Examinations / Internal assessment

                    

1.    The Annual Examinations are held in the College as per the guidelines of the University of Delhi.

                    

2.    25% of the maximum marks in each paper in undergraduate courses shall be assigned through Internal Assessment, and the remaining 75% marks through the Annual University Examination; the time duration and other modalities of the Annual Examination with respect to this 75% component shall remain as per existing schemes of examination for various undergraduate courses.

       

 (i)    (a) As per the new rules 10% weightage shall be assigned to House Examinations to be conducted by the college preferably in the beginning of the third term or else, towards the end of the second term, for all courses in which annual examinations are held. The House Examination shall be conducted for all subjects in B.A. (Programme) / B.Com Pass course and in all main and concurrent subjects in Honours courses. House examination will not be conducted for qualifying subjects.

        

        (b) Ordinarily, before the conduct of the House Examinations, at least two-thirds of the syllabus would be covered in papers taught during the given academic year.

       

       (c) The duration of each paper in the House Examination shall be the same as that of the University Examination. The maximum marks for each paper of the House Examination shall be 100 or the same as that of the corresponding University Examination. The marks obtained shall be subsequently scaled down appropriately as per university guidelines.

        

        (d) The scripts of the House Examination shall be shown to the students (who may be allowed to make a photocopy of their own scripts if they so wish). The University reserves the right to scrutinize some or all the scripts of any paper in any course in a College prior to the declaration of D.U. results. A copy of the question paper shall be sent to the Examination Branch of the University and a proper record of the question paper of the House Examination shall be maintained by the College.

        

       (e) Every teacher shall submit a copy of the result of the House Examination in the college office immediately after the scripts have been shown to the students and he/she shall maintain a record of the marks with him/her.

        

(ii)   (a) Each student shall be assessed on the basis of written assignments/ tutorials as well as on the basis of project  reports / term papers / seminars. 10% weightage shall be for such written assignment / project reports / presentations / term papers / seminars. In the beginning of the session, every teacher shall provide a list of questions for written assignments/tutorials and an illustrative list of topics on which students can prepare projects. Each student shall be given at least one written assignment per paper each term, subject to a minimum of 12 written assignments per year for all the papers taken together.

        

        (b) Where the maximum marks in a paper are less than 100, for example 50 marks, the nature of written assignments/tutorial work shall stand adjusted pari passu.

        

        (c) The score of written assignments / tutorials shall be submitted to the college office at the end of each term along with the attendance record, and the score for project reports / term papers / seminars shall be submitted at the end of the third term.

        

(iii)   (a) 5% weightage shall be given for attending lectures and tutorials. The credit for attendance in each paper, shall be as follows:

                        Attendance                        Marks

                        More than 67% but less than 70%                    1 mark

                        70% or more but less than 75%                        2 marks

                        75% or more but less than 80%                        3 marks

                        80% or more but less than 85%                        4 marks

                        85% and above                                                      5 marks

        

        (b) The attendance for each term will be compiled by the college administration and displayed on the Notice Board within a week of the end of the first and second terms respectively, and by 28th March for the third term;

        

         (c) At the end of the third term, the attendance of every student in each paper in lectures and tutorials will be summed up, converted into percentage, and marks awarded for Internal Assessment by the teacher.

        

 (iv)  The marks scored by the candidates in all the three components (i.e. House Examination, written assignments, and attendance) will be summed-up, and scaled-down appropriately as per D.U. guidelines.

 

 (v)    There shall be a Moderation Committee for Internal Assessment in the College, discipline-wise, comprising the senior most teacher in the department, the present and previous teachers-in-charge of the department.

               

3.     The internal assessment marks will be shown separately in the Mark Sheet issued by the University and the same will be added, to the annual examination marks for determining the overall percentage of marks obtained by the candidate.