S.L. 327.303 Art. 7Admission and special course requirements.

(1) To be registered as regular students in the course applicants shall, apart from satisfying the general requirements for admission as specified in the Admission Regulations, be in possession of the following special course requirements:

(a) up to October 2006, a pass at Advanced Level in Chemistry at grade D or better; as from October 2007, a pass at Intermediate Level in Chemistry at grade C or better; and

(b) a pass in the entrance examination organized by the Institute, which shall be designed to test the manual and intellectual aptitude of applicants and, in particular, their ability to pursue the area of study of their choice with profit.

(2) Applicants who possess a pass at Advanced Level in Chemistry at grade E or, as from October 2007, a pass at Intermediate Level in Chemistry at grade D, shall be admitted under those conditions as the Board of Studies may impose to compensate for the qualification deficiency. If, by the end of the first year, such students do not successfully complete all the requirements to progress regularly to the second year of the course, they shall neither be entitled to repeat the year nor to progress conditionally as normally permitted under the Principal Regulations.