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Promotion through Standardized International Examinations

Conditions and limitations:

Students who join PSU with a valid (less than two-years old) TOEFL, IELTS,
SAT, or IGCSE score will be placed according to the schema on the previous
pages.

IELTS/TOEFL-IBT cannot be used as entry criteria to promotion tests except in
the following circumstance. Any student with an official document which
satisfies the promotion score criteria, but is more than two years old will be
eligible to sit the promotion test, but will not be automatically promoted.

Only the ACADEMIC IELTS will be considered for exemption from any PYP
English course. The general IELTS is not accepted.

All submitted scores must be from a single test and presented on a single
document (no combinations of separate test scores will be admissible)

Only one submission of an international exam for the purposes of exemption will
be allowed per semester with a maximum of two submissions for the duration of
a student’s PSU career.

All IELTS certificates must be validated using the ‘IELTS Verification Service’

A student who has previously received an ‘F’ or a ‘DN’ grade in any PYP
English course at Prince Sultan University cannot promote out of that course
using international examinations.

IGCSE scores will be considered only if the student has satisfied the Ministry of
Education policy of a minimum twelve years of schooling.

Registering courses with IENG 001 and IENG 002:

Students who pass either IENG 001 or IENG 002 will be eligible to register CMP,
PDS, or PE courses. Students who are registered in both IENG 001 and IENG 002
will not be allowed to register for any other courses.

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