Delhi University gave the nod to Choice Based Credit System from upcoming session 2015-16. With just two days left for the first cut-off, students are having butterflies in their stomach about the choice of their course and colleges. However, with the new system in the house it is important for students to understand what all will change?
What Is Choice Based Credit System?
Choice Based Credit System is the ‘cafeteria approach’ towards education where students have the choice to pursue the course of their choice, learn additional skills at the pace they want to. This system gives choice to the students to have an interdisciplinary approach where students can choose to additional subjects that will earn them some credit points.
These credit points can be earned through the content of courses. A single subject of Arts/Humanities will carry 6 credit points divided as 5 for theory and 1 for tutorial/practical. For Science, the division of marks is 4 and 2 respectively.
Honours courses will make up to 140 credits while programme courses will make up to 120 points.
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Course Structure
The guidelines laid down by UGC have divided the course structure into three parts:-
Core: This is mandatory for students to pursue to fetch the degree/diploma/certificate for the respective course.
Elective: This contains a pool of subjects complementary to the core subjects from which students can choose to earn extra credit points.
Foundation/Enhancement: This section is further divided into two parts. First, compulsory foundational subjects that add knowledge and second, elective foundation subjects which are values based also being referred as ‘man making’.
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Evaluation
CBCS initiates changes in the marking system. There are few credit points allocated with each subject and students may earn as many as they want. Moreover, CBCS includes moving forward from marking system to the grading system. A 10 point CGPA has been introduced, however, it is yet to be clear if CGPA will be calculated on the basis of absolute marks or the percentile scored.
Why CBCS?
According to UGC, CBCS will make Indian Universities at par with foreign universities and improve the quality of higher education in coming years. The integration of skill and vocational courses will give students the flexibility to pursue subjects of their choice, hence, making the system student-oriented.
Moreover, the standardised system will create the space of inter-university mobilization and provisions for credit transfer from one university to another.
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Semestarisation of courses, restructuring of the syllabus, standardization of examination and switching from numeric marking system to grading are the four major changes UGC has asked universities to implement while rolling out CBCS.
However, Delhi University is yet to prepare draft syllabi for all courses.