MOHANLAL SUKHADIA UNIVERSITY,

UDAIPUR
GENERAL REGULATION FOR POST-GRADUATE & UNDERGRADUATE
EXAMINATION(SEMESTER SCHEME)
( Effective from 16th September 2011)

Common examination rules for Post Graduate (semester), Undergraduate (Semester)

and professional courses Examination from session 2011-12 based on the Resolution
6 of the Academic Council dated 16th September 2011. These rules shall be
applicable to all the candidates appearing in the post-graduate examination
(Semester) and undergraduate course First Semester examination from year
2011.

1. From session 2011-12, the examinations in each paper of all post graduate
semester courses M.A./M.Com./M.Sc. etc., including professional courses M.B.A
and courses under Choice Based Credit System like M.C.A/M.Sc.(IT) etc. and
undergraduate semester courses B.B.M, B.M.S, B.C.A consist of continuous
evaluation through internal assessment and external examinations.

2. The internal assessment marks shall be 25% of maximum marks of each paper
and remaining 75% marks shall be based on external examination conducted by
the university.

3. Syllabus of each paper shall consist of five units and the question paper for the external
examination shall consist of two parts. The first part, Part-A, shall consist of 45 Multiple
Choice Questions (MCQ type) covering the entire syllabus and shall be of 90 minutes
duration. The second part, Part-B, shall consist five long answer questions (which
requires answers in about 300-400 words for each), one from each unit out of which three
questions must be attempted by the candidate within remaining 90 minutes duration of
the examination. For a paper of maximum 75 marks, each question in the part-A will
carry 1 marks and part B will carry 10 marks. Thus, the maximum marks for Part A will
be 45 marks and that for Part B will be 30 marks.

4. External examination in Part-A (MCQ type) shall be conducted using OMR answer sheet
whereas for PART-B, answer booklet with pre-printed questions and space for writing
answer shall be provided.
5. The internal assessment in each paper for regular students shall be made through
written examinations, assignments, oral examinations, seminars etc. depending
the requirements of the course. The distribution of Internal marks for a theory
paper shall be as follows:

(a) Assignments/seminars/oral examination etc.: 40% of the internal assessment

marks (i.e 10 out of 25 marks) for each theory paper shall be awarded on the basis
of the performance in the assignments/seminars/oral examination/group
discussions/review etc.
(b) Internal written examination: 40% of the total internal assessment marks (ie 10
out of 25 marks) for each theory paper will be awarded on the basis of the
performance in the descriptive type written examination conducted by the
department. At least one written examination of one and half hours duration shall
be conducted by the department. If a candidate fails to appear in the written
examination of the internal assessment due to valid reasons, department may
conduct defaulters examination after collecting prescribed fee.

Note: Since external examination question papers in compulsory and qualifying

papers will be MCQ type, Internal written examinations and assignments for
these papers must be conducted to assess writing and comprehension ability of
the student. In the case of compulsory paper of Elementary Computer
Applications, regular students are required to carry out computer practical in their
college. The internal marks for assignments in this paper shall be awarded based
on performance of the candidates in computer laboratory assignments.

(c) Regularity and conduct etc.: 20% of the total internal assessment marks (ie. 5
out of 25 marks)for each paper will be awarded on the basis of the regularity and
conduct of the student in the class.

6. In the case of practical papers, 80% of the total internal marks in each practical
paper (ie 20 out of 25 marks) shall be awarded based on the number of
 experiments satisfactorily performed regularly by the candidate as evidenced by
signature of the teacher concerned in the practical record/report submitted by the
candidate. Remaining 20% of the internal marks will be awarded based on
regularity and conduct of the student in the laboratory.

7. Timely and proper evaluation of the assignments and answer books of the written
examination shall be mandatory for the teachers. Teachers assigned for teaching
of each paper shall make internal evaluations and shall be responsible for the
marks awarded to the students. Internal marks awarded by teacher is expected to
follow appropriate statistical distribution based on performance of students in the
assignment/written examination. Marks awarded in assignments, written
examination etc. must be announced within 15 days from the day of assessment.
Teachers shall be required to invite feedbacks as well as grievances from students.

8. The Internal marks will be awarded by the teacher concerned and shall be put for
consideration of a committee consisting of Head of the Department, Teacher
concerned and a Senior teacher of the Department. In case of colleges, the
committee shall constitute the teacher concerned, Principal, Head of the
department/a senior teacher from sister departments. The committee will ensure
that norms given for internal evaluations are followed in the award of internal
marks for each theory & practical paper. Detailed break up of the internal marks,
internal examination answer books along with attendance of the candidate must
be submitted to the university.

8. The internal assessment marks awarded by the Department/college shall be

further subjected to scaling the university based on a scaling factor derived from
average internal marks awarded by the college and average external marks
awarded by the external examiner. While calculating scaling factor, internal and
external marks awarded below 25% of maximum marks shall not be considered
for class average calculation.
11. Minimum passing marks and criteria for promotion to next higher classes
11.1. In all the PG (semester) courses, except in professional courses like MBA and
courses under Choice based Credit System like MCA/M.Sc(IT) etc. & B.B.M., B.C.A
etc to pass in each semester examinations , a candidate shall be required to obtain (i)
at least 25% marks separately in internal as well as external examinations in each
theory paper and (ii) at least 25% marks separately in internal as well as external
examinations in each theory paper (iii) 36% marks in aggregate of all the papers of
the semester separately.

11.2 A candidate may be promoted to the next semester if he or she has secured at
least 25% marks in each papers (Internal & external separately) but has failed to
secure 36% marks in aggregate. He/she shall be required appear in one or more of the
papers of the papers as and when these papers are offered again by the university so
as to satisfy the passing criteria laid in 11.1. However, candidate will not be allowed
to reappear in the practical papers to improve the percentage.

11.3 A candidate may be promoted to the next semester if he/she has secured at least
25% marks in two third of the total number of papers in a semester (four papers
where total number of papers in a semester is six, in three papers where total number
of papers in a semester is five), provided that aggregate of marks in all papers
together is at least 36%. Such candidate shall be required to appear in papers in which
he/she has secured less than 25% marks when these courses are offered again so as to
satisfy the passing criteria laid in 11.1

11.4 A candidate fails to satisfy the criteria 11.1, 11.2, and 11.3 for promotion to next
higher semester shall be required to rejoin the semester in which he/she has failed to
satisfy the above criteria, if otherwise eligible in accordance with the university
regulations laid in this regard.

11.5 Internal marks will be carry forwarded provided the candidate has passed in the
Internal assessment. Department/College shall be required to conduct a written
examination for those candidates who have failed in Internal assessment and award
marks out of maximum prescribed internal marks.
12.In case result of a semester/year is not declared by the university, before the
starting of the next higher semester/year, the students who have appeared in all the
papers in the semester will be allowed to attend the class of the next higher semester
at their own risk. Candidates who are not eligible to be promoted to the next higher
semester/class will have to leave that semester.
13. Re-evaluation
(a) Re-evaluation shall be allowed in 25% of the total theory papers provided a
candidate apply for re-evaluation within 10 days from the date of declaration of
examination results.
(b) In case of increase in the marks after re-evaluation is 10% or more of the
original marks awarded, marks obtained after re-evaluation will be awarded to the
candidates. If the increase is more than 20% of the maximum marks, average of
original marks and re-evaluated marks shall be awarded.
(c) No re-evaluation shall be allowed in internal assessment as well as practical by
the university. In case of grievance if any in the marks awarded by the teacher in
each component of the internal assessment , suitable grievance system will be
developed by the college concerned for redressal of the grievances of the students
within three days from declaration of marks by the teacher in the class.
(d) University shall not entertain any grievances against the reduction, if any, in the
internal marks made by the university as a result of scaling. Scaling is an essential
component required in the evaluation system where internal assessment marks
are awarded by the teacher/college concerned so that teacher/college level bias &
disparities in marks can be removed.
14. Award of Degree
Division will be awarded at the end of the Final Examination on the combined
marks obtained at the Previous and Final Examination taken as under:
First Division 60 percent or above of the aggregate marks
Second Division 48 percent or above of the aggregate marks
Third Division 36 percent or above of the aggregate marks
15. Minimum passing marks for Professional courses like
M.B.A/M.C.A/M.Sc.(IT)etc. and B.B.M.(Semester), B.C.A(semester.)
a. The passing marks for professional courses like MBA, MCA, MIB, MHRM,
BCA,BBM etc shall be 40% in individual papers and 50% in aggregate. In
addition to this, candidate shall also be required to pass in external examination
by scoring a minimum of 40% marks in each paper.

b. Wherever the professional bodies like AICTE/Bar Council/Pharmacy council etc

have laid down the passing marks /promotion criterion for a course, the same shall
be followed.
c. Internal marks of the failed candidates shall be carry forwarded
d. For courses under Choice Based Credit System(CBCS) all rules except the pattern
of question paper shall be the same as that of examination rules of CBCS 2011.

Note: All other examination rules will remain as same as that followed for Post
Graduate and Undergraduate Semester examinations 2011

REGISTRAR

24th September 2011