Final Year Project (FYP)

Final Year Project (FYP)

For programmes under the School of Biological Sciences (AY2023 intake and before), a minimum CGPA of 4.50 and at least an 'A-' grade for the Final Year Project (FYP), are required for the award of an Honours (Highest Distinction) degree.

For programmes under the School of Biological Sciences (AY2024 intake and onwards), a minimum of CGPA of 4.50 and at least an ‘A-‘ grade for the Final Year Project (FYP), are required for the award of an Honours (Highest Distinction) degree.  A minimum CGPA of 4.00 and a ‘Pass’ grade for the Final Year Project (FYP), are required for the award of an Honours (Distinction) degree.

 AY2023 Intake and before

AY2024 Intake and onwards

 

  • a minimum CGPA of 4.50 and at least an ‘A-‘ grade for the Final Year Project (FYP), are required for the award of an Honours (Highest Distinction) degree.    

 

  • minimum CGPA of 4.50 and at least an ‘A-‘ grade for the Final Year Project (FYP), are required for the award of an Honours (Highest Distinction) degree.
  • minimum CGPA of 4.00 and a ‘Pass’ grade for the Final Year Project (FYP), are required for the award of an Honours (Distinction) degree.


FYP Important Deadline

  • Students must decide within the 1st 2 weeks of Year 3 Sem 2 if they want to do FYP in Year 4 Sem 1.
  • Students must decide within the 1st 2 weeks of Year 4 Sem 1 if they want to do FYP in Year 4 Sem 2.
  • Briefing in Jan for the May-Aug (BMS ​FYP) and Aug-Nov (BS/ABP FYP). Selection period in Mar for both.
  • Briefing in Jan for Bi-semestral FYP. Self-source of projects from Feb-Apr. 
  • Briefing in Aug for the Jan-Apr (BS FYP). Selection period is in Sep.

Bi-Semestral FYP

Starting from AY2022/23 Semester 1, BS and BSPY Year 4 students have the option to do Bi-semestral FYP (i.e. across 2 semesters) or 1 semester full-time FYP.

Eligibility for BS4021 Bi-Semestral FYP: All intake years for Bachelor of Sciences in Biological Sciences (including all 2nd major) and Double Major in Biological Sciences and Psychology. 
Respective course code to be registered:

Students doing Bi-semestral FYP are allowed to take maximum 3 courses (equivalent of 9AU) in a semester.

Students going on overseas exchange in one of the final year semesters are not allowed to register for Bi-Semestral FYP.

Students under ABP track are not allowed to take Bi-semestral FYP. Students will have to drop their ABP track if they want to register for Bi-semestral FYP.

Final Year Project (Overseas) * New

Students are allowed to do their FYP overseas.

  • Open to self-sourced FYP to overseas university.
  • Students are not required to go through a GEM programme or to be tagged to an exchange programme.

      i.  Self-sourced FYP procedures

Students who want to take up overseas FYP, they have to provide the below information to SBS - FYP enquires <[email protected] > for FYP coordinator’s approval.


Student’s name:

 

Student’s Matric ID:

 

Supervisor’s name:

 

Supervisor’s email:

 

Supervisor institute:

 

Project title:

 

Brief description of project:

 

Course code:

BS4020 (Full time FYP) or
BS4021 (Bi-semestral)

      ii. After gotten approval from FYP coordinator, students must provide /update the below documentation.

  1. Student’s updated indemnity form
  2. Updated Travel Declaration link
  3. Updated emergency contacts / next of kin contacts
  4. Ensure student is subscribed to ISOS for entire duration of immersion
  5. Certificate of Travel Insurance, student to refer to One Stop website see screenshot below.

Should you require the Certificate of Insurance (COI) for application purposes, please complete your travel details in the   COI Request template (download a copy) and send the completed form to  [email protected]. Please provide for  up to 3 working days for your COI to be sent by the insurer.

Visa procedures will be advised by your host university if they are willing to host you.

     iii. Notes:

  • Credit transfer from the host university for the FYP is not required – you will be registered under the course code BS4020 in NTU if your FYP (Overseas) is approved.
  • FYP (Overseas) report and presentation will be graded by SBS faculty, same as local FYP students, as well as the supervisor in the host university. It is up to you to ensure that this assessment is submitted on time, by stipulated deadline.
  • You are expected to attend the FYP presentation session in Singapore at the end of FYP (Overseas). If you are unable to return to Singapore in time, justification should be provided and we will arrange a video link for your presentation. The online presentation is subject to the approval from FYP coordinator.
  • FYP (Overseas) is  applicable for both Full time FYP (BS4020) and  Bi-Semestral FYP (BS4021).

FYP Safety Course

  • Students must complete the safety courses below before the start of their FYP project, depending on the nature of the project.

FYP Report Submission
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FYP report submission:  You must upload the final version of your thesis via the Turnitin plagiarism checker on  NTULearn. You are required to submit only the soft copy of your thesis at NTULearn. 
Finally, you must upload a softcopy of the final version of your thesis to the NTU Digital Repository for archiving with your supervisors permission:

  1. Go to the  NTU Digital Repository site.
  2. Click on Login, and log in using your student network account (note: do not use your full email address, i.e., omit the @ntu.edu.sg part, and do not specify an NT domain name, i.e., omit the STUDENT\).
  3. Click on "Start a New Submission".
  4. Select School of Biological Sciences , and follow the on-screen instructions to upload the thesis.
  5. In case of problems, please send an email to [email protected]