Passing Grades File

Collection of Passing Grades for the Key

Beginning Level Courses for
Undergraduate Students

Ministry of Education, 2022

 DISCLAIMER!

Ministry of Education will not bear

responsibility for changes/typos in

the passing grades, the students are

responsible for keeping track of the

passing grades.
How to find passing grades?
You are always welcome to email or visit your
academic advisor to find out the passing grades.
Program directors (e.g. Galiya Sagyndykova for SSH)
can also help you with the questions. Lastly, you can
email the Department Chair of your major and raise
the questions.

Generally, you can find the passing grades by looking

at the course list with requirements that is posted
every semester before the registration. Many
courses require prerequisite, and these are the
passing grades.

However, many majors also have exception (e.g.

Mathematics) and you have to have certain grades to
depending on the next course and your major.
Therefore, please look at the academic handbook.

Major declaration
If major declaration is relevant to you, we kindly ask
you to read the conditions for declaring a major in
the academic handbook applicable to your year of
admission, which is available here.
SG Ministry of Education will not bear responsibility for changes/typos in the passing
grades, the students are responsible for keeping track of the passing grades.

School/Depart
# Name Grade distribution for Fall 2021* Passing grade
ment

As a general elective: D SSH,

1 BIOL 101 Declaration of Biological
Biological Sciences: C Science

As a general elective: D
SSH,
For BioSc. Students
2 BIOL 105 Biological
matriculated in 2020
Science
and after: C-

As a prerequisite:
Graduate
B- (for FIN 201)
3 BUS 101 n/a School of
C- (for BUS 420)
Business, GSB
As a core course: D

As a prerequisite*: C
*Chemistry dep tells it
is
SSH,
4 CHEM 101 “C-”, however, we
Chemistry
believe it is C. Please,
check with your advisor

As a general elective: D
As a prerequisite*: C
SSH,
5 CHEM 102 Declaration of
Chemistry
Biological Sciences: C

As a prerequisite*: C
*Chemistry dep tells it
SSH,
6 CHEM 211 is “C-”, however, we
Chemistry
believe it is C. Please,,
check with your advisor

As a prerequisite: C- SEDS,
7 CSCI 111 As a general elective: D Computer
Science

* https://ie.nu.edu.kz/ira/grade-distribution/
SG Ministry of Education will not bear responsibility for changes/typos in the passing
grades, the students are responsible for keeping track of the passing grades.

As a prerequisite: C-
SEDS,
Declaration of Physics:
8 CSCI 151 Computer
C-
Science
As a general elective: D

SEDS,
As a prerequisite: C-
9 CSCI 231 Computer
As a general elective: D
Science

SEDS,
As a prerequisite: C-
10 CSCI 235 Computer
As a general elective: D
Science

As a general elective: D
As a prerequisite*: B- SSH,
11 ECON 101
Declaration of Chemistry
Economics: B-

As a general elective: D
As a prerequisite*: B
SSH,
12 ECON 102 Declaration of
Chemistry
Economics: B-

As a general elective: D
SSH,
13 ECON 120 As an economics major
Chemistry
or minor elective: C

SEDS,
As a general elective: D
14 ECON 201 Computer
As a prerequisite: C-
Science

SEDS,
Mechanical
15 ENG 100 As a general elective: D
and Aerospace
Engineering
SG Ministry of Education will not bear responsibility for changes/typos in the passing
grades, the students are responsible for keeping track of the passing grades.

SEDS,
As a prerequisite: C- Electrical and
8 ENG 101
As a general elective: D Computer
Engineering

SEDS,
As a prerequisite: C- or
Mechanical
9 ENG 200 D
and Aerospace
As a general elective: D
Engineering

SSH, History,
As a prerequisite: B- or
Philosophy
10 HST 100 C or C-
and Religious
As a general elective: D
Studies

SSH, Kazakh
As a prerequisite: C-
11 KAZ 201 Language and
As a general elective: D
Turkic Studies

SSH, Kazakh
As a prerequisite: C-
12 KAZ 202 Language and
As a general elective: D
Turkic Studies

As a general elective: D
Declaration of
Mathematics:* B

*Before the final exams of

the fall semester of the
year 2, a student must
have an average GPA of at
least 3.0 in Calculus 1 and
SSH,
13 MATH 161 2 in order to declare
Mathematics.
Mathematics

Declaration of Biological
Sciences: C
Declaration of
Economics: B-

As a prerequisite: B- or C
or C- or D
SG Ministry of Education will not bear responsibility for changes/typos in the passing
grades, the students are responsible for keeping track of the passing grades.

As a general elective: D
SSH,
8 MATH 251 As a prerequisite: C or
Mathematics
C-

As a general elective: D
SSH,
9 MATH 263 As a prerequisite: C or
Mathematics
C-

As a general elective: D
SSH,
10 MATH 273 As a prerequisite: C or
Mathematics
C-

SSH, History,
Philosophy
11 PHIL 210 As a general elective: D
and Religious
Studies

As a general/social
12 PHYS 161 SSH, Physics
science elective: D

SSH, Political
As a general/social Science and
13 PLS 100
science elective: D International
Relations

SSH, Political
As a general/social Science and
PLS 101
science elective: D International
Relations
SG Ministry of Education will not bear responsibility for changes/typos in the passing
grades, the students are responsible for keeping track of the passing grades.

SSH, Political
As a general/social Science and
8 PLS 102 n/a
science elective: D International
Relations

As a prerequisite: C- SSH, Political

Declaration of PSIR: C Science and
9 PLS 120
As a general/social International
science elective: D Relations

As a prerequisite: C- SSH, Political

Declaration of PSIR: C Science and
10 PLS 140
As a general/social International
science elective: D Relations

SSH, Political
As a prerequisite: C-
Science and
Declaration of PSIR: C
11 PLS 150 International
As a general/social
Relations
science elective: D

As a prerequisite: C-
SSH,
Declaration of SOC: C
12 SOC 101 Sociology and
As a general/social
Anthropology
science elective: D

SSH,
As a prerequisite:
Communica-
13 WCS 150 B (for WCS 390) or C- As a
general elective: D
tion and
Composition

SSH,
As a prerequisite: C- Communica-
WCS 200
As a general elective: D tion and
Composition
SG Ministry of Education will not bear responsibility for changes/typos in the passing
grades, the students are responsible for keeping track of the passing grades.

As a prerequisite:
B+ (for WCS 390)
SSH,
C or C- for other higher
Communica-
8 WCS 210 WCS courses
tion and
As a general elective: D Composition

As a prerequisite:
B+ (for WCS 390) SSH,
C or C- for other higher Communica-
9 WCS 230
WCS courses tion and
Composition
As a general elective: D

References
Office of the Provost. (2022). Undergraduate Grade Distribution Reports. Institutional
Effectiveness. Retrieved October 5, 2022, from https://ie.nu.edu.kz/ira/grade-
distribution/undergraduate-grade-distribution/

Office of the Registrar. (2022). Course list with requirements. Registrar. Retrieved October 6,
2022, from https://registrar.nu.edu.kz/course-requirements
 Contacts of Departments
Department Person to contact

Your Academic Advisor - they should be the first person to

Any school
contact, they are indicated in your registrar account

GSB Jennifer Lewis - jlewis@nu.edu.kz

Biological sciences Christian Schönbach- christian.schoenbach@nu.edu.kz

Chemistry Vesselin N. Paunov- vesselin.paunov@nu.edu.kz

Computer Science Ben Tyler - btyler@nu.edu.kz

Economics Dana Bazarkulova - dana.bazarkulova@nu.edu.kz

Mechanical and
Essam Shehab - essam.shehab@nu.edu.kz
Aerospace Engineering

Electrical and
Almas Shintemirov - ashintemirov@nu.edu.kz
Computer Engineering

History, Philosophy
Siegfried Van Duffel - siegfried.vanduffel@nu.edu.kz
and Religious Studies

Kazakh Language and

Uli Schamiloglu - uli.schamiloglu@nu.edu.kz
Turkic Studies

Mathematics Zhibek Kadyrsizova - zhibek.kadyrsizova@nu.edu.kz

Physics Anton Desyatnikov - anton.desyatnikov@nu.edu.kz

Political Science and

Alexei Trochev - atrochev@nu.edu.kz
International Relations

Sociology and
Gavin Slade - gavin.slade@nu.edu.kz
Anthropology

Communication and
Karie Pieczynski- karie.pieczynski@nu.edu.kz
Composition
Special thanks to AAO and faculty
members for their help in creating
this file

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