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Study Process

Working Hours
The College works for a minimum of 90 days in a Semester and classes are conducted on all the week days. If necessary special classes can be held on weekends owing to time constraints. The minimum contact class hours for a paper will be around 60 hours.
(a) For UG progammes, the classes start by 9.00 am and ends by 3.00 pm. 
(b) For PG Diploma, Diploma and Certificate programmes it is fixed as 60 hours/paper for a period of 90 days in a Semester. Classes are held in the evenings of all days in a week including Saturdays and Sundays depending on the number of hours required to be taught for each course. The minimum contact class hours for a paper is around 60 hours. In that sense, all courses are full-fledged full time courses. Every day, the classes are conducted in three shifts taking into account the mutual convenience of the teachers and the students.
Attendance
The courses taught in the Community College are of technical nature that require continuous learning and undivided attention on the subjects. The College believes that regular attendance in the class and constant interaction with faculty can widen the mental horizon and knowledge of students. Therefore, the College requires the students to attend all the theory and practical classes regularly. Wherever this is not possibleeach student should earn at least 75% of attendance in each of the papers individually, failing which he/she will not be permitted to appear for the end semester examinations. 17 Post Graduate, Diploma and Certificate programmes also follow the same norms. Further, the attendance earned by a student is taken into consideration for internal assessment (5 marks out of 25 marks in each paper). The above 5 marks are awarded as follows:
For attendence

Below 75 % of attendance

 

   No marks

76 % to 80%

-

   1 Mark

81% to 85%

-

   2 Marks

86% to 90%

-

   3Marks

91% to 95%

-

   4 Marks

96% to 100%

-

   5 Marks

Medium of Instruction
Medium of Instruction for the courses offered in the College is English.
Evaluation
(a) The students admitted to various UG courses are evaluated on the basis of external assessment made by End Semester Examinations.
Passing Minimum
UG courses
UG students shall be declared to have passed in each paper, wherever prescribed, if he/she secures not less than 40 marks out of 100 in the End Semester External Examination.
PG Diploma courses
A candidate shall be declared to have passed in each paper, wherever prescribed, if he/she secures not less than 40 per cent of the marks prescribed for the End Semester External Examination and secures a total of 50 marks out of 100 both in the End Semester External Examination and Internal Marks put together. There is no minimum mark criterion for internal assessment.
Diploma and Certificate courses
A candidate shall be declared to have passed in each paper, wherever prescribed, if he/she secures not less than 30 per cent of the marks prescribed for the End Semester External Examination and secures a total of 40 marks out of 100 both in the End Semester External Examination and Internal marks put together. There is no minimum mark criterion for internal assessment.
Classification of Successful Candidates
Successful candidates securing 75 per cent of marks and above will be deemed to have passed in First Class with distinction, candidates securing above 60 per cent but below 75 per cent in First class, candidates securing above 50 per cent but below 60 per cent in Second Class. Candidate securing above 40 per cent but below 50 per cent will be deemed to have passed in third class.
Dress Code

  • The dress code is applicable to all UG Degree Courses. The boys wear dark gray pant and light gray shirt. The girls wear Salwar Kameez with upper light gray and shawl and pant with dark gray colour. Any other material which is not part of formal dress code/look is not to be used by the students.
  • The dress code is also applicable to Diploma courses in Multipurpose Health Worker [Female] (Chudidhar in white colour).