Student advising is a necessary service in any university
where it guides the student on the best methodology of
taking courses in an efficient way. The main aim is to assist
the academic advisors in concluding their tasks where it
allows students to optimize the available list of courses
suitable for them to maintain effective education. Also, as
part of advising process, students seek information about
individual courses core and electives where the objective to
get an insight towards improving their Cumulative GPA.
Few attempts tried to cover this automation of advising
functionality. For example, Scott Murray et al [1], proposed
a decision support system for academic advising where they
concluded that students managed to use the system
successfully without the need of human advisor. Feghali et
al [2] also implemented an online, web based DSS tool to
aid academic advisors where statistical resulted in 79% of
users were satisfied with the system and 90% regarded it as
effective and efficient. Young-Jones et al [3] also conducted
a survey on students to explore their expectations and
experience when consulting advisors. The outcome was that
a further study would be necessary to develop the concept
and practice quality advising to meet student expectation
and success. Thomson et al [4] investigated the utilization
of online advising program with satisfaction of advisors
rather than students. It also tries to measure the students’
motivation to matriculate based on advisor satisfaction. The
outcome of the study was that online advising would not
replicate the encouragement factor found in face-to-face
advising. This paper proposes to cover an approach at
different angel of advising. On the top of traditional
advising operations like optimizing on the course
registrations, many students would also be interested in
grading outcome from this selection based on some
historical data. For example, many students would raise the
question: “How easy to get an “A” in this course?”
Currently, this is usually done in a face-to-face advising
with students where indicator can be concluded based on
some statistical data of previous students taking that course.
Even during admission of new students a similar query
could be raised when student is worried about his/her
possible success in that specific school or department. This
paper tackles this specific issue where a Genetic-Fuzzy
approach termed as GFT (Genetic Fuzzimetric Technique)
used to provide such service to students. Based on historical
data available in the university and the student specific
performance level like English Exam, High School and
sophomore exam, the proposal focuses to guide newly
admitted students with their cumulative GPA expectation at
the time of graduation. The first prototype to automate this
advising function was done by Kouatli et al [5].