Viveknanda Govt. Degree College

Awareness on Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)- An Overview

By

Dr.J Chinna Babu

Academic coordinator

Vivekananda Govt.Degree College

Vidyanagar, Hyderabad.

Types of Courses in CBCS System

1.      Core Course: A course, which should compulsorily be studied by a candidate as a core requirement is termed as a Core course.

1. Elective Course: Generally a course which can be chosen from a pool of courses and which may be very specific or specialized or advanced or supportive to the discipline/ subject of study or which provides an extended scope or which enables an exposure to some other discipline/subject/domain or nurtures the candidate's proficiency/skill is called an Elective Course.

Elective Course:

1. Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Course: Elective courses may be offered by the main discipline/subject of study is referred to as Discipline Specific Elective, The University/Institute may also offer discipline related Elective courses of interdisciplinary nature (to be offered by main discipline/subject of study).
2. Generic Elective (GE) Course: An elective course chosen generally from an unrelated discipline/subject, with an intention to seek exposure is called a Generic Elective. P.S.: A core course offered in a discipline/subject may be treated as an elective by other discipline/subject and vice versa and such electives may also be referred to as Generic Elective.
3. Dissertation/Project: An elective course designed to acquire special/advanced knowledge, such as supplement study/support study to a project work, and a candidate studies such a course on his own with an advisory support by a teacher/faculty member is called dissertation/project.
4.    A Project/Dissertation work may be given in lieu of a discipline specific elective paper.
5. Ability Enhancement Courses (AEC):The Ability Enhancement (AE) Courses may be of two kinds: Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC) and Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC). "AECC" courses are the courses based upon the content Knowledge enhancement; i. Environmental Science and ii. Gender sensitization. These are mandatory disciplines. SEC courses are value-based and/or skill-based and are aimed at providing hands-on-training, competencies, skills, etc
6. Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC): Environmental Science, Gender sensitization, English Communication/Gender sensitization
7. Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC): These courses may be chosen from a pool of courses designed to provide value-based and/or skill-based knowledge.

Examination Method

•      Two Internal exams (average of two) -  15 M

        (No re-exam for Internal exam)

•      One assignment                                          5M

•      End semester examination                       80M

Total                                                                   100M

Pass Marks -  (40 %)                                            40M

 Pass Marks -an Example      

•      No Internal Exam for Practical .

•      End semester Examination for 25 marks and 1 credit

•      I, III, V  Practical examination evaluation by internal examiner

•      II, IV & VI Practical evaluation by  External examiner.

Detention/ promotion:

•      No detention from I to II SEM  But Exam registration  for SEM I and getting hall ticket is must

•       But to promote  from II SEM to III SEM, the candidate has clear at least 50 % of papers, otherwise he will be detained .

                               Promotion from II SEM to III SEM

No detention from III to IV SEM

 But Exam registration  for SEM III is must

Promotion from IVSEM to V SEM

Award of Letter Grade and Grade Point

The SGPA is the ratio of sum of the product of the number of credits with the grade points scored by a student in all the courses taken by a student and the sum of the number of credits of all the courses undergone by a student, i.e

SGPA (Si) = Σ(Ci x Gi) / Σci

where Ci is the number of credits of the ith course and Gi is the grade point scored by the student in the ith course.

ii. The CGPA is also calculated in the same manner taking into account all the courses undergone by a student over all the semesters of a programme, i.e.

CGPA = Σ(Ci x Si) / Σ Ci

where Si is the SGPA of the ith semester and Ci is the total number of credits in that semester.

Calculation of SGPA– an example

SGPA =  Total Credit points/ Total Credits

SGPA = 201/27 = 7.44