Assam University: Silchar

2 · Choice Based Credit System Main Features: The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) provides flexibility in designing curriculum and assigning credits based on the course content and hours of 'teaching: It provides a cafeteria type approach in which the students can take courses of their choice, learn at their own pace, undergo additional courses and acquire more than the required credits, and adopt an inter-disciplinary approach to learning:

3 · Type of Courses:

4 · CBCS Course Structure: (a) PGIUG/Integrated Courses are offered within the existing semester pattern. There shall be 2(two)4 (Four) semester in each PG Programme and 6(Six) 8(Eight) /10 (Ten) , as the case may be, semesters in the Undergraduate Programmes The Academic calendar in each semester shall provide 90 teaching days:

5 · . Attendance: (a) 75% attendance is compulsory for all the students. A student shall be considered to have satisfied the requirement of attendance for appearing the semester end examination, if helshe attended not less then 75% of the number of classes held upto the end of the semester including tests, seminars and practicals etc. There is, however; provision for condonation of attendance by the Dean of the School for the students who have put up the attendance between 65% and 74.99%/ on Medical grounds on production of Medical Certificate If a student represents the University/State/Nation in any sports, NCC,NSS or Cultural or any other officially sponsored activities, helshe shall be eligible to claim the attendance for the actual number of days participated subject to maximum of 20 days in a semester; based on the specific recommendation of the Head of the Department: This is required to be approved by the Dean of the School. student who does not satisfy the requirement of attendance shall not be permitted to take internal assessment as well as the semester end examinations. While forwarding examination forms to Examination Department, this is required to ensured specifically by the Department.

6 · Medium of instruction: The medium of instructions shall be English except programmes/courses in Languages or as decided by Academic Council/Executive Council.

7 · Registration

8 · Distribution of Credits: (a) Each theory paper would have one credit for each hour of instruction per week in a semester: The activities include lectures, tutorials and others for internal evaluation (Seminar, group discussion, laboratory/demonstration session mini project etc ) Ideally, a theory paper which is equivalent to 100 marks of course load) should be of 6(six) credit points which would consist of 4 hours of lectures and 2 hours of tutorial & other activities per week. theory paper of 50 marks would have 3 (three) credit points: 2 hours of lecturest 1 hours tutorial per week (& other): For science subjects with practical one hour tutorial may be outside the office hours for home work, literature survey/ internet browsing etc. b) Practical papers/ courses would have one credit point for every 2 hours of laboratory work per week in a semester. If the number of hours per week is an odd number; appropriate adjustment be made it to the nearest even number; for example: 1) 3 hours lab per day x 2 days per week = 6 hours = 3 credits. 2) 3 hours lab per day - x 3 days per week = 9 hours 4 credits. If the total number of practical courses is 18 hours per week, then 3 hours per week be devoted as home work for preparing the report (i.e. laboratory book) and other activity related to practical. P.G. Dissertation research work/projects/Field work would be of 12 credit points by 24 hours of work per week in semester. The dissertation would involve activities such as literature survey preparation of project report; computation, seminar; presentation, demonstrations, viva-voce examinations, and (if required) visit to other institutions Or research laboratory for data collection etc. About six to nine hours of work may be allowed to such activities outside class hours and about 18 to 15 hours of work for the laboratory work.

10 · Evaluation_Method:

10 · 1 Procedure for Internal assessment evaluation: The marks allotted for Internal Assessment (IA) and Assignment will be 30 marks in each coursel/paper, out of which 15 marks will for Internal assignments and 15 marks for Assignment: Three Internal test is to be conducted in each course/paper and after evaluation, average of two highest marks scored out of these three examinations is to be awarded to the student. Each Internal Assessment examination shall be of one hour duration and to be conducted by the concerned teacher of each paper/course. The setting of question paper; invigilation duty; evaluation of answer scripts for each paper shall be done by the concerned teacher(s) as a part of his/her normal duty. Assignment, Seminars & Group Discursion or related work depending o the decision of the department teacher concerned may also be considered for awarding marks of Internal Assessment:

11 · Compilation of SGPAand CGPA: The following procedure to compute the Semester Grade Point (SGPA) and Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) shall be followed: 1) The SGPA is the ratio of sum of the product of the number of credits with the grade points scored by a student in all the courses taken by a student and the sum of the number of credits of all the courses undergone by a student, i.e. SGPA (Si) = > (Ci x Gi) > Ci Where Ci is the number of credits of the ith course and Gi is the grade point scored by the student in the ith course_ ii) The CGPA is also calculated in the same manner taking into account all the courses undergone by a student over all the semesters of a programme, i.e. CGPA = > (Ci xSi) /ZCi Where Si is the SGPA of the ith semester and Ci is the total number of credits in that semesters. iii) The SGPA and CGPA shall be rounded off to 2 decimal points and reported in the marksheet/ grade card.

12 · Letter_Grades and Grade Points: 12.1 A 10- point grading system with the following letter grades as given below shall be followed:

0 · (Outstanding) A+ (Excellent) A (Very Good) B+ (Good)

12 · 2 A student obtaining Grade F shall be considered failed and helshe will be required to reappear in the examination. 12.3 For Non-Credit courses, Satisfactory Or unsatisfactory shall be indicated instead of the letter grade and this will not be counted for the computation of SGPA/CGPA 12.4 A student will be declared to complete a course satisfactorily and will be awarded the relevant Degree/Diploma if helshe clears all the courses/papers required to complete that Degree as stipulated in the course curriculum 12.5 A student of Integrated course will not be allowed to take admission in Master Courses till helshe complete his undergraduate courses satisfactorily to obtain his/her Bachelor Degree. Otherwise, to get admission in Master Degree courses a student must pass his/her Bachelor Degree Course.

13 · Re-evaluation/Scrutiny of answer scripts

14 · Declaration Of Rank: