MODE OF ASSESSMENT:

A student’s performance is assessed in each registered course out of 100 percent marks. Mode of assessment is decided by the tutor and specified in the class schedule. It is communicated to the students on the first day of class.

ASSESSMENT GUIDELINES:

Assessment Schedule:

§           Individual courses will have its own design of assessment methods inline with the course objectives whereby the assessments will measure the overall program effectiveness. Hence, the course instructors will announce their assessment schedules pertaining to their units.

CONDUCT OF EXAMINATIONS

Final Examination

§           Final examination is based on comprehensive syllabus.

These examinations are conducted as per the pre-released schedules.

Re-Sit Final Examinations

§           Re-Sit Final examinations are based on comprehensive syllabus.

§           Re-Sit examinations are normally held after 1 week of declaration of first-sit results. Regular classes are not suspended for such examinations.

§           Only students with grade D who will benefit with grade improvement or students with grade F who benefit from re-sit, are allowed to re-sit the final examination, based on their performance in continued modes of assessments and a maximum of ‘B’ grade will be awarded.

§           These examinations are conducted as per the pre-released schedules.

GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS FOR CANDIDATES ARE MENTIONED IN THE STUDENT HANDBOOK.

POLICY ON MITIGATION

Plea for consideration of mitigating circumstances for Mid term / final examination (first sit)

If a student is unable to take a scheduled mid term/final first sit examination due to sickness, accident, death in family, a telephonic intimation of the circumstances must be made, by the student, his friend or relative before or on the day of the examination prior to its commencement to the Administration Department. A medical certificate attested by ministry of health, documentary evidence of the circumstances affecting the student must be submitted within 7 days of conduct of the examination. Appeals after the expiry of 7 days deadline will be considered as time barred.

Note : No mitigating circumstances will be considered for re-sit examination and students failing to undertake re-sit examination will have to repeat the course.

Cheating in Examinations

When a student is caught cheating in examination, the Head of Administration will call for a meeting of the special cases board of examiners [Head of Academics / Head of Programs] and place before it the facts of the cheating incident as reported by a invigilator in his/her incident report. The board will decide whether to mark the second exam answer script and/or recommend action.

Such decisions cannot be challenged or reviewed.

The following are the course of actions that may be recommended

a.      Warn student against future use of dishonest means, but impose no other penalty

b.      Record a mark of zero for the piece of assessed work or examination only

c.       Record a mark of zero for every assessment made within the course

d.      Record a mark of zero for every assessment mode for all course during the concerned academic year

e.      Debar from the University for the concerned academic year. Allow no reassessment or repeating course.

f.        Debar from the University. Allow no re-enrollment

RESULTS

The consolidated Results of the Academic Semester is normally declared within one week from the date of the last examination.  Students need to obtain the continuous mode of assessment marks from the concerned faculty before the commencement of the examination. It is the responsibility of the student to collect the grade report as a result of his/her semester examinations or check the University Portal for the same.

Appeal against marks / grade awarded:

A student may appeal against the grade awarded in the course only under the following circumstances:

§           Procedure is not in accordance with the current approved regulation

§           Material and significant administrative error has taken place

§           Unfair discrimination

§           Inconsistence decision

It is important for students to understand the status of grade assigned to each piece of assessment work. Faculty members make their judgment on individual student’s performance within the assessment regulations of a program, which outlines the objective of study and standards to be obtained. Assessment is a matter of judgment. Academic judgment of this type cannot be questioned or overturned. Disagreement with the marks itself is insufficient grounds for appeal.

Note: All appeals must be made within one working week of notification of results. Any appeal received after that day will be considered as time barred.

Appeal forms are available in the finance department. A fee of Dhs 100 needs to be paid for filing appeal for each course. In case an error is detected due to the University’s fault, the fee will be refunded.