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Regulations pertaining to Credits, Academic Programmes and Award of Degrees:

6. Examination and Evaluation:
6.1 The university shall adopt the guidelines issued by the UGC and other statutory bodies
concerned from time to time in respect of conduct of examinations.
6.2 The units of evaluation, namely, tests, seminars, presentations, class performance, field
work, and the like and the weightage assigned to each of such units in respect of each
course shall be determined by the appropriate academic body of the university, and
shall be made known to the students at the beginning of the academic session of the
year, the semester or the trimester, as the case may be.
6.3 The nature of final examination, whether written or oral or both, in respect of each
course shall also be made known to the students at the beginning of the academic
session.

6.4 There shall be continuous sessional evaluation in each course in addition to trimester/
semester/year-end examinations, and the weightage for sessional evaluation and
examination in respect of each course shall be prescribed by the appropriate academic
body, and made known to the students at the beginning of the academic session.
6.5 If the university follows grading system, it shall work out and adopt a table of conversion
of grades into percentages and vice-versa.
6.6 If the fieldwork or project work is prescribed as an integral part of a course, the
weightage assigned to it should reflect the time spent on it.

6.7 The question papers for the examinations shall be set in such a manner as to ensure that
they cover the entire syllabus of the concerned course.

6.8 The tests and examinations shall aim at evaluating not only the student’s ability to
recall information, which he/she had memorized, but also his/her understanding of the
subject and ability to synthesize scattered bits of information into a meaningful whole.
Some of the questions shall be analytical and invite original thinking or application of
theory.
6.9 While the actual process of evaluation shall be confidential, the system of evaluation
shall be sufficiently transparent, and a student may be given a photocopy of his/her
answer paper, if requested as per procedure laid down in this regard.
7. Physical Facilities:
7.1 Every university shall lay down the norms in respect of classrooms, laboratories, library,
sports and health facilities, hostel accommodation, canteen/ cafeteria and such other
facilities. All the institutions admitted to its privileges shall adhere to the same. While
prescribing the norms for such facilities as a condition for affiliation, the university
shall keep in view the guidelines/norms issued by the UGC and other statutory bodies
concerned.

7.2 The lecture classes shall normally have not more than 60 students, unless, in special
cases, the institution has accommodation for larger classes and makes suitable audio-
visual arrangements for effective lecturing accompanied by tutorial classes.

7.3 For tutorials, a group shall not ordinarily be more than 20 students.
7.4 For laboratory sessions, the size of a group shall depend upon the size of the laboratory,
its type related to the specificity of the subject, the facilities available including
the possibility or otherwise of controlling and supervising a number of students
simultaneously through a central control panel, and such other devices. The ideal
number of students for a normal laboratory session in subjects like Physics, Chemistry

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