In the fourth semester the students go back to their workplaces and apply the skills learned in the first
three semesters. At the end of the semester an on-job written report will be submitted by the students in
addition to the written appraisal by the designated supervisor/mentor. A joint agreement has to be made
with the supervisor/mentor and the faculty advisors at HSA prior to the beginning of the fourth semester.
This will be finally assessed by the senior faculty of HSA.
Fifty percent marks shall be reserved for the ongoing (formative) assessment and fifty percent for the
semester examination paper and dissertation (summative assessment).
Candidates obtaining less than 50% in any of the examinations will be deemed to have failed in that
paper/semester of the MSPH. A student failing in a paper (when scores of semester examination and
ongoing assessment are less than fifty percent), will be allowed to clear that paper in the supplementary
examination to be held within 3 months of the declaration of the result of the semester. However, a
student accumulating more than two failures at any stage shall cease to be a student of the University.
Each credit corresponds to 50 marks in the examination. 25 marks per credit are for the formative
(ongoing) assessment and 25 marks for summative (end semester exam) assessment. The distribution of
marks for each examination is as shown on the following pages.
