April 29, 2024
To : All MSc, MSc(EnvMan), MSTAT, MDASC and MSc(AI) students
2nd Semester Examination 2023-2024
With the end of semester examinations approaching, I wish to draw your attention to the following issues:
(A) Announcement of examination results
1. Examination results are expected to be announced via the SIS as below.
| Programme name | Publication of individual results via SIS |
| 1) Master of Statistics | June 13, 2024 |
| 2) MSc in Artificial Intelligence | June 14, 2024 |
3) Master of Data Science 4) MSc in the field of Food Industry: Management and Marketing 5) MSc in the field of Food Safety and Toxicology 6) MSc in the field of Applied Geosciences 7) MSc in the field of Physics | June 18, 2024 |
8) MSc in Environmental Management | June 21, 2024 |
(B) Illness during the examination period
1. If you are unable to attend any examination due to illness or believes that your health, either immediately before or during the examination, has significantly affected their performance, you should submit a Form of Medical Certificate. On the same day of the affected examination, the candidate should consult a doctor, complete Part I of the form, and provide it to the doctor for completion of Part II. The completed form, along with the original sick leave certificate issued by the attending doctor, must be submitted to the Examinations Office (Room 239B, 2/F, Main Building, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam) within seven calendar days of the examination in question. The Form of Medical Certificate can be obtained from the Examinations Office or downloaded from its website (http://www.exam.hku.hk/). Late or incomplete submissions will not be accepted.
2. Only those students who are permitted by the Board to take a supplementary examination will be individually informed of such an outcome. The Programme Team will arrange the supplementary examination as early as practicable, in consultation with the student concerned. Other students who are absent from examinations and are not permitted to take the supplementary examinations will result in an automatic failure in the examination component.
(C) Appeal of Examination Results
All examination papers are carefully marked by examiners and the results are duly approved by the Board of Examiners. The University’s position is that student appeals against examination results which are academic judgments are disallowed. However if students who wish to apply for checking of procedural irregularity or technical error of the assessment result should fill in an application form and send it to the Faculty Office within 14 days after the examination results are announced, i.e. on or before 11:59pm June 27, 2024 / 11:59pm June 28, 2024 / 11:59pm July 2, 2024 / 11:59pm July 5, 2024, if the examination results are announced on June 13 / June 14 / June 18 / June 21, 2024. Applications received after that date will not be considered. The application fee is HK$200 for each assessment result to be checked. Students have to submit one application form for each of the course to be checked together with the receipt of fee payment by email to scitpg@hku.hk. For details, please refer to the website: https://www.scifac.hku.hk/current/tpg/general
(D) Unsatisfactory Performance
Please note that students who do not perform satisfactorily may be required to discontinue from their studies in accordance with the following regulations and General Regulation G11.
MSc and MSc(EnvMan) Students
Sc32 A candidate who
(a) has failed to satisfy the examiners in more than half the number of credits of courses during any of the academic years or in any course at a repeated attempt, or
(b) is not permitted or fails to submit a new or revised dissertation or project report, or
(c) has failed to satisfy the examiners in their dissertation or project report at a second attempt, may be recommended for discontinuation of studies.
MStat Students
MS9. A candidate who
(a) during any academic year has failed in half or more than half the number of credits of all the courses to be examined in that academic year; or
(b) has failed at a repeated attempt in any course; or
(c) has exceeded the maximum period of registration may be required to discontinue his/her studies.
MDASC Students
MD 10. A candidate may be required to discontinue his/her studies if he/she
(a) during any academic year has failed in half or more than half the number of credits of all the courses to be examined in that academic year; or
(b) has failed at a repeated attempt in any course; or
(c) has exceeded the maximum period of registration.
MSc(AI) Students
MAI10. A candidate may be required to discontinue his/her studies if he/she
(a) during any academic year has failed in half or more than half the number of credits of all the courses to be examined in that academic year; or
(b) has failed at a repeated attempt in any course; or
(c) has exceeded the maximum period of registration.