Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC):

These courses may be chosen from a pool of courses designed to provide skill-based knowledge. The main purpose of these courses is to provide students life-skills so as to increase their employability.

An undergraduate degree with Honours in a discipline may be awarded if a student completes 14 core papers in that discipline, 2 Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC), minimum 2Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC), 4 papers from a list of Discipline Specific Elective and 4 papers from one discipline or 2 papers each in two disciplines other than his /her core discipline.

ELIGIBILITY

Higher Secondary / +2 / Senior Secondary or any other equivalent examination passed from any Board / Council established by the Govt. of India or any State Govt. or any other equivalent examination recognized by Central Board of Secondary Education/ Council of Higher Secondary Education, Govt. of Odisha/ Dept of Higher Education / Dept. of Industry or any other Dept of Govt. of Odisha. Those joining B.Sc. Programme must have passed the above examination under the faculty of Science/ Technology / Engineering/ Pharmacy etc. There shall be no such restriction for joining BA/ B.Com stream.

Students ordinarily may be selected for admission through merit in the qualifying examination. DDCE would admit students on first come first serve basis. The Govt. of Odisha may lay down admission process for colleges under its control. Directorate of Distance & Continuing Education would decide its own admission policy.

1.DURATION:

Three years of six semesters. Odd semester (i.e. 1^st, 3^rd& 5^th semester) is from 15th June to 30^thNovember and the examination shall be held normally in the month of November. Even semester (i.e. 2^nd, 4^th& 6^th semester) is from 1^stDecember to 5^thMay and the examination shall be held normally in the month of April/May. However, the Final Semester shall be conducted in April and it is desirable that the result shall be publishedwithin 30 days and not beyond 45 days from the date of completion of the examination. A student would be required to complete the course within six academic years from the date of admission.

2.COMPULSORY REGISTRATION:

• Registration for the 1st semester examination is compulsory and will be at the timeof admission.All the students admitted in 1^st semester of a college will compulsorily be registered by the University. A registration / examination card will be issued tocandidates admitted that will remain valid till completion of the course. There will be no need toissue admit card for every semester.The candidates fulfilling the attendance norms and other eligibility criteria will be allowed to appear the examination.Students will not be required to fill up any form for the University for regular papers. Examination Fee will be collected at the time of admission and Affiliated Colleges will be required to send the appearing studentslist along with the requisite fees to the university before

thecut off date for each semester.If a student does not appear for all the papers in both first and second semester examinations, his admission for the said course will be cancelled.

• For students desiring to appear in any back paper(s), they would be required to fill up the examination forms.Those who fail in any paper in asemester or unable to appear in any semester or unable to submit forms for back papers of 2/3/4/5/6 may appear in those papers in subsequent semester examination within 6 Years, from date of admission to that course. A student must clear backlog papers (failed) within 6 years starting from the year of admission batch.
• Back papers are to be permitted in consecutive semesters for the first attempt at clearing back paper. Subsequent attempts will be allowed in alternate semester (eg :A student failing in a paper of Sem. I, will be allowed to appear for the paper in Sem II. If he fails to clear this back paper in Sem II, he will get the next opportunity in Sem IV, Sem VI etc. only) to ensure earliest opportunity to the student and timely conduct of regular paper exams.

3.ATTENDANCE:

1. A candidate shall be required to attend at least 75% of the lectures in theory and practical classes taken separately.
2. Condonation may be granted by the Principal (In case of affiliated Colleges) to the extent of 15% in exceptional cases i.e. serious illness & hospitalization, accident, mishap in the family or deputation by the college for any specific work for which the period of his/her absence shall not be counted towards the calculation of attendance on the condition that students concerned submit a certificate to that effect from the appropriate authority.
3. Further to the above, the Principal may grant further condoning of shortage in attendance to the extent of 10% in respect of candidates who represent the University or State for Inter-University or inter-state competitions in Games and Sports or attending different recognized National level camps.
4. Under no circumstance, the condoning shall be beyond 25%.
5. This clause shall not be applicable for Distance Education

5.DURATION OF THE EXAMINATIONS - MID SEMESTER & END SEMESTER:

The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) examination shall be implemented in Semester pattern.Exam timetable for the odd semester will be communicated by 20^th June and even semester by 7^th December. Each semester examination shall consist of a Mid-Semester (Internal) Examination and End Semester examination. Mid Semester examination shall be conducted only for theory papers. End Semester Examination in theory papers carrying full marks above 50(e.g. 60, 75, 80 etc) shall be of 3 hours duration and practical shall be of 3hours (for full marks carrying 25). On the other hand, theory papers carrying 50 marks or below shall be of 2 hours duration.

6.MID SEMESTER EXAMINATION:

1. Mid semester examination will be of 01 hour duration for 20/15 marks(20 for subjects having no practical and 15 for subject with practical papers). There shall be no pass mark in Mid Semester examination. The type of questions will be decided by the college authority.
2. The Mid-Semester Examination shall be conducted and valued by the Teacher(s) who are teaching the corresponding paper or any external faculty in the college(s). A student who fails to appear in a Mid-Semester Examination will be allowed one more chance to take the same examination. There will be no provision to re-appear in the Mid-Semester Examination for improvement.
3. The College has to conduct the Mid-Term Examination between September 15^th to 30^th October 15^th -31^st for1^st, 3^rd, & 5^thSemester and in between March 1-15^th for 2^nd, 4^th, & 6^th Semesterrespectively and will feed the marks online under the University/College Examination management System within 15 days from the date of examination. In case of First Semester Mid-Term, marks shall be fed by 30^th November.
4. The College authority will preserve the Answer Script of the Mid-term examination for 06 months from the date of publication of result for future reference.
5. The College authority at the valuation zones/University authority will preserve the Answer Script of the End-Term examination for 06 months from the date of publication of result for future reference.
6. For DDCE students, DDCE shall frame its policy for Mid-Term examination.

1. A student has to appear the Mid Term Examination. Absence in a Mid Term paper will be declared as failed in that Paper. A student who was absent in the Mid Term examination during both the chances but has passed at the University End Term examination shall be treated as failed in that Semester. Such candidates would be required to appear Mid- Semester Examinations in subsequent semester.

7.MARK DISTRIBUTION:

1. Subjects Without Practical :

2. Subjects With Practical :

8. Policy on DSE papers

1. DSE – 4 for Honors students (6^th Semester) will be a paper like the other three DSE papers. For students who have secured 60% in aggregate or above (or equivalent CGPA) in their first three semesters, colleges can exercise the option of offering a project to such students. Unless explicitly indicated in the respective subject curriculum, the recommended marking scheme will have about 60 % in the project report 40% in a Seminar cum Viva Voce). The Project paper will not have Mid-Sem. Examination and it will be evaluated byan Internal Examiner specified by the college.

2. DSE Papers for Hons. Students may or may not have the Practical component as proposed by the respective Board of Studies. If there is no practical, tutorial classes are allotted as per the 5+1 formula.

2. Individual faculty in colleges areto upload list of probable project topics under their guidance for a batch in the beginning of the fifth semester to facilitate the students. Evaluation of project shall be completed before the commencement of the 6^th Semester End Term Examination.

9.GRADE SYSTEM IN EACH PAPER (MID +END SEM EXAM) IN A SEMESTER

1. GRADING SYSTEM

• The candidate obtaining Grade-F is considered failed and will be required to clear the back paper(s) in thesubsequent examinations within the stipulated time.
• For candidate in both Pass andHonours Coursessecuring ‘B’ Grade and above in aggregate in their first appearance will be awarded Distinction. However, students who could not appear at an examination due to their representing the University or State for Inter-University or inter-state competitions in Games and Sports at national/international level or attending National level NCC/NSS camps will get one chance exemption for distinction.
• AIL/MP/HARD CASE and Back Paper Clearance candidates in any Semester Examination are not eligible for award of Distinction.

9.2A student’s level of competence shall be categorized by a GRADE POINT AVERAGE to be specified as :

SGPA -     Semester Grade Point Average CGPA -                  Cumulative Grade Point Average

1. GRADEPOINT        - Integer equivalent of each letter grade

2. CREDIT -Integer signifying the relative emphasis of individual course item(s) in a semester as indicated by the Course structure and syllabus.

CREDIT POINT:           (b) x (a) for each course item

CREDIT INDEX:               ∑ CREDIT POINT of     course items ineach Semester GRADE POINT AVERAGE =    CREDIT INDEX

∑CREDIT SEMESTER GRADE POINT AVERAGE (SGPA) =

CREDIT INDEX for each Semester

∑ CREDIT

CUMULATIVE GRADE POINT AVERAGE (CGPA) =

CREDIT INDEXof all previous Semesters up to the 6^th Semester

∑ CREDIT

9.3. Paper Type, Subject, Credit, Grade, SGPA& CGPA in the last semester Result shall be reflected in the Grade Sheet.

1. The details of grading system shall be printed on the backside of University Mark-sheet.

9.5Formula for Equivalent Percentage of Marks:

The following formula will be used to obtain the equivalent percentage of marks for the CGPA awarded to the students of the University.

9.6Illustration of Computation of SGPA and CGPA and Format for Transcripts B.A. / B.Sc. / B.Com. Honors Course

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Semester 5                         Semester 6

  Thus, CGPA = (22 x 6.8 + 22 x 6.73 + 28 x 9.07 + 28 x 7.5 + 24 x 7.75 + 24 x 8.0)/ 148 = 7.7

2.B. Sc. PASS Course