Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)
To focus on Student Centric Education, the college has adopted Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) from the year 2002. This system is followed with a view to equip the students with the Transdisciplinary and multi-tasking skills.
Total credits to be earned to qualify for award of respective degrees by the students
Undergraduate Programmes 144 Credits
Postgraduate Programmes 94 Credits
MSc Software Systems (five year integrated) 238 Credits
CBCS with Out Come Based Education frame work incorporates Major Courses, Discipline Specific Elective Courses, Ability Enhancement Courses, Skill Enhancement Courses, Internship / Industrial Training and Project Work/ Innovation/ Start-Up. A student centric learning and teaching methodology focussing to achieve stated objectives and outcomes of the course brings flexibility in learning and clarity among teachers and students. It helps the institution, to measure learning outcomes, to develop new skills and make students globally competitive.
Continuous Assement (CA) & Comprehensive Examinations (CE)
Continuous assement (CA)
Continuous Assessment Components for a semester include skill innovative components and two tests.
Comprehensive examination (CE)
Comprehensive Examinations (Theory and practical) shall be conducted twice a year, in November/December and in April/May and assessed by internal and external examiners. Students having a minimum of 75% of attendance in theory / practicals will be permitted to appear for comprehensive examinations in any semester. Students with minimum 75% of attendance in practical classes are eligible to submit their record note books and appear for both the CA and CE practical examinations. Students shall be permitted to appear for the practical examinations only with the submission of bonafide records. All failed candidates shall be governed by the regulations and syllabus in force at the time of their subsequent appearances.
Rules in Examination Halls
- Students’ are not allowed to enter the hall 30 minutes after the commencement of exam; and cannot leave the hall within 30 minutes of the start of the exam.
- Strict silence must be maintained in the examination venues.
- Malpractices in any form in Comprehensive Examination and Continuous Assessment will be punished in accordance with the categories mentioned below:
Special Provisions
Facility to Reappear in an Examination / Examinations Already Passed
Candidates who have passed in Examination / Examinations of UG/PG programmes may be permitted to appear again (only once) for the Comprehensive Examination / Examinations of the Programme / Programmes under regulations and syllabus in force then, with a view to improve their attainments, if they do not show improvement, their previous results shall hold good. Such candidates shall not apply for their degree certificates in the convocations held in between. Also such reappearances shall be made at the examination(s) conducted in the College in the next two semesters.
Additional Supplementary Examination
To provide an opportunity to the final year UG, PG and Add-on career oriented course students to complete their programmes in the same year itself and to help them for vertical mobility, additional supplementary comprehensive examination is conducted in June every year in the final semester subjects.
Special Supplementary Examination
A special supplementary examination is conducted in June / July every year, to facilitate the students who have failed in only one subject from first to fifth semester in case of UG and MCA, from first to third semester in case of other PG and first to Ninth semester in case of MSc Software Systems (five year intergrated course), to complete their programme in the same year itself.
Facility to Qualify in Extra Subjects
Candidates desirous of qualifying themselves in subjects other than those prescribed for the programmes can appear for the Comprehensive Examinations in those extra subjects with prior permission. Attendance is not compulsory for those subjects. The performance of the candidates in extra subjects will not be taken into account for grading.
Facility to Write CE in English / Tamil
Students of Undergraduate Programmes have the liberty to write their comprehensive examinations either in English or Tamil. A student who wishes to write the examination in Tamil shall submit a letter to the Controller of Examination before they payment of exam fee. Request for change to write in Tamil after payment of the examination fees will not be entertained. Postgraduate students are not be permitted to write their examinations in Tamil.
Scribe
Physically and visually challenged students shall seek the assistance of Scribes and shall avail one-hour extra time to write the Comprehensive Examination. The students shall use this facility by submitting permission letter along with the medical certificate one week prior to the examination every semester.
- The details of Scribe such as qualification, subject studied, permanent identity should be submitted before the examinations.
- The Scribe should lesser have qualification than the candidate and should not belong to the same major.
An Autonomous College
Affiliated to Bharathiar University
Accredited with ‘A++’ Grade by NAAC (4th cycle)
College with Potential for Excellence
(Status Awarded by the UGC)
Star College Status Awarded by DBT-MST
An ISO 9001 : 2015 Certified Institution.
