Course Work

There shall be a compulsory Course Work of minimum one-semester duration as a pre- requisite for the confirmation of registration of students admitted provisionally. The course work shall consist of one Course on research methodology and the remaining Course(s) shall be as prescribed by the School Board/Board of Studies/Departmental Research Committee. Every such pre-requisite course shall carry 12 credits.

No student shall be allowed to register for the Course Work after the expiry of the notified deadline.

Those who have already completed the course work in M.Phil programme with the required CGPA score, and have been permitted to proceed to the Ph.D. programme in integrated course, may be exempted by the D.R.C. from the Ph.D. course work. In case of a direct D, the candidates who have passed M.Phil Degree with Course Work as per the UGC Regulations (Minimum Standards and Procedure for award of M.Phil./Ph.D. Degree, 2009), shall be exempted from the requirements of Course Work. All other candidates admitted to the Ph.D. programme shall be required to complete the Ph.D. course work prescribed by the Department.

The University shall adopt the 10-point Grading System, with the Letter Grades as given under:

Note:

1. F= Fail, and the students graded with ‘F’ in a programme or course shall be required to re-appear in the
2. The minimum qualifying marks for a course or programme shall be 55% or SGPA/CGPA of 5.
3. The students shall have to qualify the Internal Assessment and the End- Semester examinations in the aggregate.
4. There shall be no rounding off of SGPA/CGPA.
5. The SGPA/CGPA obtained by a student shall be out of the maximum of 10 points.
6. In order to be eligible for the award of the M.Phil degree of the University, a student must obtain the CGPA of 5.5 or 55% marks in aggregate at the end of the programme.

The student who is otherwise eligible for the award of the degree but has secured a SGPA/CGPA of less than 5.5  or 55% marks at  the end  of the permissible period  of semesters may be allowed by the Department concerned to repeat the same course(s) or other courses of the same type in lieu thereof in the extra semesters provided in Clause 5 on “Duration of Programme”.

A student for whom pre-requisite courses are prescribed shall be required to clear the Course Work within the first semester. The registration of such students shall be confirmed only if he/she has qualified minimum 12 credits with a minimum CGPA of the Course Work may be designed by the Department as under:

1. One paper on Research Methodology, which may include the basic components of research techniques, tools, understanding of specific manual/style-sheet, format of article/dissertation/thesis, different types of citations, plagiarism, IPR, quantitative methods, computer applications,
2. One subject-specific paper
3. The Course Work may include instrumentation, communication skills, seminar presentation, review of published research, and other topics as specified in the prescribed manual or style sheet (MLA/APA/Chicago etc.), field work and other activities specified in the Course Work. Evaluation shall be done by the faculty members of the University Department/School concerned.

There shall be 60% weightage for the Course Work End-semester examinations and 40% weightage shall be given as internal assessment on the basis of assignments/presentations/ projects and other research-based activities during the semester.

The candidates failing to obtain a minimum CGPA of 5.5 may be allowed to continue with provisional registration for a maximum period of one more semester during which the candidate would be required to fulfil the minimum required He/She shall be allowed to reappear in the next end-semester examination. No further chance will be given to the candidate.

The candidates are required to complete a minimum residency period of two years from the date of registration.