Regulations For Award PHD
Regulations For Award PHD
Regulations For Award PHD
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The Islamia University of Bahawalpur
Part - I
These regulations will replace all the previous regulations for award of the degree of
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
PART – II
PhD 6 year
Total No. of Credit Hours 18+36
Semester Duration 18 Weeks
Number of Regular Semesters 16 (Maximum)
Course Load per Semester 09 Credit Hours
Research and Thesis 18+36=54 Credit Hours
Maximum Duration 6 years
Note: Where the appeal is against a teacher who is a member of the Appeal
Committee, the next senior teacher will be co-opted.
Component Weightage
Sessional 20%
Mid Term Examination 30%
Final Term Examination 50%
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19.1.1 Sessional Evaluation (20%): This component evaluates the student
according to the following parameter.
Component Weightage
Classroom participation/general
05%
behavior/group work
Surprise test (Written) 05%
Assignments. (Written) 05%
Presentation / Seminar 05%
19.1.2 Mid-Term Examination (30%): This examination will be conducted after 7/8
weeks of teaching. There will be different types of questions. The type and
number of questions included in the exam, the division of marks and the
time allocated for each component is given below:
19.1.3 Final-Term Examination (50%): The final-term exam will be based on the
entire syllabi of the semester. At least 20% to 30% weightage will be given to
the syllabi taught before mid-term examination. The type and number of
questions included in the exam, the division of marks and the time allocated for
each component is given below.
Types of No. of
Marks Time Allocated
Questions Question
Objective
20 (1 mark
Type 20 30 min
each)
Questions
Short
7 (2 marks
Answer 14 35 min
each)
Questions
Essay type
2-4 16 55 min
Questions
Total - 50 2 hours
Note: The credit hours are denoted by two digits within brackets with hyphen in
between. The first digit represents the theory part while the second (right side) digit
represents the practical. Thus 3 (3-0) means three credit hours of theory, while 4 (3-1)
means a total of four credit hours of which three are of theory while one credit hour is
for laboratory. The weekly contact hours of a 3(3-0) course will be three hour class
work while the contact hours of a 4(3-1) course will be 3 hours class work and 2-3
hours of lab work per week. Similarly the contact hours for a 3(2-1) course will be 2
hours class work and 2-3 hours lab work per week. A 3(0-3) course will be an all
practical course requiring 6-9 contact hours lab work per week.
23. GRADING
i) Students will be rated according to the 4 letter grade system i.e. A, B, C and D, with
six performance levels of A+, A, B+, B, C and D for PhD Degrees. Grade “D” will be
the failing grade. Equivalence between letter grades, grade points along with
percentages shall be as follows:
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ii) Fractional marks obtained in a course are to be rounded up to the next whole figure
such as 64.10 to 65.00.
iii) CGPA(Cumulative Grade Point Average) /SGPA(Semester Grade Point Average) of
a student will be calculated as per following example:
Marks Grade
Credit Quality Point
Course Obtained Grade Point
Hours (QP)
(%) (GP)
C G CxG
+
I 2 95 A 4.00 08.00
II 3 80 B+ 3.70 11.10
III 3 81 B+ 3.70 11.10
IV 3 70 B 3.00 09.00
V 2 67 C 2.70 05.40
Total 13 44.60
SGPA = Sum of QPs of all the courses in a semester / Sum of Credit Hours of all the
courses in a semester
Thus SGPA = 44.60/13 = 3.43
CGPA = Sum of „n‟ Quality Points / Sum of Credit Hours of „n‟ semesters
25. RETENTION
A student who secures less than 2.70 SGPA in 1st Semester or less than 3.00
CGPA in subsequent Semesters and is to be dropped out may be given one time
chance of being retained in the same semester. The decision will be made by an
advisory committee set up by the Chairperson of the Department concerned. The
committee will consist of the Chairperson, Departmental In-charge Examination and a
senior faculty member nominated by the Chairperson. The option of retention,
however, would be available only once during the whole duration of program.