MANUAL FOR PREPARATION OF BCA Minor Projects

(Prescribed Format and Specifications)

1. GENERAL :

The manual is intended to provide broad guidelines to BCA students in the

preparation of the project report. In general, the project report, in an organized and
scholarly fashion, is an account of original work of the students leading to techniques
or correlation of facts already known (analytical, experimental, hardware oriented
etc) and demonstrating definite contribution to the advancement of knowledge and
the student ability to present the findings in an appropriate manner with actual
accomplishments of the work plainly stated and honestly appraised.

2. NUMBER OF COPIES TO BE SUBMITTED FOR EVALUATION:

BCA Report: Two hard copies and one soft copy in CD are to be submitted to the
concerned department.

3. SIZE OF PROJECT REPORT:

The size of report should not generally exceed 50-60 pages for BCA, reckoned from
the first page to the last page of the project report, printing on single side of the
paper.

4. ARRANGEMENT OF CONTENTS OF PROJECT REPORT:

The sequence in which the project should be arranged and bound should be as
follows:

(A) Cover Page : Specimen copy attached, Annexure – I, II, III for respectively.

(B) Inner Title Page (like cover page) specimen copy attached, Annexure – I

(C) Company letter signed with your respective guide of company.(if any)

(D) Student’s Declaration : specimen copy attached, Annexure – IV

(E) Acknowledgement : specimen copy attached, Annexure – V

Main Text of the project : The main text will be divided into several chapters
and each chapter may be further divided into several divisions and sub-
divisions. (Typed in font size 12 double spacing) e.g.
(i) Introduction
(ii) Objective
(iii) Methodology
(iv) Details of Project Report Work
(v) Result & Discussion
(vi) Conclusion and recommendation for further studies.
 - Each chapter should be given as appropriate title. (Title of Chapter Font
size 16) division & subdivision (font size 14)
- Footnotes should be used sparingly. They should be typed single space
and font size 10 and placed directly underneath in the very same page,
which refers to the material they annotate.

 Table of Contents : The table of contents should list all material following it
as well as any material, which precedes it. The inner title page, declaration
and acknowledgement will not find a place among the items listed in the
Table of Contents but the page numbers in lower case Roman letters are to
be accounted for them. Single spacing (in Arial) should be adopted for typing
the matter in font size 16.

 List of Tables : The list should use exactly the same captions as they appear
above the tables in the text. Font size 16 in Arial in single spacing should be
adopted for typing the matter under this head.
 List of Figures : All non-verbal material used in the project report and
appendices such as charts, maps, photographs, diagrams will be designated
as figures. The list of figures should use exactly the same captions as they
appear below the figures in the text. Single spacing in font size 16 in Arial
should be adopted for typing the matter under this head.
 List of Symbols, Abbreviations and Nomenclature : Single spacing in font
size 16 in Arial adopted for typing the matter under this head. Standard
symbols, abbreviations etc. should be used.
 Abstract : One page abstract in double space, font size 12 in Arial should be
used.

5. PAGE DIMENSIONS AND MARGIN :

5.1 The dimensions of the final bound 2 copies report should be on standard A4
size (297mm X 210mm) of good quality white paper.
5.2 The project report (at time of submission) should have the following page
margins :
- Left Margin ..........................3.5 cm.
- Right, Top & Bottom Margin ..............2.54 cm.

6. LIST OF REFERENCES:
Any work of other researchers, if used either directly or indirectly, the origin of the
material thus referred in the report should be indicated within a square bracket at
the appropriate place Author’s name [reference such as 1, 2, 3 ect]. A paper, a
monograph or a book may be designated as detailed below in the example of
citation.

Example of citation :
Paper : Author’s name “title” Journal’s name Vol. (No.) page....... (year)
Monograph : Author’s Name, Title, Institution, Publisher (Year).
Book : Author “Title of Book” Publisher (Year)
In case of more than 2 author, name of first author followed by et al.

REFERENCES :
(1) Ariponnammal S. and Natarajan S. ‘Transport Phenomena of Sm Se 1-x Asx’
Pramana – Journal of Physics Vol. 42 No. 5 pp. 421-425. (1994)
(2) Jankins G.M. and Walts D.G., Spectral Analysis and its Applications’ Holder
Day, Sanfrancisco (1968).
(3) Shin K..G. Mckay N.D. ‘Open loop minimum time control of mechanical
manipulations and its applications’, Proc. Amer Contr. Conf., San Diego, CA,
pp. 1231-1236 (1984).

A Project Report
 on (10 pt. Times New Roman)

<TITLE OF THE PROJECT WORK>(24pt. Bold Times New Roman)

Submitted for partial fulfillment of the requirements for the

of (10 pt. Times New Roman)

BACHELOR OF COMPUTER APPLICATION (14pt. Bold Times New

Roman)

BY

<Mr. / Ms. Name of the Student (Roll No.)>(12pt. Times New

Roman)

Under the guidance of (10 pt. Times New Roman)

<Name of the Guide>(10 pt. Times New Roman)

Designation(10 pt. Times New Roman)
Department of MCA(10 pt. Times New Roman)

University logo

Name of University (14pt. Bold Times New Roman)

 CERTIFICATE

This is to certify that the project work entitled “<Title Of The Project Work>” is
a bonafide work carried out by <Mr. / Ms. Name of the Student (Roll No.)> in partial
fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree of BACHELOR OF
COMPUTER APPLICATION by CCS UNIVERSITY, Meerut, under our guidance
and supervision.

The results embodied in this report have not been submitted to any other
university or institute for the award of any degree or diploma.

Name of Guide

<Designation>
 Annexure –IV

Student’s Declaration (font size 18)

I / We hereby declare that the work being presented in this report entitled “TITLE
OF THE PROJECT” (font size 16) is an authentic record of my / our

own work carried out under the supervision of Dr. /Mr. /Ms. “SUPERVISOR
NAME” (font size 16)

The matter embodied in this report has not been submitted by me / us for the award
of any other degree. (font size 14 Arial 1.5 Line Spacing)

Dated : Signature of students(s)

(Name(s)...(91....................)
Department:

This is to certify that the above statement made by the candidate(s) is correct to
the best of my knowledge.

Signature of HOD Signature of Supervisor

(Name ) (Name.............................)

(Name of Department) (Designation)

Date............................ (Name of Department)

 Annexure –V

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT (Font Size 18)

I would like to express my sincerest gratitude and indebtedness to

the person who gave me a moral and technical support& whose
kind assistance has been instrumental in completion to this
industrial training. It gives me immense pleasure to own my
humble gratefulness to my faculty ----------------- for this
indispensable guidance and providing necessary ideas and
facilities to carry out this project.

I would like to place on record my best regards and deepest sense

of gratitude to ------------------- (Department Head), ---------------
(Project Guide), of college name for their careful and precious
guidance which were extremely valuable for my study both
theoretically and practically.

Signature of Student
(Name of Student in Capital)
 LIST OF FIGURES

A list of figures with figure number, figure title and page number and a list of tables with
table number, table name and page number should be listed after abstract in a separate page
for each with roman numbers like ii, iii..etc.

FOR EXAMPLE:
LIST OF FIGURES

Figure 1.1 Block diagram of xyz model Page no. 4

Figure 2.2 ------------------------------------- --------------

LIST OF TABLES

FOR EXAMPLE:
LIST OF TABLES

Table 1.1 Name of the table Page no. 5

Table 2.2 -------------- ----------
 TABLE OF CONTENTS

Page No.
Certificate ...................................................................................................... i
Declaration .................................................................................................... ii
Acknowledgements ........................................................................................... iii
List of Figures ................................................................................................. iv
List of Tables ..................................................................................................... v
Abstract............................................................................................................. vi

CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION 01 – 05
1.1 Objectives 01
1.2 Problem specification 02
1.3 Methodologies 05

CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW

CHAPTER 3
PROBLEM DEFINITION
Modules and Their Functionalities
Hardware/ Software Requirement

CHAPTER 4
SYSTEM DESIGN
Data Flow Diagrams
UML Diagrams
ER Diagrams

CHAPTER 5
IMPLEMENTATION

CHAPTER 6
CONCLUSIONS & FUTURE ENHANCEMENTS
6.1 Observations
6.2 Result Analysis
6.3 Limitations
6.4 Future works

REFERENCES
APPENDIX
SAMPLE CODE SEGMENTS