The Exams
Most of the students of HKUST are extremely intelligent and study very very hard. You'll find students in the library and the learning commons at all hours of the day and sometimes it almost becomes an issue to find a seat to study. For my management and marketing classes, the average exam score usually ranged between 75-85. Your grades will be based off of a bell curve and I've heard that if your score is around the average, your grade will be a C+, B-, or a B depending on the professor.
I found the best way to study for exams here is to study directly from the lecture slides and your class notes. Compared to exams in the US, there is a much less application of concepts. Exams rarely seem to deviate from the lecture material and in some courses, students don't even find the need to buy the textbook and study straight from their class notes. That being said, attending class seems to be more important here because sometimes professors will throw in questions that refer to a very specific topic they only mentioned in class. Professors will post their powerpoint slides on a website called "LMES" but the powerpoint slides are often incomplete versions of what they show in class. Most local students print out the lecture slides beforehand and add in their own written notes during lecture.
Attendance in class is usually mandatory and is marked by the TA or recorded using the digital Personal Response System (PRS) that you'll need to pick up at the beginning of the school year.
Click here for my post on the things I didn't expect from HKUST academics.
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