Regulation for Examination of 2-Year B.Ed.

Course (Semester System)

P.G. Dept. of Education (Faculty of Education S.K.M.U., Dumka

1. General
1.1 These regulations shall be called the “Regulation for Examination of B.Ed. Course
(Semester System)” of the Sido-Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka.
1.2 These regulations shall come from the academic session 2015-2016/17

2. Programme of Study
2.1 The University shall offer “Bachelor of Education” degree under the Faculty of
Education, S.K.M. University, Dumka in the different Govt., Self-Finance, Private &
Minority Teacher Education Colleges of the University and Department of Education of
a composite Institution/College (offering Graduate or Post Graduate Programmes of
Study in the field of liberal arts of humanities or social sciences or sciences or
commerce or other degree holder of S.K.M. University duly recognized by NCTE. The
“Bachelor of Education” degree shall be abbreviated as B.Ed.
2.2 The duration of B.Ed. Course (Semester System) shall be of two academic
sessions/years (Four Semester).
2.3 The Examination for Bachelor of Education (B.Ed.) Degree shall consist of four
Semester of six months each.
2.4 Each academic session shall consist of two semesters – I & III: July/August to
December and II & IV: from January/February to June. Each semester shall be of
18 to 20 weeks of actual study.
2.5 The B.Ed. Course shall consist of 20 papers of differential weightages (2, 4 or 6
credits equaling to 56 credits in all), spread over four semester (14 credits each
semester) with Five Papers each semester I & II, Four Papers in Semester III, and
six Papers in Semester IV, carrying 50 marks each 2 credit paper, 100 marks each
4 credit paper, 150 marks each 6 credit paper. The entire curriculum shall be 1350
marks taken together.
2.6 The terms ‘Credit’ refers to weightage given to a course in relation to the
instructional hours assigned to it. Each credit in a taught course is equated to one
hour of teaching or two hours of seminars/group work/laboratory work/field
work/workshop per week for 18 to 20 weeks. Thus, a 2-credit course shall be
entail 2 hours of regular teaching per week or as much as 4 hours of other
programme activities and a 4-credits course shall entail 4 hours of regular teaching
per week or as much as 8 hours of other programme activities.
2.7 The distribution of papers like theory, practicum, field work, project, internship,
etc. with number of credits and marks allocated is specified in the course structure
of the B.Ed. programme.
3. Evaluation of Performance under Semester System
3.1 The performance of a student in each paper will be assessed on the basis of a
Continuous Internal Assessment (CIA) of 30 marks and the End Semester
Examination (ESE) consisting of 80 marks in a 4 credit paper, CIA 15 marks
and ESE consisting of 40 in a 2 credit paper, and, CIA 50 marks and ESE
consisting of 100 marks in a 6 credit paper.
3.2 The components of CIA in a 4 credit paper shall be:
a) Two Mid-Semester Written Tests of one-hour duration - 10 marks
b) Seminar Presentation/Quiz/Term Paper - 05 marks
c) Individual/Group Assignments/Projects Regularity & Behaviour/
Student portfolio - 05 marks
Total 20
marks
3.3 The Components of CIA in a 2 credit paper shall be:
a) One Mid-Semester Written Test of one-hour duration
Seminar Presentation/Quiz/Term Paper - 05 marks
b) Individual/Group Assignments/Projects Regularity & Behaviour/
Student Portfolio - 05 marks
Total 10
marks
3.4 The concerned teacher of the course/paper shall be responsible for
conducting the one/two mid-semester tests (as the case may be) and other
components of the CIA and shall also be responsible to evaluate and mark
them. He/ She shall show the answer scripts of the mid-semester tests to
students of his class. In addition to CIA, the ESE, which will be written
examination of 3-hours duration in case of 4 credit course, and 2- hours
duration in case of 2 credit course, would also form an integral component
of evaluation.
3.5 The evaluation of Internship shall also be based on CIA conducted by the
concerned supervisor and an End Semester Evaluation of Internship Report,
the viva-voce examination and Assessment of Practice Teaching.
3.6 The components of CIA in Internship work (BED- 303: School Internship
Report) shall be as under:
a) Involvement & performance in the school activities - 25 marks
b) Quality of Internship Report - 15 marks
c) Regularity & Behaviour - 10 marks
3.7 The components of CIA in the Internship work (BED – 304: Assessment of
Practice Teaching) shall be as under:
 a) Performance in Criticism Lesson - 10 marks
b) Quality of Records of Lesson Plan - 10 marks
c) Records of the Observation of Peer Interns Lesson - 05 marks
d) Regularity & Behaviour - 05 marks
3.8 The components of end semester examination of Internship Paper (BED –
303: School Internship Report) shall be as under:
a) Quality of Internship Report - 50 marks
b) Viva-Voce Examination on Internship Report - 50 marks
3.9 The End Semester Examination of Internship Paper (BED-304: Assessment
of Practice Teaching) shall be of 80 marks which will be awarded on the
basis of observation and assessment of performance in the Teaching of a
Final Lesson (in pedagogy of first school subject) in a classroom of
secondary school for period of at least 45 minutes.
3.10 External evaluation of the both the components of Internship Report (BED
– 303: School Internship Report as well as BED- 304: Assessment of
Practice Teaching) of each student shall be done jointly by two external
examiners to be appointed by the Dean of the faculty of Education from
out of a panel approved by the University.
3.11 Viva-Voce of the candidate for evaluating his/her Internship work (BED –
303: School Internship Report), shall be done jointly by the external
examiners who have evaluated the Internship Report.
3.12 The Principal/Director of the Institution shall assign a Supervisor to each
student for Internship work which shall be carried out in a upper primary,
secondary or senior secondary government/recognized private school for a
minimum duration of 16 weeks. The candidate shall carry out Internship
work including Practice Teaching and participation in all the school
activities, including planning, teaching and assessment, interacting with
school teachers, community members and children under the direct
guidance of his/her supervisor and shall submit a report manifesting his/her
understanding of the school in totality, its philosophy and aims,
organization and management; the life of a teacher; needs of the physical,
mental, emotional development of children; aspects of curriculum and its
transaction; quality, transaction and assessment of teaching – learning, in
two typed copies, within the time specified by the College/Department,
which shall in no case be later than the first date announced for start of the
Third Semester Examination, along with a certificate duly signed by the
supervisor that the work has been carried out under his/her personal
supervision and that it is not a copy of an earlier work of the same nature.
 The candidate shall also submit separately the “Records of the Lessons
taught at school (Lesson Plan)” and the ‘Record of the Observation of Peer
Interns’ Lesson.
4. Examinations
4.1 The End-Semester Examination will be conducted by the university. The
End – Semester Examination (ESE) shall be named as follows:
Year – 1 Year – 2
a) B.Ed. Part (I) b) B.Ed. Part (II)
Ist End-Semester Examination & IIIrd End-Semester Examination &
IInd End-Semester Examination IVth End-Semester Examination

4.2 Syllabus for each 4 credit paper shall be divided into 5 units. Based n this,
the question paper pattern in the End-Semester Examination shall be as
follows:
Part – A
Ten Multiple Choice Question (No Choice) 10 X 2 = 20 marks
(Two Question from each Unit)
Part – B
Five Short Answer Question (Four to be answered) 4 X 5 = 20 marks
(One Question from each Unit)
Part – C
Six Long Answer Question (Four to be answered) 4 X 10 = 40 marks
(One Question from each Unit)
4.3 Syllabus for each 2 credit paper shall be divided into 3 units. Based on this,
the question paper pattern in the End-Semester Examination shall be as
follows:
Part – A
Five Multiple Choice Question (No Choice) 5 X 2 = 10 marks
(Not more than two Question from each Unit)
Part – B
Three Short Answer Question (Two to be answered) 4 X 5 = 20 marks
(One Question from each Unit)
Part – C
Three Long Answer Question (Two to be answered) 4 X 10 = 40 marks
(One Question from each Unit)
4.4 The Examination of Ist and IIIrd semester, shall be generally held in the
month of November – December and that of IInd & IVth semester, shall be
held in the month of May – June.
4.5 Paper setting: for ESE, external examiners of relevant subject shall be
appointed by the University as per the provisions of the Examination
Board.
5. Passing of Examinations and Promotion Rules
5.1 The admitted students can appear in the University examination only when
they are registered with the Sido-Kanhu Murmu University, Dumka.
5.2 The Candidate who have been admitted to the First Semester of a 2 – year
B.Ed. Programme in a session can be placed in the following categories on
the basis of their attendance in the Semester.
i. Those who have been appeared at the CIA and attended the required
minimum percentage (80%) of attendance of lectures/practical classes and
90% of Field Attachment/Internship separately as per the provision content
under the section 2.2(c) of “NCTE Recognition Norms and Standards of
Bachelor of Education Programme leading to Bachelor of Education
(B.Ed.) Degree – 2014” shall be permitted to appear in the end semester
examination.
ii. Those who have not attended the required minimum percentage of
attendance (80%) in the Theory and Practical and 90% of Field
Attachment/Internship separately shall no case be permitted to appear in
the End Semester Examination. However, Director/Principal/Head of the
Department/Institution may condone 10% and Vice-Chancellor 20 percent
attendance on the basis of medical certificate after having satisfaction on
the medical report, submitted by the student.
5.3 A Candidate can appear at the examination, provided that:
i. The application to appear at the examination is submitted on the prescribed
form on or before the date fixed by the Controller of Examinations/
University.
ii. The candidate’s application form has been duly recommended and certified
by the Principal/Head of the College/Institution.
iii. The Examination fee has been deposited in a manner prescribed by the
Controller of Examinations/University.
iv. An admit card stating candidate’s name and roll number is issued by the
Controller of Examinations, S.K.M. University, Dumka to the candidate
and is presented by the candidate at the portals of the Examination Hall / in
the examination Hall.
5.4 After appearing at the Semester Examination, they can be placed in the
following categories in the context of declaration of the results of the
Semester Examination.
 i. To be declared passed in the End Semester Examination, a candidate must
have secured at – least 40% marks in each paper separately both in theory
as well as in continuous internal assessment and a minimum of 45% in
total.
ii. However if a candidate passes in at – least three out of five papers in
his/her First and Second End Semester Examination and at – least two out
of four in his/her Third End Semester Examination, he/she shall be
promoted to next higher semester.
iii. Candidates shall have to clear their backlog paper in the next End Semester
Examination of that semester whenever it is available. There shall be no
supplementary examination in any of the semester courses (I, II, III and
IV)
iv. Even if a student is promoted to Fourth Semester, his/her Final result will
only be declared when he/she has cleared all their backlog papers.
6. Improvement of Result:
If candidate passes in the End Semester Examination, he/she may apply for
the improvement of his/her ESE result in maximum of two papers of the
semester. He/she can avail this facility only once during the duration of whole
course. Better of the two results will be treated as final result of candidates in
those papers. However the name of such candidates with improvement result
will not be included in the merit list.
7. Declaration of Result:
7.1 In the 4th Semester a candidate need to have cleared all the twenty (20)
papers for the award of the degree.
7.2 The students passed or promoted to the next Semester shall be entitled to
get admitted in the next higher Semester to which he/she has been declared
passed/promoted.
7.3 A student shall be declared to have failed the programme when he/she fails
to qualify for promotion to the next semester after two successive attempts.
7.4 Answer books or sheets will be coded before being passed on the examiner
and decoded before tabulation work.
7.5 There shall be no provision of re-evaluation, only scrutiny (re-totaling) of
marks can be permitted.