BENGALURU: The National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) is introducing a new grading system which will be effective from July this year.
The grading system, which was approved by the Executive Committee of NAAC, is being implemented for assessment of higher education institutions across the nation. In an official communication, NAAC director Prof D P Singh said, “To reflect the institutions’ performance levels more distinctively, as recommended and approved by the Executive Committee of NAAC, the grading system has now been changed to a seven-point system in place of descriptors for letter grades, which are ‘Very Good’, ‘Good’, ‘Satisfactory’, ‘Unsatisfactory’.”
Under the existing system, institutions have been getting an A (very good), B (good), C (satisfactory) or D (unsatisfactory) grades depending on the cumulative grade point index (CGPA) they have secured based on seven parameters. For example, colleges with a CGPA between 3.01 to 4 will get Grade A, and so on.
Under the new system, colleges will be graded based on a seven-point scale, namely A, A+, A++, B, B+, B++, C and D.