All students must conduct themselves in a proper manner and observe all the rules and regulations governing the examination. Failure to comply with any of the rules and regulations will render students liable to disciplinary action. Any attempt to cheat will be referred to the Polytechnic Student Disciplinary Committee (PSDC). Punishment includes suspension or even expulsion from the Polytechnic.

To minimise disruptions, students are advised to use the washrooms prior to the start of the examinations. Students should enter the examination venue at 8.40 am (morning session) and 2.10 pm (afternoon session) and be seated by 8.50 am or 2.20 pm. Students who arrive after 8.50 am (morning session) or 2.20 pm (afternoon session) will be allowed to enter the examination venue only at 9.00 am (morning session) and 2.30 pm (afternoon session) when the examination starts.

Latecomers arriving 45 minutes after the examination has commenced will not be allowed to sit for the examination. No student is allowed to leave the examination venue during the first 60 minutes after the start of the examination and during the last 10 minutes of the examination.

Do not smoke, drink or eat in or near the examination venues; do not communicate by word of mouth or otherwise with other students during the examination. Students are required to be properly and decently dressed in the examination venue.

Place the student card on the right hand corner of the desk for identification. If the student card is lost, student is required to report to the Student Services Centre (SSC) at the Atrium as soon as possible for a replacement (charges apply). Students without photo identification documents will have their photograph taken at the examination venue, Their photograph will be sent School/Division for verification.

Students are only allowed to use calculators with no communication, text–editing or programming capabilities during the examinations. Students are not allowed to use electronic dictionaries/translators and Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) during examinations.

Do not bring into the examination venue any equipment, book, paper, written document or drawing, unless authorized to do so. If students are found handling unauthorized materials, including calculators with written notes/formulae, these will be confiscated and students will be referred to the PSDC. If students have inadvertently brought any unauthorized material into the examination venue, they are required to surrender it immediately.

Students are advised to check the question paper to ensure that the correct and complete set is given with no missing pages. Students are reminded to write the Question No. in the 'Questions Attempted' column on the cover page of the answer book.

On completion of the examination, students are not permitted to remove any written paper, unused stationery or any materials supplied for use in the examination except the question paper. If students should remove any answer book or paper from the examination venue, the answer book/paper will not be accepted for grading.

All students must conduct themselves in a proper manner and observe all rules and regulations governing the examination. Students who fail to comply with any of the rules and regulations will be liable for disciplinary action. Where the PSDC is satisfied that a student has breached any provision of the Rules and Regulations, the student will be deemed to have committed an offence and the PSDC will take action as deemed fit. Punishment includes suspension or even expulsion from the Polytechnic.

Attendance at the semestral examination is compulsory. A student who is absent throughout the whole examination period, without permission (i.e. absent from all module examination papers for which the student is required to sit) shall be deemed to have sat and failed the examinations and shall not be permitted to continue the course.

If a student is unable to attend an examination due to sudden illness, a valid Medical Certificate (MC) (from a Government Doctor or registered Medical Practitioner) covering the day of the examination must be submitted within 48 hours to your School/Division Director, failing which, the MC will not be considered. MCs issued after the date of absence of examination are not acceptable. An exception is hospitalisation cases where the MC must be submitted within 48 hours after discharge from hospital.

If absence is due to any emergency or other unavoidable circumstances, the student must set out all the relevant circumstances which prevented his attendance and forward documentary evidence in support of his explanation, also within 48 hours, to his School/Division Director.

Absence from examinations is classified under three categories. The policy for dealing with each category is as follows:

Category A – Absence Without Valid Reason

• Students who are absent from an examination without reason are deemed to have failed even if they have obtained 50 marks or more for the module from the coursework component alone;
  
• This failed module will be included in the computation of the Grade Point Average (GPA).

Category B – Absence With Valid Reasons

Category C – Special Cases

The examination in each module may include written, oral and practical tests.

The pass mark for any graded module shall be 50%. The following grades will be awarded for passes in modules in the semestral examination both for first and repeat attempts :