Examinations

a): Tests and Examinations

18. i) There shall be two examinations for each course during each semester. These examinations shall be termed mid-semester and final. In addition to these examinations, the teacher shall give home assignments, term papers quizzes, etc. The determination of the form of these examinations will be left to the teacher who will be solely responsible for the conduct of examination as well as evaluation in his course. The grade given in the course by the teacher shall be final.

(ii) Only those students who have attended not less than 75 percent of the lectures and practicals separately in each course, shall be eligible for admission to such examinations.

(iii) A teacher shall report to the Dean/Director/Principal concerned through the Chairman of the department concerned the names of students who are absent from the lectures/practicals continuously for seven days to enable him strike off such students.

Explanation: The Dean/Director/Principal may readmit such a candidate or refuse admission if the reasons advanced are not convincing.

19. the final examination for semester shall be held on a date, time and place to be notified by the teacher in advance.

20. To pass a deficiency course, a student shall be required to obtain at least grade C.

21. The scripts of each examination shall be given to the student concerned by the teacher, taken back immediately and then forwarded to the Controller of Examinations within five days, who shall preserve the scripts for a year.

22. i) The mid semester examination shall be held during 9th week of the semester which shall carry 30 percent of the total allocated allocation shall be held by the teacher concerned who shall determine the form of the examination.

ii a) for MBA, MBA (Exec), MBIT/M.Com., the quizzes, special hoe assignments and/or term papers shall carry 20 percent of the total marks allocated which shall be uniformly split over the whole semester. The final examination to be held at the end of the semester shall carry 20 percent of the total marks allocated.

(ii b) for M.Sc (CS) and MS (CS), the quizzes, special home assignments and/or term papers shall carry 10 percent of the total marks allocated which shall be uniformly split over the whole semester. The final examination to be held at the end of the semester shall carry 60 percent of the total marks allocated.

iii) For the purpose of evaluation, one credit will carry 20 marks, e.g., a five credits course will carry 100 marks. These marks will be divided in accordance with the credits assigned to theory and practical for each course.

23. The following weightage shall be given to the examinations, home assignments, term papers etc.

24. In order to qualify in the examination of the semester, a student must obtain at least 20 percent marks separately in (i) Sessional Work/Mid Examination(s) as well as (ii) Final Examination. In other words, for commutative passing, the essential condition will be the attainment of at least 20 percent marks in each part. It will also be essential to pass separately in the practical examination.

25. The teacher shall send the final award list for the course to the controller of Examinations, and a copy each to the Dean of the Faculty, Chairman of the Department concerned and the Director Advanced Studies, normally within five days after the end of the semester.

26. One receipt of the award lists, the Controller of Examinations shall prepare a consolidated award sheet and send it to the Director Advanced Studies and Dean/Director/Principal and the Chairman of the Department concerned.

27. A student, who has taken the final examination of and approved course at the end of the semester, shall not be permitted to delete the course.

28. A student who fails to make up the deficiency in his grade point average, in the number of chances permitted, shall cease to be on the rolls.

b) Grade Point Average

29. Grade point will be as follows: A for 4.0, B for 3.0 to 3.9, C for 2.0 to 2.9, D for 1.0 to 1.9 and F for failure (that is zero).

Equivalence between latter grading and numerical grading shall be as follows;

(Fractions will be rounded to the nearest whole number.)

Explanation: a) At the end of the first semester, student must obtain a minimum grade point average (GPA) of 1.5 to be promoted to the second semester.

b) In case a student is able to obtain GPA of 1.75 or more but less than 2.00, he will be promoted to the second semester on probation.

c) At the end of the second semester, a student must obtain a minimum cumulative grade point average (CGPA) of 1.75 and must also pass at least 50 percent of the courses taken by him in order to be promoted to the third semester. If any of the preceding two conditions is not fulfilled by a student, he shall case to be on to the roll.

STATUTES AND REGULATIONS TO THE MASTER’S DEGREE IN FULL AND PARTIAL RESIDENCE

d) A student will be required to repeat those courses of the previous semesters in which he had failed, at the first available opportunity, provided that his maximum work load, including the courses being repeated by him will not exceed the normal work load.

e) At the end of the third and subsequent semester, the CGPA of a student would not be less than 2.00 otherwise he shall cease to be on the rolls.

f) A student, who cannot maintain the GPA/CGPA requirements in accordance with regulation and and ceases to be on the rolls, may seek fresh admission alongwith other candidates, on merit, but only once.

g) MS (CS) candidate should obtain GPA/CGPA of 2.75 for enrolment to the next semester. In case a student is able to obtain GPA/CGPA of 2.25 or more but less than 2.75, he will be allowed to enroll in the next semester, but only once, and he will be given a warning to improve his GPA/CGPA and if he fails to obtain 2.75 in the next semester, his admission shall stand cancelled).

h) An MS (CS) student, who obtains CGPA of 2.25 or more but less than 2.75 upon the completion of entire approved course work, may be allowed to repeat once the courses of the previous semesters in which he had obtained the lowest grades in order to improve the CGPA so as to obtain the minimum of 2.75 failing which he shall cease to be on the rolls.

30. An MBA/M.Com/M.Sc. (CS) or MBIT candidate who obtains CGPA of 2.00 but less than 2.50 upon the completion of entire approved course work may be allowed to repeat once the course(s) for the previous semesters in which he had obtained the lowest grades, in order to improve the CGPA so s to obtain the minimum of 2.50, failing which he shall cease to be on the rolls.

C): Thesis Examination

31. A student shall be entitled to submit thesis for examination after he has passed all the final examinations in the approved courses provided he has also fulfilled the residential requirements.

32. The thesis shall be prepared and presented in the manner laid down in the instructions approved by the Advanced Studies and Research Board from time to time. It shall be accompanied by the research paper and an abstract embodying results for the thesis.

33. The unbound thesis shall be referred to the examiner(s) for evaluation duly certified by the Supervisory Committee that the contents and form of the thesis are satisfactory for submission.

34. The thesis shall be evaluated by a Board of Examiners comprising members for the Supervisory committee and one external examiner, appointed by the Vice Chancellor from the persons proposed by the Advanced Studies and Research Board, out of the penal of names recommended by the Board of Studies.

At least three members of the Board of Examiners of whom one must be an external examiner shall, for the purpose of evaluating the thesis, hold a viva voce examinations and such other tests as they may consider necessary. The external examiner shall be given reasonable time to go through the contents of the thesis critically. The viva voce examination would be conducted at least after one week of the receipt of thesis by external examiner.

35. The thesis shall be evaluated by the Board of Examiners according to the following numerical and latter grades:

a) For M.Sc. (CS) candidates there shall be 200 marks corresponding to 10 credit hours allocated for thesis and these may be divided as under:

i) 25% marks will be reserved for the evaluation for technical knowledge of the topic as well as general knowledge about the subject of the degree program.

ii) 50% marks will be reserved for the subject matter of the thesis, such as the originality and justification of research, quality of data, interpretation of data, conclusions drawn and achievements of the objectives of the research.

iii) 25% marks will be reserved for the technical aspects of presentation such as consistency, illustrations, diagrams, references, English grammer, vocabulary and quality of typing.

b) The marks so awarded will be converted into latter grades by the prescribed formula which shall be A, B, C, D, or F as the case may be. Average grades on the basis of course work and thesis will then be worked out to calculate the final CGPA.

36. If a candidate fails in the thesis examination, he may enroll again and submit a revised thesis on payment of the prescribed examination fee but he shall not be entitled to resubmit his thesis before the expiry of six months after the date of declaration of the result of the last thesis examination. He can avail this chance only once.

37. The unbound thesis of MS (CS) candidate shall be referred to the external examiner for evaluation after he has passed all the final examinations in the approved courses and has also fulfilled the residential requirements, provided further that the candidate has defended his thesis research at University level through a seminar. This presentation shall be evaluated by his supervisory committee and one nominee of the Dean and if found acceptable, the final submission may be allowed.

Explanation: This seminar shall be in addition to the one, which is delivered for the completion of the course work.

38. The thesis for MS (CS) candidate shall be evaluated by a Board of Examiners comprising members of the supervisory committee and one external examiner, appointed by the Vice Chancellor from the persons proposed by the Advanced Studies and Research Board out of the standing panel of names of examiners along with their specialization recommended by Board of Studies. This standing panel shall consist of not less than ten and more than twenty names drawn from all over the country. At least three members of the Board of Examiners of whom one must be an external examiner for the purpose of evaluating the thesis, hold a viva voce examination and such other tests as they may consider necessary. The evaluation will be made according to the following numerical as well as latter grades:

a) There shall be 300 marks corresponding to 15 credit hours allocated for thesis and these may be divided as under:

(i) 30 percent marks will be reserved for the evaluation of technical presentation of the thesis, such as the volume, format, illustrations, diagrams, references etc. and

(ii) 70 percent marks will be reserved for the subject matter of the thesis and the knowledge gained by the candidate throughout the course of his studies as provided under Regulations.

b) The marks so awarded will be converted into latter grades by the prescribed formula which shall be A, B, C or F, as the case may be. Average grade on the basis of course work and thesis will then be worked out to calculate the final CGPA.

39. The subject approved for thesis research shall remain valid only for 8 semesters from the date of admission of the candidate to the course. The Advanced Studies and Research Board may, however, relax this condition for special reasons to be recorded.

40. A student admitted to the course in partial residence shall undertake research work in a laboratory or institute approved by the Syndicate on the recommendations of the Academic Council and Advanced Studies and Research Board.

41. In case of disagreement between the Supervisory Committee and the External Examiner regarding the acceptance of the thesis is shall be referred to another external examiner whose decision shall be final.

42. If the thesis, submitted by a candidate for final evaluation, is proved to be copied/plagiarized at the time of viva-voce examination, it will be liable to be rejected on the report of Board of Examiners. The Controller of Examinations will declare the candidate fail in thesis examination. The admission of such a candidate shall be cancelled and he shall not be readmitted under any circumstances.

43. If the thesis of a candidate is proved to be plagiarized after its evaluation and declaration of result previous result of the candidate will be cancelled and he will be declared to have failed in the thesis examination. Such a candidate shall not be readmitted under any circumstances.

E. Examination Fee

44. University examination fee shall be charged at the time of registration for each semester.

45. A candidate who passes all the examinations with the prescribed CGPA shall be awarded the Degree of Master of Computer Science/Master of Business Administration/Master of Commerce/Master of Business and Information Technology/MS (CS).