Important Features of Examination Regulation For

IMPORTANT FEATURES OF EXAMINATION REGULATION FOR

UNDER GRADUATE REGULAR COURSES (UNDER CBCS)

1. Three year Degree Examinations in Arts, Science & Commerce.

A candidate admitted into UG course shall have to clear all the semester examinations within 5 years from the year of admission into the course.

1. Pattern of Examinations
2. Candidates admitted into degree course shall be required to appear at two mid semester and two end semester examinations of the respective academic session. Filling up of forms for the semester examinations of each year is mandatory.
3. The mid semester examination shall be conducted for 20% of weight in each of the core, elective and ability enhancement courses and for the remaining 80% of weight, semester examination shall be conducted as per the programme to be notified by the Controller of Examinations.
4. Pattern of Questions

In all theory papers questions shall be set unit wise if available. The candidates are required to answer questions from each unit. If no units are there, question paper shall cover the complete syllabus of the course and not just one or few portion(s) of it.

1. Filling of Application Forms

(i)The candidates shall be required to fill up forms for each of the six semester examinations on the due dates. Filling of forms for the relevant semester examination as and when it falls due is mandatory.

(ii)The date, fees and the procedure of filling application forms for semester examinations shall be notified by the controller of Examinations.

5.Definitions

1. Semester: Each academic year will be divided into two semesters (one odd semester and one even semester) each of 90 working days.
2. Programme: A Programmerefers to a fixed educational programme instead of ‘Degree’.
3. Course: It refers to a component of a programme (i.e. in the CBCS system, papers will be referred to as courses). Each course is identified by a unique course code. Every course may not be of equal weightage. A course may be designed to comprise of lectures/ tutorials/ laboratory work/ field work/ project work/vocational training /viva voce etc. or a combination of some of these.
4. Credit: - While designing syllabus, course can have defined weights, called credits which defines the quantum of content/syllabus prescribed for the course. It may be a unit prescribed for a course. One credit is normally assigned to Fourteen (14) lecture/ tutorial or Twenty-four (24) laboratory periods in one semester. Effectively for one credit, the number of periods normally assigned per week is: 1 Theory (L)/ Tutorial (T) period or 2 Laboratory (P) periods.

1 credit = 1 hour of direct contact / week

1 credit = 2 hours of lab work /week

1 credit = 2 hours of field work or project etc /week

Thus, 1 credit theory course requires 1 clock hour per week and accordingly a 3 credit or 4 credit theory courses requires 3 or 4 clock hours per week.

1. Grade: An index to indicate the performance of a student in a particular course.
2. Point: Each course shall be of 100 points, which is synonymous to marks. The points secured in a course shall determine the Grade in that course.
3. Grade Point: The equivalent numerical value for a Grade determined according to points secured in the course.
4. Credit Points: It refers to the product of “Number of credits assigned to the course” and “the grade point secured for the same course.”
5. Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA): It is an index of a student’s performance in a given semester and indicates the Grade Point Average for a semester.
6. Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA): It refers to the Grade Point Average for all completed semesters at any point of time.

2.Course structure

The University shall follow the common minimum curriculum as fixed by the UGC, with a deviation in syllabi up to 20%, wherever necessary.

Types of Courses

1. Core Courses: A course, which should compulsorily be studied by a candidate as a core requirement is termed as a Core course. The number of core courses for all Universities shall be same for both UG Honours as well as UG Programme.
2. Elective Course: Generally a course which can be chosen from a pool of courses and which may be very specific or specialized or advanced or supportive to the discipline/subject of study or which provides an extended scope or which enables an exposure to some other discipline/subject/domain or nurtures the candidate’s proficiency/skill is called an Elective Course.

Credit score earned by a student for any elective paper shall be included in the student’s overall score tally irrespective of whether the paper is offered by the parent university (degree awarding university/institute) or not. This shall also be applicable to UGC “SWAYAM” courses.

1. Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Course: Elective courses may be offered by the main discipline/subject of study is referred to as Discipline Specific Elective. The University/Institute may also offer discipline related Elective courses of interdisciplinary nature (to be offered by main discipline/subject of study).
2. Dissertation/Project: An elective course designed to acquire special/advanced knowledge, such as supplement study/support study to a project work, and a candidate studies such a course on his/her own with an advisory support by a teacher/faculty member is called dissertation/project.
3. Generic Elective (GE) Courses: An elective course chosen generally form an unrelated discipline/subject with an intention to seek exposure is called a Generic Elective.

P.S.: A core course offered in a discipline/subject may be treated as an elective by other discipline/subject and vice versa and such electives may also be referred to as Generic Elective.

1. Ability Enhancement Courses (AEC): The ability Enhancement Couse (AEC) may be two kinds: Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC) and Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC). “AECC” courses are the courses based upon the content that leads to Knowledge enhancement: i. Environmental Science and ii. English/MIL Communication. These are mandatory for all disciplines. SEC courses are value-based and/or skill-based and are aimed at providing hands-on-training, competencies, skills, etc.
2. Ability Enhanced Compulsory Courses (AECC): Environmental Science, English Communication/MIL Communication.
3. Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC): These courses may be chosen from a pool of courses designed to provide value-based and/or skill-based knowledge.

3.Degree Requirement

1. Manner of Conduct of Examinations

All courses except practical, field study, project work, seminar, comprehensive viva-voce shall involve two components of evaluation, viz., Continuous Comprehensive Assessment (CCA) with 20% of the maximum mark allotted to a course and End Semester Examination (ESE) with 80% of the maximum mark.

1. Grading System

Note: The minimum grade to pass a theory examination is ‘P’ and that of Practical / Field study/ Project work / comprehensive viva-voce etc. is ‘C’.

1. Performance Evaluation

Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) is a measure of performance of a student in a semester which is a ratio of total credit points secured by a student in various courses in a semester and the total course credits taken during that semester, i.e.: SGPA (Si) = Σ(Ci x Gi) / Σ Ci where Ci is the number of credits of the i-th course and Gi is the grade point scored by the student in the i-th course.

Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) is a measure of overall cumulative performance of a student over all semesters. It is computed as the Semester Grade Point Average for all completed semesters at any point of time i.e.: CGPA = Σ(Ci x Si) / Σ Ci, where Si is the SGPA of the i-th semester and Ci is the total number of credits in that semester.

Percentage Equivalence of CGPA may be computed as follows:

Equivalent Percentage of Marks = CGPA 9.5

1. Attendance
2. In order to be eligible for appearing the End-Sem examination, a student shall be required to attend a minimum of 75% of classes in each course. The Principal of the college/Director of Institute on the recommendation of the HoD may condone to an extent of 15% in exceptional cases.
3. The Syndicate may further condone to the extent of 5% to a student who represented the University or the State or the Country during the teaching days in prescribed co-curricular activities (e.g. NCC, NSS, Youth Festivals, and Sports etc.). Such claims need to be supported by authenticated certificate from the competent authority.
4. Unless the student satisfies the required percentage of attendance prescribed supra and has cleared all his/her dues in respect of his/her studentship, he/she shall not be eligible to appear at the concerned End-semester examination.
5. A candidate may be permitted to take up one the M.I.L./AlternativeEnglish without the requirement of attendance at lectures, if the collegewhere he or she is admitted does not have affiliation for that subject.
6. CLASSIFICATION OF RESULTS

Based on the CGPA in the 6th Semester, a student shall be deemed to have earned one of the following grades in the UG Program.

**** **