1. UNIVERSITY OF CALICUT UG PROGRAMMES UNDER CHOICE BASEDCREDIT SEMESTER SYSTEM(CCSS)

2. UG Education Restructuring
Kerala State Higher Education Council recommended to restructure the Under Graduate education by Introducing Semesterisation and Grading.
Calicut University implimented CCSS From academic year onwards

3. The New Names
‘Programme’ - Entire course of study (traditionally referred to as course).
‘Course’ - subject (traditionally referred to as paper)
‘Credit’ (Cr) - weekly unit of work

4. PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
• Duration: 6 semesters distributed in a period of 3 years
The odd semesters: June to October
Even semesters: November to March
Each semester: Min 90 working days of 18 weeks, 5 Days and 5 Hours

5. Courses Total 31 courses 10 Common Courses (Code A)
16 Core Courses (Code B)
04 Complimentary Courses (Code C)
01 Open Courses (Code D)

6. Credits To pass: Achieve a min of 120 credits Common: 38 credits
Core and Complimentary: 78 credits
Open: 4 credits

7. Attendance Min 75% during a semester for each course
Condonation: max 10 days in a semester and max 2 times during the programme

8. Extra credits NCC weightage certificate- 1
NSS weightage certificate -1
University level participation in sports -1
Participation in inter zone arts festival -1
Participation in inter University meets -1

9. Extension activities
Compulsory social service (CSS) for a period of 30 days

10. EVALUATION AND GRADING
Two parts
Internal Evaluation (25%)
External Evaluation (75%)

11. Internal Evaluation Based on Direct Grading System
Five components for internal assessment
Assignment 1 wieghtage
Seminar 1 weightage
Test Paper 2 weightage
Attendance 1 weightage
There shall not be any chance for improvement for internal grade

12. External Evaluation Immediately after Each Semester
Based on Direct Grading System
Four types of questions
1. Multiple Choice/Objective Type questions
2. Short Answer type questions
3. Short Essays/Problems
4. Long Essays

13. External Evaluation Questions are given different weights.
Weights are similar to marks in the traditional marks system.
Weights of these 4 types of questions ¼, 1, 2, 4 respectively

14. DIRECT GRADING SYSTEM Letter Grade Grade Point Grade Point Range A 4
3.5-4 B 3 C 2 D 1 E
0-0.49

15. Passing a course
• Aggregate C grade in each course for a pass and also for awarding a degree

21. CALCULATION OF CGPA
Just like we calculated SGPA, the CGPA is calcualted at end of the programme

23. AWARD OF DEGREE
The successful completion of all the courses (common, core, complementary and open courses) prescribed for the degree programme with C grade shall be the minimum requirement for the award of the degree.

24. Thank you
Edited by: Abbas Vattoli