Are university students' grades of units of study rounded in Vietnam?

Are university students' grades of units of study rounded in Vietnam?

Pursuant to Article 9 of the Regulation on undergraduate education promulgated together with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT stipulating assessment and calculation of grades of units of study as follows:

1. For each unit of study, students shall be assessed via at least two component grades; for units of study equivalent to less than 02 credits, students may be assessed via one grade. Component grades shall be calculated on a 10-point scale. Assessment methods and grade weighting shall be provided for in the detailed outline of each unit of study. Online assessment may be employed if it is as honest, fair and impartial as direct assessment and shall contribute no more than 50% to total weighted grade of the unit of study; online defense and assessment of graduate projects and graduate papers may have higher weight under the following conditions:

a) A specialized council with at least 3 members shall take charge of the assessment;

b) The council members and student agree to carry out the defense and assessment online;

c) The online defense session is fully video and audio recorded and archived.

2. Students absent from an exam or assessment without legitimate reason shall receive a score of 0. Students absent for a legitimate reason may take the exam or assessment at another time and have the score recorded for the first time.

3. The grade of a unit of study shall be the total of all component grades multiplied by their corresponding weights, rounded to 1 decimal place and assigned a letter grade as follows, unless otherwise provided for in Point d of this Clause:

a) Level-based pass grades applicable to units of study counted towards the average grade include:

A: from 8,5 to 10,0;

B: from 7,0 to 8,4;

C: from 5,5 to 6,9;

D: from 4,0 to 5,4.

b) Non-level-based pass grade applicable to units of study not counted towards the average grade:

P: at least 5,0.

c) Fail grade:

F: under 4,0.

d) Some special cases of letter grades not counted towards the average grade:

I: incomplete grade due to permitted exam deferment;

X: incomplete grade due to insufficient data;

R: grade of unit of study which the student is exempt from taking and the credit(s) of which is/are recognized (hereinafter referred to as “exempted unit of study”).

4. Retaking of units of study, examination and retaking of units of study for grade improvement:

a) Students who fail a unit of study must retake the unit according to regulations in Clauses 1 and 2 Article 3 of this Regulation, unless otherwise provided for in Point dd Clause 5 of this Article; the grade of the latest time the unit is retaken is the official grade of the unit;

b) Students who pass a unit of study may retake the unit for grade improvement according to regulations of the training institution.

5. Training institution regulations shall provide for the following matters:

a) Organization of assessment of academic performance and experiences of students, including experiments, practicals, assignments and reports, which shall be considered a component of each unit of study;

b) Exam organization, including regulations on pre-exam study periods and exam periods, question sheet preparation, exam invigilation, marking, remarking (if any), script preservation, exam deferment and exemption from taking exams;

c) Organization of assessment of units of study, graduate projects, graduate papers, practicals, internships and other special units of study;

d) Any grade level higher than those provided for in Point a Clause 3 herein; application of more letter grades than those provided for in Clause 3 herein;

dd) Permission for retaking an exam and assessment of a component grade to pass a unit of study; in this case, the new grade of the unit of study shall either be D or C;

e) Permission for retaking units of study for grade improvement and rules for calculation of the official grade of a unit of study in case the new grade is lower.

6. Regulations of training institutions on assessment and calculation of grades of units of study must be in compliance with the following rules and requirements:

a) The regulations must be serious, impartial, reliable and honest;

b) The regulations must be fair to all students in one class, all classes, all courses and all modes of study.

Thus, university students' grades of units of study are calculated from total of all component grades multiplied by their corresponding weights, rounded to 1 decimal place.

When do university students receive an academic warning in Vietnam? 

According to Article 11 of the Regulation on undergraduate education promulgated together with Circular 08/2021/TT-BGDDT, stipulating handling of credit-based academic performance as follows:

1. At the end of each main semester, students will receive an academic warning in any of the following cases:

a) Total number of failed credits in the semester exceeds more than half of the number registered for the semester or total number of failed credits from the beginning of the course is more than 24;

b) Semester average grade is under 0,8 for the first semester of the course or under 1,0 for following semesters;

c) GPA is under 1,2 for first-year students, under 1,4 for second-year students, under 1,6 for third-year students or under 1,8 for the following years.

2. Students will be forced to leave school in any of the following cases:

a) Number of academic warnings or level of academic warning received exceeds the permitted amount/ level according to regulations of the training institution;

b) Study duration exceeds the amount of time mentioned in Clause 5 Article 2 of this Regulation.

3. Training institution regulations shall provide for the following matters:

a) Application of some conditions for academic warning and permitted number of academic warnings or academic warning level, which shall allow for no more than 2 consecutive warnings;

b) Procedures for academic warning and forced leave from school; and announcement of such measures to students;

c) Retention of accumulated study results in case of forced leave from school.

According to this Article, university students will receive an academic warning based on some of the above conditions in Vietnam.

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