Rules & Regulations
Final Exams
Requirements for Continued Candidature
Requirements for Graduation
Grade Range
Release of Examination Results
Rules for use of Calculators at Examinations
Past Examination Question Papers
Rules and Regulations
The MBA Programs Office has in place standard operating procedures to ensure that examination processes are conducted with utmost care and attention. Multiple levels of checks are built into the handling of examination answer scripts, marking and processing of marks and grades.
Students are expected to be familiar with examination rules and regulations before they take the examinations. These regulations can be found on the Registrar's Office website http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/event/exam.html. Students who flout examination rules will face disciplinary action.
In addition, please note the following:
- No re-schedule of the final examination is allowed if students leave the country without a valid reason and the Office permission.
- Students are responsible in ensuring that there are no examination clashes with modules taken in other faculties or planned business trips.
- Students who are medically unfit to attend the final examination must fill up the Special Consideration Form and the attending doctor needs to input his comments.
Students are required to submit this form to the Office within deadline as stipulated on the form. Do note that the date is set by Registrar's Office and is subject to change per semester.
- The Office does not encourage students to leave the country during examination week as stated in the timetable.
Students must bring their student matriculation cards to the examination venues for identification purpose. You are advised to bring along a jacket as the examination venues may be cold.
Final Examinations
Unless otherwise exempted by the School, a candidate must pass such examinations as may be prescribed by the MBA Programs Office.
Students who are absent from examinations without approval would be given an "F" grade.
Requirements for Continued Candidature
A candidate who fails a core module will have to re-take that module.
To remain in the program, a candidate MUST not:
(a) Fail in more than 8 modules credits (8MCs) throughout his or her course of study;
(b) Exceed the maximum period of candidature;
(c) Have a Cumulative Average Point (CAP) of less than 2.50 for two consecutive semesters or 3.0 for three consecutive semesters.
A student who fails to maintain the minimum CAP as stipulated will have his/her candidature terminated.
For any semester in which the candidate's CAP falls below 3.0, he/she will be issued a warning. If, in the following semester, the candidate's CAP again falls below 3.0, but above 2.5, he/she will be placed on probation.
Requirements for Graduation
The minimum CAP for fulfillment of the degree requirement is 3.0. A candidate who fails to maintain the minimum CAP of 3.0 at the end of the program will not be permitted to graduate.
A student may read more than the minimum number of modular credits. However, the grades of all of the modules shall be considered in assessing whether the student has met the degree requirement.
Grade Range
The grade range is as follows:
Grade Description Grade Point
A+ Excellent 5.00
A Excellent 5.00
A- Excellent 4.50
B+ Very Good 4.00
B Very Good 3.50
B- Very Good 3.00
----------------------------- minimum requirement for graduation
C+ Good 2.50
C Satisfactory 2.00
D+ Probationary Grade 1.50
D Probationary Grade 1.00
F Fail 0.00
Release of Examination Results
Students can obtain their detailed examination results through NUSPHONE (Tel: 6691 2166) and NUS Online Intranet, using their student PIN to access. The results will be available though NUSPHONE for 2 days and NUS Online Intranet for 7 days from the release of results.
http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/event/exam.html
Students must ensure that their mailing address is up-to-date as NUS Business School will use this address to post examination results' slips.
http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/edu/update-contacts.html
Rules for Use of Calculator
Please refer to the Examination Directory for more information.
http://www.nus.edu.sg/registrar/event/exam.html
Past Examination Question Papers
Copies past examination question papers are available at the Hon Sui Sen Memorial Library (HSSML) for reference. The recent past examination question papers are usually put under the red-spot reference by the middle of the following semester. http://www.lib.nus.edu.sg/hlb/index.html