Chennai: For college students affiliated from Anna University stutter with an overall failure rate of 60%, here is the good news.
The new university regulation for 2021 has doubled the internal assessment battery for signaling from 20% to 40%.
The average cumulative point (CGPA) to get the first class was also reduced from 7 CGPA to 6.5 CGPA.
Only 25% of students cleared all subjects in the first semester in January 2019, showed data.
This new regulation also allows students to take a study break up to one year for work or entrepreneurship and have canceled the 2017 government which mandates students to be required to equip arrears in four attempts.
Students can also do up to two online courses in one semester against one course under current rules.
“Previously, the study break was only allowed on a medical basis,” said an official.
New changes are part of the university’s plan to provide uniformity in engineering education offered at affiliated colleges, autonomous colleges, and university departments.
While colleges affiliated following 80%: 20% weight system for final semester exams and internal tests, autonomous colleges and university departments follow 60%: 40% and 50%: 50%: 50% unity system.
In accordance with new regulations, theory courses with laboratory components will have 50% hiber: 50% for the final semester exam and internal assessment.
For laboratory courses, it will be a 60% battery material for internal assessments in the final semester exam.
The number of internal assessments has also been reduced from three to two per semester.
“There will be two internal assessments in each semester and each assessment will be made for 100 marks.
Individual assignments or case studies or seminars or mini projects will carry 40 signs while the written test will be made for 60 signs.
The candidate score for 200 signs will be converted to 40 Sign, “said the rules.
The final semester exam will be carried out for 100 signs and scores will be converted to 60 signs.
Anna University Deputy Chancellor R Velaj said, “The University wants to bring uniformity among all engineering universities.
New regulations will provide more flexibility to students.” In accordance with the previous regulations, students must complete arrears in four attempts, if others may have to repeat the course in the fifth semester.
“The engineering college said students with arrears stopped the course and joined the university that was considered.
So, the regulation was dropped,” V-C said.
The university also allows students to appear for the arrangement examination in the next semester.
According to the existing rules, a student can remove arrears from a strange semester only in the next strange semester when the course is offered again.
“If a student cannot remove in three attempts, the minimum value of 50% in the final semester exam can be declared passed,” said the new regulation.
P Deiva Sundari, Principal, KCG College of Technology, said, “Increased unity for internal assessments including assignments and case studies, mini projects will help students get more active learning.
This has provided more space for results-based education.” ” Pass mark for the final semester exam has been maintained at 45 to ensure that there is no standard dilution in evaluating students, “he added.
The university also introduced new values ​​”C”.
“Students who remove the exam with 50 signs will get a value of C,” said an official from the University.
The university also includes science clubs, literary clubs and art clubs other than NCC and NSS to instill scientific patience among students.
“All colleges are encouraged to start these clubs.
Students are encouraged to participate in one of these clubs as part of extracurricular activities,” the official added.
New regulations also introduce project work in the pre-final semester for engineering students.
However, some professors say the university needs to develop the right mechanism to monitor universities affiliated to see that they provide value in internal assessments based on impartial evaluation.
“If we apply the relative assessment to thousands of students in a subject, it will not make a lot of differences,” B Chidambarajan, the principal, SRM Valliamamai Engineering College, said.