USM Thesis Help in Malaysia — Built Around the IPS Format Check, Not After It

The IPS format guide says the abstract is written in Bahasa Malaysia and English, with the Bahasa Malaysia version first and each version under its own title. It also caps the abstract at 400 words in one paragraph. If your School has told you something different in writing, follow that and keep the note, but the IPS guide is what the format check uses.

The IPS guide sets 2.5 cm at the top, bottom and right, and 4.0 cm on the left, on white A4 paper. Page numbers sit centred at the bottom. Most candidates who fail on margins have pasted in journal papers or used a template from another university, so we check every section break, not only the first page.

IPS does not mandate one style. The guide accepts APA, Harvard or MLA, chosen with your supervisor or from the reputable journals in your field, and then applied consistently. Most enquiries we get use APA 7th. The common fault is mixing styles across chapters, which we fix by converting every citation to the agreed style.

IPS asks for the notice to reach your School, Centre or Institute at least three months before you submit the thesis, approved by your supervisor and forwarded by your Dean or Director so examiners can be appointed. We can help get chapters ready during those three months, but the notice itself is yours to file.

IPS asks for draft chapters to be screened through Turnitin at your School, Centre or Institute. The School of Mathematical Sciences publishes an accepted similarity index of 25% or below. We have not seen a single figure for all Schools, so ask your own School's postgraduate office rather than relying on another School's number.

The submission steps published by USM Schools ask for both draft and final thesis PDFs to be password-protected with your student smart card number and sent by email. We prepare the PDF, but you set the password and send it. We never ask for your smart card number.

On the IPS scale, Scale 2 is a pass with minor corrections listed in the Viva-voce Panel Report, and Scale 3 is a pass with major changes that the panel must verify. Scale 4 is re-examination with a second viva, and Scale 5 is a fail. We help with corrections at Scales 2, 3 and 4.

The IPS format guide sets a ceiling of 80,000 words for a PhD thesis and 50,000 words for a master's thesis. These are maximums, not targets. If your draft is over, we look for repetition across the literature review and discussion first, because that is where most of the excess usually sits.

The final thesis steps published by USM Schools list proof of publication, such as the first page of a paper, an acceptance letter or a citation report, for students who started from Semester I of 2017/2018 onwards. The exact number and indexing depend on your programme, so confirm yours with IPS. Our journal team can help turn a chapter into a paper.

IPS asks for red hardbound covers with gold lettering for a master's thesis and black with gold lettering for a PhD. Two hardbound copies are produced after corrections are verified, each with a CD, one set for your School and one for IPS. We prepare the print-ready file; the binder and the submission are yours.

Yes. Some of our writers work in academic Bahasa Malaysia, and Bab 1 to Bab 5 requests in BM reach us regularly. The IPS formatting rules, margins and the two-abstract requirement still apply. Tell us the language your thesis was approved in before we start.

No. We are an independent service and have no affiliation with USM, IPS or any School. Everything on this page about IPS rules comes from documents USM publishes online, and we ask you to confirm anything your own School does differently.

We rewrite flagged passages by hand from your own notes and sources and keep the drafts so you can show your process. We do not promise a particular AI score, because detectors misfire on human writing too.