Off-Campus Work-Integrated Learning Programmes
SOME OPERATIONAL
HIGHLIGHTS
1. Registration and Fee
Payment: Each semester of the
Off-Campus Work-Integrated Learning Programmes begins with a mandatory
REGISTRATION process, which specifies the prescribed course package for each
student for that semester. The
Registration process for each semester is completed when the student sends the
duly signed Registration Card alongwith the payment
for the semester fees. The student has to pay the full semester fees for every
semester in which s/he registers, irrespective of the number of courses in
his/her prescribed course package.
2. Continuous Internal
Evaluation: BITS
follows continuous system of internal evaluation and letter grades A, B, C, D,
E carrying grade points 10, 8, 6, 4, 2 respectively are awarded for all courses
other than Dissertation/Project Work for which only non-letter grades namely
EXCELLENT, GOOD, FAIR, POOR are awarded. If a student does not offer adequate
opportunity for evaluation in a course, reports such as NC (Not cleared) may be
awarded.
3. Evaluation
Scheme: For each course in each
semester for the B.S. ET/IS and M.S. SS/MM programmes,
there will be typically 3 Evaluation Components (EC) spread over the
semester according to the dates specified in the Course Handout for each
course:
4. Evaluation Component
Description
Weightage Given & Evaluated by
EC-1 Assignment / Quiz (online) 15% BITS Faculty
EC-2 Mid-Semester Test (2 Hours) 35% BITS Faculty
EC-3 Comprehensive Exam (3 Hours) 50% BITS Faculty
EC-2
and EC-3 examinations are conducted only at the following Centres:
5. Grading Procedure: At the end of each semester, the
performance of each student in a course, is specified
as a LETTER GRADE (namely A, A-, B, B-, C, C-, D or E) which is obtained through a Relative
Grading procedure, which is described below.
The
final grading in each course is done by tabulating in descending order
(equivalently a histogram) the total marks obtained by all students in that
particular course. The performance of the course will be analyzed in terms of
average, highest and lowest marks and the dividing lines between various
clusters. Gaps between clusters and the nature of clusters will guide drawing
the dividing lines between various grades. In a normal class of large size, the
C-band will usually include the average mark. This is not a hard and fast rule
and exceptions may arise in cases of small classes or a skewed histogram etc.
6. Cumulative Grade
Point Average (CGPA): The CGPA
(calculated on a 10 point scale) will be used to describe the overall performance
of a student (from the semester of admission till the point of reckoning) in
all courses for which LETTER GRADES are awarded.
U1 G1 + U2
G2 + U3 G3 ……..
CGPA =
--------------------------------------------
U1
+ U2 + U3 …….
Where
U1, U2, U3 …….. denote
UNITS of the course, and G1,
G2, G3…. denote grade points of the LETTER GRADES awarded
in that course. Non-Letter grades do not go into computation of CGPA.
7. Minimum Academic
Requirements: Subject to
fulfilling the Academic Regulations of the Institute, the student will be
issued a grade sheet at the end of each semester, a Transcript and a
Provisional Certificate followed by the Final Degree Certificate at the end of
the programme.
The minimum academic
requirements for successful completion of our M.S. programmes
require that a student obtains a minimum CGPA of 5.50 and no E grade in any
course. For B.S. programmes, the
student should obtain a minimum CGPA of 4.50 and no E grade in any course.
No student can register in any other course of his/her degree along with
Dissertation in MS or Project work in BS.
Failure to meet the
minimum academic requirements will bring the student under the purview of
Academic Monitoring Board (AMB), which will prescribe a suitable course package
for the student and monitor his/her progress and academic performance closely.
8. Dissertation /
Project Work:
The students enrolled in
B.S. programmes will have to register for a full
semester Project work in their final semester.
The students of M.S. programmes will be
required to register for a full semester Dissertation in their final semester.
Each student should
complete all prescribed coursework of the programme
and fulfill the minimum academic requirements before s/he can register for
Project Work or Dissertation in her/his final semester of the programme. If the
academic performance of the student falls below the minimum requirements, s/he
will be required to register in some courses again in a subsequent semester to
improve her/his CGPA, before s/he can register for Project Work/Dissertation.
As admissions to the Off-Campus Work-Integrated Learning Programmes are
based on various factors like student employment, employer consent, mentor
consent, etc, any student changing his/her employer or mentor should inform
Dean immediately and get such changes approved, failing which the student
would be Discontinued from the Programme (DP),
resulting in his/her name getting struck off the rolls of the institute.