BENGALURU: State universities and autonomous colleges in Karnataka will have uniform internal assessment (IA) marks for both undergraduate and postgraduate courses from the next academic year.
The State Council of Higher Education took the decision on Monday by accepting the report submitted by a committee headed by Bangalore University Vice-chancellor B Thimme Gowda.
All the state universities will now have to follow new parameter, a 30:70 pattern. Thirty marks will be allotted for IA and 70 marks for the main examinations at the end of a semester.
The new parameters have been introduced after a few state universities said students from autonomous colleges were scoring more marks than students studying in university-affiliated colleges. For instance, if universities affiliated with colleges are conducting IA for 20 marks, an autonomous college may conduct IA for 40 marks.
According to the new parameters, students have to take up IA for 30 marks, of which 20 marks will be allotted for a session test, 5 marks for seminars and 5 marks for case study, assignments, field work, project work and other academic activities.
Thimme Gowda told Express, “Colleges have to submit the IA marks secured by students to their respective affiliated universities 15 days prior to the commencement of the semester-end main examinations.”
Now, universities and autonomous colleges have to give students three hours for the main examination of each subject which will be conducted for 70 marks.
However, the council has not clarified whether the rule will have to be followed by universities like Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences and University of Veterinary Sciences which offer professional courses.