Degree Requirements

• Course credits assignment

  Each course has a certain number of credits assigned to it depending upon its duration in periods for a lecture, tutorial, and laboratory/clinical practice in a week. A few courses/activities are without credit (s) and are referred to as Audit Pass Courses (APC) but are mandatory to pass as partial fulfillment of the award of a degree.

• Earning of Credits

  At the end of every course, a letter “Grade” shall be awarded in each course for which a student has registered. On obtaining a minimum Pass Grade, the student shall accumulate the course credits as Earned Credits. A student’s performance shall be measured by the number of credits that he/she has earned and by the weighted grade point average. Grades obtained in the audit courses shall not be counted for computation of grade point average, however, shall be mandatory to pass as partial fulfillment of the award of a degree.

Each course shall have credits assigned to it. The student shall be required to register courses every semester for as many courses/credits specified under the “Elective Courses Basket” depending upon his/her interest, capability/pace of learning, and availability of time slot (without any clash in time table) to earn all required total credits under the “Elective Courses Basket” during the entire programme duration.

However, for registration of courses [including courses under “Compulsory Courses Basket”, “Elective Courses Basket” and Previous Semester Courses (wherein he/she was declared ineligible based on attendance or he/she could not clear the course within permissible given chances)], if any, the maximum limit in a semester shall be 30 credits.