Dominican Institute, Nigeria

Student's Welfare
Examination And Moderation
External Examinations

Student Entitlements:

Students have a right to regular and competent instruction in all the courses provided for them. In case of lapses, the Institute shall take every measure within its means to remedy the lapse.

Students have consulting and borrowing rights within the limits set by the Library.

Students have the right to regular meetings with the moderator of their long essay. They also have the right to information on their academic progress, and to ask advice on the problems they may meet.

The students have the right and are encouraged to organise themselves for extra-curricular activities.

Students are selected by their peers to serve on the Students' General Council.

Disciplinary Measures:

The Dominican Institute reserves the right to impose appropriate sanctions on offending students, ranging from an ordinary reprimand to outright expulsion.

All cases of exam misconduct entail expulsion.

In matters of expulsion and disciplinary measures, resulting from examination misconduct, the President may not act without the recommendation of the disciplinary committee.

Disciplinary measures from other misconduct remain at the discretion of the President who must communicate his decision in writing to the student's religious formators, if the student has any.

Students faced with expulsion or any form of disciplinary measure resulting from examination misconduct may take their case to the Departmental Academic Board, with the understanding and undertaking to accept as final the decision of the Board.

Qualifications for exams

Students must have attended no less than 75% of the credit contact hours allocated to a course in order to qualify for the final examination in that course.

Failures
If a student fails more than two compulsory or required courses, he must repeat the whole year. If he fails a second time, he must withdraw.

General performance
A student who scores less than 50 in three courses in one semester will be given a warning letter that he/she must improve. If this happens in two consecutive semesters, the student will be asked to withdraw.

Marking and computation of results
30% of the mark is based on continuous assessment, that is, on term papers and other involvement in the course.
In the final year of the B.A. (Philosophy) students write a long essay under the supervision of a lecturer. This essay is marked by the supervisor and one other lecturer appointed by the H.O.D. The two then reconcile their marks. The H.O.D. may organize a brief oral defence which can raise or lower the mark up to 3 points.
The class of degree is determined by the cumulative Grade-Point Average = sum of grade points multiplied by their units, divided by total number of units. All courses, whether passsed or failed, are computed.

Score		U.I.C.G.P	U.I. C.G.P.A	Class
70% & +	A	7	6	First
65-69%	B+	6	4.6 - 5.9	2.1
60-64%	B-	5	4.6 - 5.9	2.1
55-59%	C+	4	2.6 - 4.5	2.2
50-54	C-	3	2.6 - 4.5	2.2
45-49	D	2	1.6 - 2.5	3
40-44	E	1	1.0 - 1.5	Pass
39 & -	F	0	0	Failure

The total number of units taken, along with the grades obtained in each course, shall be recorded for the purpose of computing the Cumulative Grade Point Average (C.G.P.A).

The degree shall be awarded with honours, provided a candidate obtains a C.G.P.A. that is not less than 1.6 and satisfies other minimum honours requirements. For the award of a Pass degree, a candidate must obtain the minimum number of units specified in [c] above and pass all the compulsory courses specified by the Department.

Examination misconduct
All cases of examination misconduct must be reported to the H.O.D., as Chair of the Disciplinary Committee. The Disciplinary Committee sits on the case and sends its findings to the Dean of Studies. Examination misconduct includes the following:

Use of scrap papers in the Examination Hall

Possession of D.I. examination answer sheets (whether used or unused)

Oral communications between examinees during an examination.

Passing of notes or other accessories to aid performance in an examination.

Smuggling of prepared answer sheet into an Examination Hall or submission of same under pretense that they were prepared in the examination hall.

Smuggling of unauthorised books into an examination hall

Possession or acquisition of a live-question paper before an examination is held.

Leaving the hall without the pemission of the invigilator.

Any act considered by the invigilator to be in violation of the integrity of the exam.

The Faculty of Arts on behalf of the Senate of the University of Ibadan, moderates the question papers and answers scripts of examinations, to be conducted twice annually, i.e at the end of each Semester, by the Institute

The Department of Philosophy, University of Ibadan, arranges and invites external examiners for the purpose of moderating of examinations written in philosophy Department of the Dominican Institute,Ibadan