MINISTRY OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING THE SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM FOREIGN TRADE UNIVERSITY. Independence — Freedom — Happiness CREDIT AND GRADING SYSTEM 1. Module and Credit One credit is defined by 15 hours of theory; 30-45 hours of practical, experiment or discussion; 45-90 hours of internship; 45-60 hours of essay, assignment or graduation thesis. For theory, practical or experiment modules, students have to spend at least 30 hours self-preparation to acquire one eredit. ‘The president of university sets specific number of contacting and course hours for each module to suit the features of each university ‘A contacting-bour lasts 50 minutes. For the programs that amount of each module is counted of course units, 1.5 course units are converted into | credit, IL Assessment Student’s result is evaluated after each term by the following criteria: 1. The number of approved credits by which are registered at the beginning of cach term (referred as “the registered-credits”). During semester, if students are absent from any registered-modules, those registered-modules will be considered Fail. 2. Result of each module is converted into letter scheme according to regulate at Module Assessment. 3. The GPA of a semester is the weighted average of each registered-module in that semester with weighted credit number respectively with each module. 4. ‘The amount of accumulative knowledge is counted by total of eredits which were evaluated into letter scheme A, B, C, D from the beginning of the semester.5. The accumulative GPA is the average of all accumulative modules of student and is evaluated by A, B, C, D which is counted from the beginning of the term until the evaluating time at the end of the term. IH. Module Assessment 1 . Module result is the sum of each partial mark, weighted respectively. » Hoe AL THUG Assessment is based on 10-scale (from 0 to 10) and rounded to 1 decimal. ‘Module result is rounded to 1 decimat then converted into letter mark as: a. Pass: A(85~-10) High Distinetion B(70-8.4) Distinction CGS-69) Credit D (4.05.4) Pass F (below 4.0) Fail c. For those modules which haven't been issued with assessment to release final result, results will be shown as: 1 Not enough assessment X Exam result not received d. For those modules which are transferred from other programs, results will be marked with “R” in the transcript. IV. GPA L. To calculate terminal GPA and accumulative GPA, result in letter will be converted into scale of 4 as details: A is equivalent to 4 B is equivalent to 3 Cis equivalent to 2 Dis equivalent to 1 Fis equivalent to 02. ‘Terminal GPA and accumulative GPA are calculated as following, rounded to 2 decimals: Inwhich: ‘A: GPA (terminal or accumulative) ails result of module i ni is the number of credit of module i nis sum of modules GPA is used to ranked students” performance. V. DEGREE CLASSIFICATION Degree is awarded by the major (one or double degree). Class of degree is defined by the GPA of the course as following: a, b. °, es Honor : GPA from 3.6 to 4.0 High Distinction: GPA from 3.2 to 3.59 . Distinction: GPA from 2.5 to 3.19 |. High Average: GPA from 2.2 to 2.49 . Average: GPA from 2.0 to 2.19 Translation certified by Department of International Affairs Foreign Trade University Hang), 19!" March 2013 ° “VU BIGANG NAM (PhD) Manager