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h. Students are not allowed to wear any jewellery such as necklace or bracelet that will
affect their safety.
i. Male students should keep their hair short. Female students with long hair should tie
up their hair at the back of their head.
j. Students should always be neat and tidy.

7.4 IMPLEMENTATION OF LABORATORY WORK

The purpose of laboratory work is to increase student’s understanding on the course thought.
A number of laboratories were developed to cater the demand for the courses. In general,
the conduct of the laboratory is parallel to the course registered on that particular semester.

7.4.1 LABORATORY WORK CONCEPT

Each laboratory session is conducted in a period of 14 weeks. During the first week, student
will be briefed on the content and how the laboratory will be conducted. Some of the content
during the orientation (1 week) period are as follows:
a. Name of laboratory station and how the experimental will be conducted.
b. Number and name of experimental work to be carried out.
c. Brief explanation of the laboratories work.
d. Group formation.
e. Format of report writing and marking scheme.

However, there are two approaches of laboratory work which are prescriptive laboratory
work and open-ended laboratory work. For prescriptive laboratory activities, the students
are provided with complete laboratory sheet and are fully guided by the lecturer or the
instructor during the laboratory session. Prescriptive laboratory work will be conducted for
diploma laboratory courses. Meanwhile, bachelor laboratory courses will implement open-
ended approach. In this approach, the students will be given a very minimum guidance from

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