CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM (CBCS)

Choice based Credit system (CBCS) for UG Classes under Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA) was introduced in the year 2013, wherein the courses are measured in terms of credits. Further in the year 2016 the new Choice based credit System was introduced in accordance with UGC guidelines. The CBCS provides an opportunity for the students to choose courses from the prescribed courses comprising core, elective or skill based courses. The courses can be evaluated following the grading system, which is considered to be better than the conventional marks system. Therefore, it is necessary to introduce uniform grading system in the entire higher education in India. This will benefit the students to move across institutions within India and across countries. The uniform grading system will also enable potential employers in assessing the performance of the candidates. In order to bring uniformity in evaluation system and computation of the Cumulative Grade point average (CGPA) based on student’s performance in the examinations, the UGC has formulated the guidelines to be followed.

1. Discipline Specific Core Course (DSC): A course, which should compulsorily be studied by a candidate as a core requirement is termed as a Core course.

2. Elective Course: 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.

• Discipline Specific Elective Course (DSC)(2 each for regular courses): Elective courses offered under the main discipline /subject of study is referred to as a Discipline Specific Elective.
• 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 own with an advisory support by a teacher/faculty member is called dissertation/project.
• Generic Elective Course (GEC): An elective course chosen from an unrelated discipline/subject with an intention to seek exposure to other subjects/disciplines is called a Generic Elective Course.

3. Ability Enhancement Course (AECC):

• Ability enhancement Compulsory course (AECC): Environmental Science, English Communication/MIL communication.
• Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC) Minimum 4: These courses may be chosen from a pool of courses designed to provide value-based and/or skill-based knowledge and should contain both theory and lab/hands-on / training/field work.

Duration (Time Frame): The UG programme is for a minimum period of three years and a maximum of five years from the date of admission of the candidate. Each academic year shall comprise of two semesters, viz. odd and even semesters. Odd Semesters shall be from June to October and the even semester shall be from November to April. There shall be in each semester not less than 90 working days with 450 teaching hours.

Credits: The term ‘credit’ refers to the weightage given to a course, usually in terms of the number of instructional hours per week assigned to it. This explains why usually ‘credit’ is taken to mean ‘credit hours’. The credits also determine the volume of course contents and delivery of programme such as lectures, tutorials, practicals, assignments, etc.

Summary of Credits for B.A. & B.Com. (New)

Continuous Comprehensive Assessment (CCA):

Continuous Comprehensive Assessment accounts for 30% of the final grade that a student gets in a course of study. This would have the following components:

i) Classroom Attendance: each student will have to attend a minimum of 75% lectures/Tutorials/Practicals. A student having less than 75% attendance will not be allowed to appear in the Term End Examination (TEE).

• Provided that those having between 74% and 65% attendance will apply for exemption in a prescribed form accompanied by clear reason(s) for absence, to the authorized functionaries.
• Provided that those having between 64% and 50% attendance will apply for exemption in a prescribed form accompanied with a Medical Certificate form a Government Hospital. Exemption from 75% attendance will be given to those students who have participated in prescribed co-curricular activities(e.g. NCC, NSS ,Eco- Club, Rovers and Rangers, Youth Festivals, Sports, etc.) Exemption to the extent of 25% will be given to such students (making the necessary attendance as 50% in these cases).

Further those students getting the exemption, except for those getting exemption for co-curricular activities, will not be entitled to the CCA marks for classroom attendance.
Classroom Attendance Incentive: The students having greater than 75% attendance and who also participated in co-curricular activities, 25% will be added to percent attendance.

All students will get weight age for attendance as enlisted below:

=75% but <80%: 1 mark
=80% but <85%: 2 marks
=85% but <90%: 3 marks
=90% but <95%: 4 marks
=95% & above: 5 marks

ii) Mid- Term (Minor) Tests- There will be one mid-term test, to be conducted when approximately 2/3 of the syllabus has been covered. This midterm test will be for 15 marks and will be conducted in the months of December.

iii) Seminar & Assignments- The remaining 10 marks of the CCA will be awarded on the basis of seminars/ assignments, etc. that the course teacher might give to the students.

(iv) Term End Examination:
i) The remaining 70% of the final grade of the students in a course will be on the basis of term end examination that will be three hours duration and will be covering the whole syllabus of the course.

HINDI BA-I

HINDI BA-II

HINDI BA-III

Economics

History

English