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RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR BS PROGRAMS

Class Attendance: 

  1. A student must have attended at least 75% of the classes held in a course in order to be allowed to sit in the final examination.
  2. In case the student remains absent from the class for seven consecutive days without leave his/her name will be removed the roll.
  3. Students having less than 75% class attendance in a particular course will be required to repeat the course in the same semester next year. Names of such students will be reported by the college to the University of the Punjab and these students shall not be allowed to appear in the final examination.

 

Promotion Rules: 

  1. A student must obtain a minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of

2.00 at the end of each semester for promotion to next semester. 

  1. In case a student is able to obtain GPA of 1.70 or more but less than 2.00 except first semester where GPA of 1.50 or more but less than 2.00, he/she will be promoted to the next Semester on probation (1st probation). If the student does not achieve the desired CGPA of 2.00 but obtain CGPA greater than or equal to 1.70, will go to 2nd (last) probation. The candidate, who fails to secure 1.50 GPA in the first semester or 1.70 CGPA in a subsequent semester, will stand automatically dropped from the rolls of the college.
  2. A student will have the right to avail probation twice in the following semesters. A student has to obtain CGPA 2.00 in the first semester of each program for award of degree. 
  3. In third, fifth, seventh, and ninth (where applicable) semesters a student will be required to repeat those courses of the first, third, fifth, and seventh semesters, respectively, in which he/she had failed. 
  4. In the forth, sixth, eighth and tenth (where applicable) semester, a student will be required to repeat those courses of the second, fourth, sixth, and eighth semesters, respectively, in which he/she had failed.
  5. If a student gets D grade, he/she can repeat the course when offered to improve his/her grade.
  6. A student, who completes all courses and has not been required to repeat any course(s), obtains CGPA less than 2.00 but no less than 1.90 at the end of 8th semester may be allowed to repeat 12 credit in which he/she had obtained the lowest grades, in order to improve the CGPA so as to obtain the minimum of 2.00 CGPA failing which he/she shall not be allowed degree and removed from the rolls of the college.
  7. In case a student repeats the course(s) for the improvement of grade(s) which he/she has already taken, the better of the two grades of the course(s) will be counted for CGPA calculations.

 

Probation: 

The probation of a student on probation will be allowed twice in all degree programs. If a student in the first semester obtains CGPA less than 2.00 and greater than or equal to 1.5, she will be considered on probation. In the subsequent semesters (i.e, second semester onwards), the student will be on probation if he/she secured CGPA less than 2.00, and greater than or equal to 1.70. In case student does not achieved the minimum desired CGPA 2.00 in any semester after availing two probations, she will be dropped from the rolls of the College and cannot be readmitted by the same College under any circumstances.

Course Workload and Change of Course: 

 

  1. A student who had earned an ‘F’ grade in a course in first semester may be allowed to take one additional course during the third semester.
  2. A student who had earned an F grade in a course in the 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th or 6th semester may be allowed to take one additional course during the 4th, 5th, 6th, 7th or 8th semester, respectively.
  3. The student who had earned an ‘F’ grade in course 7th and 8th semester will enroll again in 7th and 8th semester of next class (Le.. the following year).
  4. The student who had earned an ‘F’ grade in any course or have earned ‘D’ grade in any course and want to improve grade will enroll the course in the same semester in the following year.
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Unfair Means Cases: 

The teacher-in-charge will report unfair means cases in quizzes and mid semester examinations to the Principal who will forward these cases to College Examination Committee within one week for necessary action as under: 

Any candidate detected in giving or receiving, or found guilty of copying from any paper, book or note, or allowing any other candidate to copy his answer book, or using, or attempting to use these or any other unfair means, will be dropped from the program not exceeding two semester. 

UMCs in the final examination will be handled by the office of the Controller of the Examinations, University of the Punjab, as per university rules. 

 

Re-Take Examination: 

If a student fails in a course, he/she will be provided two chances to pass a course by registering for the course again in the same semester of the subsequent years. If a student fails to pass the course after availing these two chances, he/she will be dropped from the rolls of the college. 

 

Freezing of a Semester: 

In case of valid reason a student may freeze his/her studies  maximum for one year (two semester) subject to the permission of

Chairperson/Principal of the concerned Department/College. The student will rejoin the same semester in the following year. However, freezing in 1st semester not allowed. 

 

Cancellation of Admission: 

If a student fails to attend any lecture during the first four weeks of the commencement of the semester as per announced schedule, his/her admission stand cancelled automatically without any notice.