Examinations

(a) Tests and Examinations

19.        (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/her course. The grade given in the course by the teacher shall be final. 

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

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

                         (Explanation: The Dean/Director/Principal may re-admit such a candidate or refuse admission if the reasons advanced are not convincing).

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

21.               To pass a deficiency course a student shall be required to obtain:

 (i)                   marks prescribed in the regulations relating to the under-graduate examination concerned if the deficiency course is of Ist and 2nd year level otherwise at least grade C;

                        (ii)         grade C, if the deficiency course is of post-graduate level.

22.        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 ten days, who shall preserve the scripts for a year.

23.        (i)         The mid-semester examination shall be held during 9th week of the semester which shall carry 30 per cent of the total allocated marks for the course. The examination shall be held by the teacher concerned who shall determine the form of the examination.

(ii)                 In addition, quizzes, special home assignments and/ or term papers shall carry 10 per cent 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 per cent 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.

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

            (i)         Sessional work/Examinations:

                        Mid-semester examination                                              30%

                        Home assignments/term papers, quizzes.                        10%      40%

            (ii)        Final examination of the course

                        (Covering the entire course)                                             60%

                                                                                               Total:    100%

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

26    The teacher shall send the final award list for the course to the Controller of Examinations, and a copy each to the Dean/Director/Principal of the Faculty/Division/ Institute/  College, Chairman of the Department concerned and the Director, Advanced Studies, normally within ten days after the end of the semester (Syndicate dated 4.11.04).

27.        On 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 Chairmen of the Departments concerned.

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

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

(b) Grade Point Average

30.        Grade point will be as follows: A for 4, B for 3, C for 2, D for 1 and F for failure (that is zero).

            Maximum grade point average                             : 4.00

            Minimum grade point average for

            obtaining Master's Degree                                   : 2.50

            Equivalence between letter grading and numerical grading shall be as follows:

            Grade              Value               Marks               Remarks

            A                      4                      80-100%           Excellent

            B                      3                      65- 79%            Good

            C                      2                      50-64%             Satisfactory

            D                      1                      40-49%             Pass

            F                      0                      Below 40%        Fail

                        (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 (G.P.A.) of 1.75 to be promoted to the second semester.

(b)                 In case a student is able to obtain GPA of 1.50 or more but less than 1.75, he/she 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 (C.G.P.A.) of 1.75 and must also pass at least 50 per cent of the courses taken by him/her in order to be promoted to the third semester. If any of the preceding two conditions is not fulfilled by a student, he/she shall cease to be on the rolls.

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

            (e)        At the end of the third and subsequent semesters, the C.G.P.A. of a student should not be less than 2.00, otherwise he/she shall cease to be on the rolls.

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

31.        A student, 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 courses of the previous semesters in which he/she had obtained the lowest grades, in order to improve the CGPA so as to obtain the minimum of 2.50, failing which he/she shall cease to be on the rolls.

(c) Thesis Examination

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

33.        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 a research paper and an abstract embodying results of the thesis.

34.        The unbound thesis shall be referred to the examiner for evaluation duly certified by the supervisory committee that the contents and form of the thesis are satisfactory for submission.

35.               The thesis 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 panel of names recommended by the Board of Studies. At least three members of the Boards of Examiners of whom one must be an external examiner shall for the purpose of evaluating the thesis, hold a viva voce examination 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 the external examiner.

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

            (a)        There shall be 200 marks corresponding to 10 credit hours allocated for thesis and these may be divided as under:

   (i)      Twenty five percent marks will be reserved for the evaluation of technical  knowledge of the topic as well as general knowledge about the subject of the degree programme.

            (ii)         Fifty percent 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)        Twenty five percent marks will be reserved for technical aspects of presentation such as consistency, illustration, diagrams, references, English grammer, vocabulary and quality of typing.

(b)    The marks so awarded will be converted into letter 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.

(a)          The award of thesis examination should be sent after making sure that the suggested improvements have been made in the thesis, and certificate to this effect on the award list is given by the supervisor. The Controller of Examinations should not notify the result of the student until he receives corrected, bound copy of thesis with the certificates of the supervisor (Syndicate 12.3.05.)

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

  (ii)                The thesis evaluation will be conducted within six months from the date of dispatch of thesis from the office of Controller of Examinations to the quarters concerned, failing which the student will be declared fail in the thesis examination. However, the Vice Chancellor may allow up to one year in hardship cases(Syndicate dated 12.3.2005).

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

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.               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/she shall not be readmitted to M.Sc. under any circumstances.

42.               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/she will be declared to have failed in thesis examination. Such a candidate shall not be readmitted to M.Sc. under any circumstances.

                                                  IV. Examination fees

43.        University examination fees shall be charged at the time of registration for each semester.

                                                          V. General

44.     A candidate who passes all the examinations with the prescribed C.G.P.A. shall be awarded the Degree of Master of Science/Master of Science (Hons.).