A student shall be required to participate in all components of the comprehensive continuous internal assessment, as specified in the detailed course outline, failing which he/she shall be deemed to have NOT COMPLETED the course and shall be awarded the “I” grade. provided further that the “I” grade shall also be awarded to a candidate in a course in which he/she has been declared ineligible to appear in the term end examination of a courses on account not meeting the minimum prescribed attendance requirements for the course.
A student who has been awarded “I” grade shall be required to re-register for the same course, when it is offered in the next semester(s), or shall have to register for another course under the overall framework of credit accumulation under the comprehensive choice based credit system to be able to successfully complete the minimum specified credit requirements for completion of the programme of studies.
A candidate shall be deemed to have successfully completed a course except in case where he/she has been awarded the “I” grade or “F” grade. A student who has successfully completed a course shall not be permitted to repeat the course to improve his/her grade; A candidate shall be required to secure a minimum of 50% marks, in the course taken, to successfully complete that course, failing which he/she shall be deemed to have failed in the course and shall be awarded the “F” grade.
The “F” grade once awarded shall stay in the grade card of the student and shall not be deleted even when he/she successfully completes the course later. The grade acquired later by the student will be indicated in the grade sheet of the subsequent semester in which the candidate has appeared for clearance of the arrears.
If a student has been awarded “F” grade, he/she shall be required to repeat the only the term end examination i.e. he/she shall be required to reappear in term end examination of that course when that course is offered next. Provided further that a student shall not be permitted to repeat/reappear in the continuous internal assessment and/or the internal (mid-term) examination and that the marks/grade obtained by him earlier shall be carried forward for declaring the result.
A student with “F” grade in a course shall be permitted to repeat/reappear in the term end examination of the course for maximum number of three times i.e. a student with arrears on account of “F” grade, shall be permitted to repeat/reappear in the term end examination for a maximum of three times (including the first appearance), along with the subsequent term end examinations.
If a student secures “F” grade in a project work/project report/dissertation/field work report/training report etc, he/she shall be required to resubmit the revised project work/project report/dissertation/field work report/training report etc, as required by the evaluator(s). Provided further that a student shall be permitted to re-submit the project work/project report/dissertation/field work report/training report etc for a maximum of three times(including the first submission).
There shall be no system of compartmental/supplementary examination.
All students admitted to an odd Semester shall be eligible for promotion to the even semester. To be eligible for promotion from an even semester to the odd semester, a student shall be required to successfully complete at least 50% of all the courses registered by him/her so far. All such students who are not promoted to the next semester shall be treated as ex-students and shall continue to remain so till they become eligible for promotion to the next semester.