University Regulations

University Regulations on Choice- Based Credit and Grading System.

(Approved by 28^th &29^th Academic Council Meeting)

I. Preamble

The University Grants Commission (UGC) has initiated several measures to bring equity, efficiency and excellence in the Higher Education System of country. The important measures taken to enhance academic standards and quality in higher education include innovation and improvements in curriculum, teaching-learning process,examination and evaluation systems, besides governance and other matters. The UGC has formulated various regulations and guidelines from time to time to improve the higher education system and maintain minimum standards quality across the Higher Educational Institutions (HEIs) in India. The grading is considered to be better than the conventional marks system and hence been followed in the top institutions in India and abroad. So it is desirable to introduce uniform grading system. This will facilitate student mobility across institutions within and across countries and also enable potential employers to assess the performance of students.

The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) enables the student to obtain a degree by accumulating required number of credits prescribed for that degree. The choice based credit system provide a ‘cafeteria’ type approach in which the students can take courses of their choice, learning at their own pace, undergo additional courses and acquire more than the required credits, and adopt an interdisciplinary approach to learning. The number of credits earned by a student reflects the knowledge or skill acquired by him/her. Each course is assigned with a fixed number of credits based on the contents to be learned. The grade points earned for each course reflects the students proficiency in that course. The CBCS enables the student to earn credits across departments and provides flexibility in duration to complete a program of a study.

II. Objectives

Introduction of Choice Based Credit System has following main objectives.

1) To promote learner centeredness in curriculum.

2) To encourage inter-disciplinarily without sacrificing the domain knowledge.

3) To promote mobility of students help in optimizing learning.

4) To allow autonomy to the teachers with built in accountability.

5) To continuously evaluate students and help in optimizing learning.

6) To introduce transparency in the evaluation system.

7) To promote teacher-student relation and engagement.

8) To improve employability among students.

III. Applicability of Credit and Grading System

The regulation shall apply to all undergraduate programme (regular degree) running in constituent and affiliated colleges. Skill based occupational degree (B.Voc.) is not governed by present regulation. The regulation shall not apply to programmes like L.L.B.,B.Sc.-B.Ed. and courses not specified here.

IV. Eligibility for Admission

Pass in the Higher Secondary (10+2) Examination or its equivalent conducted by any recognized Board of the State or Central Government. For admission in Science subjects a candidate must pass in the relevant subject(s).

Candidate passing with vocational courses, the equivalence may be decided by the College Principal.

V. Under Graduate Programme

1) The Under Graduate Programme shall consist of three academic years with two semesters in each year. The first Academic shall comprise of the first and second semesters, the second academic year- the third and fourth semesters and the third academic year- the fifth and sixth semesters.

2) The working days for each semester shall not be less than 90 excluding holiday/sports/ examination/semester break/ vacation, if any.

3) A candidate shall register his / her name with the University in the first semester itself.

4) A candidate can avail a maximum of 10 semesters- 5 years (in one stretch). No candidate shall be allowed to appear in any course more than three times (including regular chance), and no candidate shall allowed to appear in any course beyond ten semester of his first admission.

5) A candidate has to earn a minimum of 140 Credits, for successful completion of under graduate degree, with a distribution of credits for defferent course categories as given in following Table 1:

VI. Definitions

1) Academic Year: Two consecutive ( one odd+one even) senesters constitutes one academic year.

2) Programme: An educational programme (B.Sc.,B.A.,B.COM. etc.) leading to award of a degree.

3) Semester: Each semester will consists of 18 weeks of academic work equivalent to 90 actual teaching days. The odd semester is scheduled from July to December and semester from January to June.

Table 1. Course categaries and distribution of Credits

*In case of B.COM,elective core courses (EC) are not applicable; the credits shall be shifted to Core courses (CC).

4) Course: Usually referred to, as ‘papers’ is a component of a programme. All courses needed not carry the same weight. The course should define learning objectives and learning outcomes. A course is designed to comprise lecture/ tutorial/laboratorywork/fieldwork/projectwork/viva/seminers/assignments/presentation etc or a combination of some of these.

5) Credit: A unit by which the course is measured. It determines the number of hours of instructions required per week. One credit shall mean one hour pf teaching (lecture or tutorial) or two hours of laboratory/ practical work per week in a semester of 18 weeks.

6) Letter Grade : It is an index of performance of learners in a said course. Grades are denoted by O,A+,A,B+B,C,P,and F.

7) Grade point: It is a numerical weight allotted to each letter grade on a 10-point scale.

8) Credit Point: It is product of grade point and number of credits for a course.

9) Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA): It is a measure of performance of work done in a semester. It is a ratio of total credit points secured by a student in various course registered in a semester and the total course credits taken during that semester. It shall be expressed up to two decimal places.

10) Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA): It is overall cumulative performance of a student over all semesters. The CPA is the ratio of total credit points secured by a student in various courses in all semesters and the sum of the total credits of all courses in all the semesters. It shall be expressed up to two decimal places.

11) Grade Card: Based on the grade earned, a grade card shall be issued to all the registerd students after every semester. The grade card will display the course details (code,title,number of credit, grade secured) along with SGPA of that semester and CGPA earned till that semester.

VII. Type of courses

The courses for undergraduate degree shall be of three kinds:

1) Foundation courses (FC): Foundation courses are courses based upon the content that leads to knowledge enhancement and man-making education.

2) Core Courses: These courses are to be compulsorily studied by a student as a core requirement of programme in a said discipline of the study. It comprises of two types:

i) Major Core Courses (CC): These courses belong to subject in which student receive degree with Major.

• Elective Core Courses (EC): these courses belong to two other elective subjects opted by student from allowed subject combinations along with a Major during 1^st and2nd years.

Table 3. Subject Combination allowed for BA. Degree

VIII. Curriculum Structure for a UG Programme

• Each UG programme shall be designed as 140-credit, full-time undergraduate degree programme delivered in six (06) semesters.
• Each course of a programme must be unitized (usually five) by concerned BOS.
• Each programme shall be structured with a common core curriculum that lays the foundation, and a wide set of electives based on student’s choice.
• Irrespective of discipline, each UG programme shall be a suitable mix of three types of courses as given below in Table 1.
• Up to second year (i.e. Ist, IInd, IIIrd and IVth semester) there shall be no categorization as core and elective. At the time of admission to Vth semester students shall identified one subject as Major Core Subject. Accordingly, other two subjects shall be designated as Elective Core Subject 1 and Elective Core Subject 2.

B.A. Course structure

CC: Major Core Course; EC: Elective Core Course; FC : Foundation Course;

B.Com Course Structure

Note: (1) CC – Core Courses; FC - Foundation Course.

(2) L – Lecture; T – Tutorial; P – Practical

* Optional Papers BC/5/CC/20 E & BC/6/CC/24 E contains practical works, thus credit distribution will be L=4 + P=2, optional papers BC/5/CC/20 F/M & BC/6/CC/24 F/M don’t have practical thus credit distribution will be L=4 + T=2

Optional Group & Papers: Students are advised to choose any one Optional Group out of three groups (Finance/ Marketing/E-Commerce). First paper (BC/5/CC/20 F/M/E) of either group will be part of the Fifth Semester and second paper (BC/6/CC/24 F/M/E) will be part of the Sixth Semester.

Finance:

BC/5/CC/20 F: Financial Management

BC/6/CC/24 F: Capital Market Operations

Marketing:

BC/5/CC/20 M: Principles of Marketing

BC/6/CC/24 M: Agricultural & Rural Marketing E-Commerce:

BC/5/CC/20 E: Internet & www

BC/6/CC/24 E: Essentials of E-Commerce.

IX. Examination and Assessment

Each course shall be evaluated at the scale of 100. For all course, irrespective of theory and practical, there shall be continuous internal assessment carrying 25 marks and an end-semester examination carrying 75 marks.

1) Continuous Assessment:

The outline for continuous assessment activities shall be proposed by the teacher concerned before the commencement of the semester. Some suggested parameters of continuous Assessment are class tests, seminar, quiz, home assignments, project, and other methods. However, there shall be series of tests at regular intervals for each course (paper) incorporating various parameters as given above. Final marks shall be calculated for total 25 Marks.

The scheme of awarding marks in internal assessment for theory courses shall be as below:

The scheme of awarding marks in internal assessment for a practical course shall be as given below:

Attendance evaluation for each shall be as given in below:

2) The End- semester Examination

For each Course (separately for theory and practical) end-semester examination shall be conducted for 75 marks each. Finally the marks obtained in internal assessment and end-semester in each course shall be pooled and the % marks obtained shall be calculated by the Examination Department.

Pattern of questions for theory and practical examination

Duration of theory and practical examination will be 3 hrs. the question paper shall be set covering all units/ sections.

The pattern of questions for theory papers and practical’s will be as given in Table 4 and Table 5 respectively:

Table 4: Pattern of questions for theory paper

Table 5 : Pattern of questions for practical paper.

The pattern of question for practical papers will be as given in Table:

X. Minimum marks for passing of a course and passing rules

1) A minimum of 140 Credits are required for awarding of B.Sc./B.COM. and B.A. Degree.

2) For passing of each course a candidate must secure a minimum of 50% marks (equivalent Grade’B’ )in end semester examination. For internal assessment there shall be no passing marks. However, grading shall be based on marks obtained in both components i.e. internal assessment and end semester examination.

3) A student, who has not secured above marks, has to appear in end semester examination.

4) In any case a student shall not be allowed to repeat a course for internal assessment component.

5) A candidate shall be permitted to proceed from the first semester up to final semester irrespective of his/her failure in any of the semester examination subject to condition that the candidate shall appear for all the arrear papers of each course(s) along with the concerned semester examinations.

6) No candidate shall be allowed to appear in any course more than three times (including the regular chance), and no candidate shall be allowed to appear in any course beyond ten semesters of his/her first admission.

XI. Attendance

A candidate shall be eligible to appear in the end-semester examination only if he/she attend a minimum of 75% attendance as per University ordinance.

XII. Grading

1) Each course (paper) shall be graded on the basis of marks obtained ( on scaled marka of 100) during a semester.

2) Letter Grades and Grade Points: There shall be absolute grading where marks obtained (out of 100) by a student in a course is converted to a grade on a 10-point scale as given in Table 6:

Table 6: Marks to grade conversion

i) The F grade is ‘fail’ grade. A student has to appear at subsequent examination(s). For a course if F grade is awarded, Credit points shall not be calculated. Accordingly, for a particular semester SGPA shall not be calculated unless all courses are above F grade. CGPA shall not be awarded unless each course of all semester (I to VI semester) are graded C or above.

ii) The CGPA is cumulative and not average of SGPA of four semesters. CGPA shall be calculated considering grade points and credits of all semester i.e. I,II.III,IV,V and VI semesters.

iii) In first semester CGPA = SGPA, but second semester onwards it depends on total cumulative credits a student has earned.