SMU honours system - how are they remunerated at the public sector?

patryn33

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too bad then, walk into talk to them!
SMU itself also considered cum laude as 2nd lower at 1 point.
perhaps a good majority of students are getting cum laude at SMU so that is the case, but to make such claim with other
Uni such as Williams when only 35% of the students get cum laude and better; that is unfair to say they are 2nd lower. some Uni only top 25% gets cum laude or better.
 
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It appears that there are may be some serious misconceptions about our local universities' academic credibility.

From what I know, NUS and NTU students have an option known as S/U, where the student can declare a module to be taken on an ungraded basis, i.e. the module's grade does not count into their GPA or CAP. NUS may be using a retrospective system, meaning you declare S/U after the grade is released, and NTU may be using a prospective system where you declare in advance.

There is of course a limit to the number of modules you can choose to declare using the S/U option. But whatever it is, it means NUS and NTU students can effectively neglect the poor grades they score in those modules.

Whereas in SMU, there is not such thing as S/U. If you happen to score very badly for a module, your only way out is to work harder for your other modules. In this case, an A+ seems to be the logical reprieve. but is it? As far as I know, an A+ is given to a handful of very outstanding students in the cohort, and some profs can choose not to give A+ if they do not think any student is deserving of it.

So to claim that "SMU's A+ screws the system up" may be a grossly unfair statement.

It is as good as comparing apples to oranges, when you compare the 2 types of classification systems. The fact is, no matter which education system you come from. If you are a first class or a summa cum laude, you must have really deserved it, for you can never get lucky throughout your university life. Everyone who has gone through university knows that.
Ya in 3 modules that are not major modules...
 

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if you look at the graduation booklet, less than 30% of the graduates have cum laude or above.

for NUS/NTU, top 50% gets honours classification (by proceeding for honours year) but for SMU, less than 30% gets cum laude or higher classification.
 

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if you look at the graduation booklet, less than 30% of the graduates have cum laude or above.

for NUS/NTU, top 50% gets honours classification (by proceeding for honours year) but for SMU, less than 30% gets cum laude or higher classification.

good info.
any info on the distributions?
 

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good info.
any info on the distributions?

yes, I drew data from SMU School of Information Systems (SIS) graduation booklets of 2015 and 2016.

on careful observation you will notice asterisks(*) beside the student names, the number of stars is determined by their honors class, cum laude *, magna **, summa ***

I couldn't find out the number of enrolled students but out of the approximately 280 graduating students, 30 people have cum laude (10.7%), 15 have magna (5.3%) and 5 have summa (1.8%).

This results reveal that 17.8% of students graduate with honors.

https://sis.smu.edu.sg/sites/default/files/sis/pdf/events/commencement/Comm15_Progbook_SIS.pdf
https://sis.smu.edu.sg/sites/sis.sm...f/events/commencement/Comm16_Progbook_SIS.PDF
 
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yes, I drew data from SMU School of Information Systems (SIS) graduation booklets of 2015 and 2016.

on careful observation you will notice asterisks(*) beside the student names, the number of stars is determined by their honors class, cum laude *, magna **, summa ***

I couldn't find out the number of enrolled students but out of the approximately 280 graduating students, 30 people have cum laude (10.7%), 15 have magna (5.3%) and 5 have summa (1.8%).

This results reveal that only a shocking 17.8% of students graduate with honors.

https://sis.smu.edu.sg/sites/default/files/sis/pdf/events/commencement/Comm15_Progbook_SIS.pdf
https://sis.smu.edu.sg/sites/sis.sm...f/events/commencement/Comm16_Progbook_SIS.PDF

https://www.moe.gov.sg/docs/default...ions/education-statistics-digest/esd-2015.pdf

you should be able to find the total enrollment here
 
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