Exams

University exams are not much different from the other exams you have been writing since you were four years old, except that you have to work very hard. Know your study pattern and stick to it. I showed you how to calculate your GP in the previous section, but you can only calculate your GP in your first year. Even after calculating your GP and maybe it is 3.5 or whatever, it still doesn’t guarantee you’re going over to your second year. You can calculate your GP quite all right, but it will be useful only for the knowledge of it, and also to apply for scholarship but it is not even necessary for you to move into the next class (This applies to only pharmacy students. Other students make use of their GP).In Pharmacy department, your scores matter more than your grades. Let
me show you how your scores are calculated.



You can see that here is a slight difference between this table and the one above. This one contains scores. To explain this properly I will use the Maths courses as an example. You will do only 2 Math courses in your first semsester but you will do 2 more physics courses, 2 more general studies courses, 2 more biology courses and 2 more physics course in your second semester making it eight courses altogether for second semester i.e you don’t do any math course in second semester. Therefore, throughout your first year, you do a total of 2 maths, 4 physics, 4 chemistry, 4 general studies, and 3 biology courses. The average of the scores in each of the courses will determine whether you proceed to the next class. For example, in Maths, the scores were 75 and 64, giving a total of 139 and an average of 69.5. If the cut off for Maths is 50, you will know that you have passed Maths. The same applies to all other courses. In Biology for example, if your scores are 44, 25 and 50 for the three biology courses, the average is 39. If the cut off for biology is 40, you have failed biology and you will be asked to repeat first year while your mates advance to the next class.
But in a situation whereby you had 46, 30 and 50, the average is 42. If the cut off is 40, you will be allowed to go to second year, but you have to carry over the course in which you had 30 (which is an ‘F’). This is why you have to work hard to make your scores as high as possible, so that whatever the cut off may be, you won’t be in any trouble.