grade

The points achieved by a student in any subject are calculated by multiplying the student’s grade in the course with the number of the credit hours of the course.

 

A student’s grade point average (GPA) is computed by dividing the total number of points by the total number of semester hours

attempted.

 

                                                                        Total Number of Points

Grade Point Average (GPA) =         _____________________________________________       

                                                               Total Number of Registered Credit Hours

 

The GPA ranges between 0 to 4.0.