A student is
awarded a letter grade in each course he/she is registered for, including his/her
overall performance in that course. There are nine letter grades: A, B, C, D,
E, F, S, X and I. The correspondence between grades and points (on a 10-point
scale) / rating is given below:-
A: 10, B: 8, C: 6, D: 4, E: 2, F: 0, S:
Satisfactory, X: Unsatisfactory, I: Incomplete
If a
student does not complete all the requirements for a course for a genuine reason,
the instructor may award grade I (Incomplete). An I grade must be converted
by the instructor to a regular letter grade by the last date for such conversion
specified in the Academic Calendar, failing which it is automatically converted
to an F grade.
A student
getting an E or F grade in a course must either repeat it or substitute it by
another course as suggested by DPGC.
A student
getting a D grade in a course may be allowed to repeat it or substitute it by
another course, provided:
his/her CPI is less than the prescribed minimum and the student is allowed to
continue in the programme as per provision in the Academic Performance Requirement,
and
he/she has completed all the courses as prescribed by the department
In case a course is repeated or substituted, the old grade
will also appear on the transcript although it will not be taken into account
while computing the CPI/SPI.
Seminars
will be graded as satisfactory (S) or unsatisfactory (X) and will carry zero
units for credit.
The grade
S or X will be awarded for D.IIT., M.Tech., Ph.D. project/thesis units as follows:
At the end of the semester, the project/thesis supervisor(s) will assess the
student's progress towards the project/thesis work during the semester and will
award the grade S for each set of 4 units if the work is satisfactory and a X
for every unsatisfactory 4 units. Thus a student registered for 16 units can get
one of the following five combinations
SSSS, SSSX, SXXX, XXXX.
If a
student is on leave for a part of the semester or submits his/her thesis in
the middle of a semester, the SPGC may reduce his/her thesis/project units appropriately.
Computation of the Semester Performance Index (SPI) and
Cumulative Performance Index(CPI):-
The SPI is an indicator of the overall academic performance of a student
in all the courses he/she has registered during a given semester. It is computed
as follows: If the grades awarded to student are G1, G2,
etc in courses with corresponding units U1, U2, etc, the SPI is given by :-
SPI= ( U1G1 + U2G2 + ...... ) / ( U1
+U2 + ....)
In the above computation, courses with S and X grades are ignored.
Similarly, the CPI indicates the cumulative academic performance in all the
courses taken including those taken in the current semester.