The Federal Polytechnic Bauchi is set to execute the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE's) grading system for polytechnics known as Standardized Unified Grading System, powerful from first semester 2017/2018 academic session.

The new evaluating system which is operational in for all polytechnics and across the nation over influences students who are right now in ND1, Diploma 1 and HND 1, inferring that ND2, Diploma2, and HND2 are not influenced by this improvement.

Points of interest of the Standardized Unified Grading System are as per the following:

75% and above. =A.

70%– 74% =AB

65%– 69% =B

60%– 64% =BC

55%– 59% =C

50%– 54% =CD

45%– 49% =D

40%– 44% =E

Underneath 40. =F

What's more, the Standardized Unified Classification of Diplomas is as hence:

3.50 and above =Distinction

3.00– 3.49. =Upper Credit

2.50– 2.99. =Lower Credit

2.00– 2.49. =Pass

Talking amid a sensitization address sorted out for a scholarly staff of the Polytechnic, the Rector Arc Sanusi Waziri Gumau said there was the requirement for staff to best up to the new reality and conform to the order of the NBTE to stay away from punishments.

The Rector utilized the event to charge students, particularly those in ND1, Diploma1, and HND1 to intensify exertion and buckle down keeping in mind the end goal to be effective in their studies and implored God to see them through in the prospective examinations.