CREDIT & GRADING system in Indian University

1. Definition of Credit:
 
(a) The theory paper would have one credit for each hour of instruction per week
in a semester. The activities include lectures, tutorials and others for internal evaluation 
(Seminar, group discussion,  laboratory/demonstration session mini project etc.)

A theory paper (which is equivalent to 100 marks of course load) should be of 6

(six) credit points which would consist of 4 hrs, of lectures and 2 hrs of tutorial & other activities. 

A theory paper of 50 marks would have 3 (three) credit points: 2 hrs of lectures
+ 1 hrs tutorial (& others)

For science subjects with practical one hour tutorial may be outside the office
hours for home work, literature survey/internet browsing etc.

Grading Syatem, Conversion formula from Marks to Grade

1. Relative Grading System

(a)    Conversion of marks to grades :

 

Actual marks secured by a group of candidates in a particular paper are converted into Relative Percentage I before conversion into Relative Letter Grades. The maximum Actual marks (i.e. Highest mark) (M) secured in a particular paper is converted into 100% and other actual marks (A) secured by the student of the same group are converted to the Relative Percentage.

 

R = (100/M) X A where,         R = Relative Percentage

                                             M = Maximum (Highest) marks in the class.

                                             A = Actual marks of a student who passed i.e. if the

actual Mark is not less than 40%

(d)               Conversion Table for Relative Percentage into letter Grades and Grade points.

Range of Relative percentage	Letter Grades	Grade point
90 -100 75 -89 60-74 45-59 40 -44 Below 40%	A B C D E F	10 8 6 4 2 0

* F means fail and must be repeated in the coming semesters.

(e)      Grade point average (GPA) is used as a numerical score of academic achievement. First,    Grades are assigned to points in a 10 point scale as follows:

A= 10 points, B=8 points, C= 6 points, D = 4 points, E = 2 points, F = 0 points.

 

Secondly, the hours of credit for each course are multiplied by the grade point value to determine the honour points. The honour points are then added for all the courses/papers in a semester is then divided by the total number of credits.