Best past scores to assess all UG & PG students of CU

Best past scores to assess all UG & PG students of CU

Internal Marks To Be Sent To Univ By July 10

Somdatta.Basu@timesgroup.com

Kolkata: 03.07.2020

The best aggregate marks secured by a Calcutta University undergraduate student in Part I and Part II examinations, along with his or her best score in the past three years’ internal assessment, will make up the final scores.

At the meeting of the Calcutta University Syndicate, the institute’s highest administrative decision-making body, members decided that 80% of a students’ final marks will be from the best score of the previous two years (Part I and Part II), while the best internal assessment score would make up the rest 20%. CU-affiliated colleges have been asked to send internal assessment scores of previous three years of each student appearing for Part III to the university by July 10. “The internal assessment marks will be posted on the CU website after the result is published. The answerscripts will have to be preserved by colleges, which might need to send those to the university if required. Regarding ‘back’ papers, the marks will be awarded, based on the best score obtained in the remaining qualified papers of that year,” said CU vicechancellor Sonali Chakravarti Banerjee. The decision to put the internal scores on public domain was taken to ensure transparency.

This is the last year, when BA and BSc students at CU are being assessed on the old 1+1+1 system. Students up to the UG second year in both humanities and science faculties are assessed on choice-based credit system (CBCS). The semester system was introduced to the commerce section ahead of the Arts and science faculties. “For end-semester BCom students, 80% of their marks will be based on the best aggregate percentage of the last five semesters and 20% from their best performance in internal assessments” the VC said.

For fourth- or end-semester PG students, 80% marks will be based on the best aggregate percentage of previous three semesters and the rest 20% on internal assessment to be decided by their departments through individual department councils and faculty councils. The internal assessment scores will have to be sent to heads of departments by July 10.

In professional courses, such as engineering and technology, management and law, 80% of a candidate’s final score will be on internal assessment or mid-semester exams or the best of the aggregates of previous semesters and 20% on assignments. “This is only for the 2019-20 academic session,” said Chakravarti Banerjee.

The CU’s announcements came five days after the government on Saturday stated endsemester UG as well as PG students will be evaluated, based on 80% weightage to their best aggregate percentage in any of the previous semesters’ results (five semesters in UG and three in PG) and 20% on internal assessment of the current semester. For those in the 1+1+1 system, the best aggregate secured in the past two exams will be considered. Unhappy with these assessments, if some students wish to appear for a formal exam as and when it is held, they will have to apply through a process to be notified by the university concerned. Its results will be published within a month of the tests being held. The final scores will be revised, according to the special exam marks.