REGULATIONS

1. Conditions for admission
   Candidates for admission to the B.Tech. Degree course shall be required to have passed the higher secondary/+2/XII Std. examination conducted by boards/departments recognized/accepted by the University, obtaining not less than 50% marks in Mathematics and not less than 50% marks in Mathematics, Physics and Chemistry put together or the diploma examination in Engineering, Kerala or any examination accepted by the Government of Kerala as equivalent there to with 50% marks in the final qualifying examination, subject to the usual concession allowed for backward and other communities as specified from time to time.
2. Duration of the course
   a) The course for the B.Tech. Degree shall extend over a period of four academic years comprising of 8 semesters. The first and second semester combined and each semester from third semester onwards shall cover the groups of subjects as given in the scheme of studies and examinations.
   b) Each semester shall normally comprise of 16 weeks.
3. Eligibility for the Degree
   Candidates for admission to the Degree of B.Tech. shall be required to have undergone the prescribed course of study in an institution maintained or affiliated to Mahatma Gandhi University for a period of not less than four academic years and to have passed all examinations specified in the scheme. The first academic year of study shall be from the date of commencement of admission till the closure of the academic year. The remaining 6 semester will have to be completed within 3 subsequent academic years.
4. Subjects of Study
   The subjects of study shall be in accordance with the scheme and syllabi given in the Annexure.
5. Electives
   All students shall choose electives in VII and VIII semesters, from a prescribed set of elective subjects offered by the institution, as indicated in the scheme. There should be at least 20% students of the class for an elective subject to be offered. New electives may be introduced according to the needs of emerging fields in technology. The name of the elective and its syllabus should be approved by the university before the course is offered.
6. Eligibility for appearing examination is subject to the following
   a) The student should have successfully completed the course work for the year/semester.
   b) The student should have not less than 75% attendance for the particular year in the case of I & II semesters combined or the particular semester in the case of higher semesters.
   However, he is eligible for condonation of attendance (once in case of I & II semesters combined or twice in the case of higher semesters) subject to the conditions given below in the entire course.
   i) His conduct must be satisfactory.
   ii) The shortage shall not be more than 10% of actual working days.
   iii) Condonation is given only on medical grounds.
   iv) The condonation shall be granted subject to rules and procedures prescribed by the University from time to time.It is open to the Vice Chancellor to grant condonation of shortage of attendance on the recommendation of Principal.
7. Repetition of the course work
   a) A student who is not eligible for condonation of shortage of attendance shall repeat the course in full including the sessional work in the next immediate chance. The sessional marks earned during repetition of course alone will be counted in such case.
   b) A student can repeat the course only once in each semester/year.
   c) A student can also repeat the course work for improving sessional marks subject to the following conditions.
   i) He shall repeat the course work in full (including sessionals) in a particular semester/year once and that too at the earliest available opportunity.
   ii) He shall not combine his course work with regular course work of any other semester.
   iii) A candidate who has satisfactorily completed the VIII semester course will not be allowed to repeat the course work in any semester.
   iv) He shall not be allowed to repeat the course work of any semester if he has already passed that semester examination in full.
   v) A candidate who has been registered for the higher semester examination will not be allowed to repeat the course work, in lower semester.
   vi) The sessional marks obtained during the repeated course only shall be considered for all purposes.
   d) For repeating the course in any of the above cases the character and conduct of the student must be satisfactory as certified by the Head of the Institution.
8. Minimum for a pass
   A candidate shall be declared to have passed in any individual subject of a semester/year examination if he secures not less than 40% marks for the subject in University examination and not less than 50% of the total marks for the subject, i.e., University examination marks and sessional marks in that subject put together. A candidate who passes in all the subjects of a semester examination shall be declared to have passed the examination in full.
9. Improvement of marks
   A candidate shall be allowed to re-appear for any theory examination in order to improve the marks already obtained subject to the following conditions.
   a) The candidate shall be permitted to take the improvement examination only during the chance immediately after the first appearance.
   b) The candidate shall not be allowed to appear for an improvement examination for the subject of the VIII semester.
   c) The improved marks (better of the two) obtained by the candidate for each subject he has appeared for shall be counted for all purposes.
   d) A candidate can apply for improvement in three subjects in combined SI&II provided he/she has passed all the theory subjects.
   e) A candidate can apply improvement in two subjects in combined SI&II if he/she has only one supplementary theory examination.
   f) A candidate can improve one subject in combined SI&II if he/she has only two supplementary theory examinations.
   g) Those candidates who have to write supplementary examination in three or more theory papers in combined SI&II will not be eligible for improvement of any paper.
   h) For higher semesters (SIII to SVII) (i) a candidate can apply for improvement in two subjects if he/she has passed all theory subjects (ii) a candidate can apply for improvement in one subjects if he/she has passed five theory subjects (iii) a candidate shall not be eligible for improvement of any paper if he/she has failed for two or more theory subjects.
   i) No candidate shall be permitted to improve the marks for practical examination.A candidate shall be allowed to withdraw from the whole examination of a semester in accordance with the rules for cancellation of examinations, of the University.
10. Completion of the course
    The degree will be awarded to the candidate only if he successfully completes the course work and has passed all the examinations within a period of 8 years from the time of admission.
11. Classification of Successful candidates
    a) A candidate who qualifies for the Degree passing all the semester examinations within five academic years (10 consecutive semesters) after commencement of his course of study and has secured not less than 75% of the aggregate of the total marks in all the 8 semesters shall be declared to have passes B.Tech. Examination in First Class with Distinction.
    b) A candidate who qualifies for the Degree passing all the semester examinations within five academic years (10 consecutive semesters) after the commencement of the course of study and has secured not less than 60% of the aggregate of the total marks in all the 8 semesters shall be declared to have passes B.Tech. Examination in First Class.
    c) All other successful candidates shall be declared to have passed B.Tech. Degree Examination in Second Class.Successful candidates who complete the examination in four academic years (8 consecutive semesters and chances) after the commencement of the course of study shall be ranked branch-wise on the basis of the aggregate of the total marksforalltheeightsemesters.
12. Question Papers
    Question papers for Mathematics of all semesters and Engineering Graphics of I & II semesters combined shall contain two questions from each module of the relevant syllabus, one of which will have to be answered. All other theory papers will normally have the question papers in the following pattern.
    Part A Short answer questions covering the whole syllabus with maximum 40% marks for this part. All questions are compulsory.Part B Two questions from each module of the syllabus out of which one is to be answered. Maximum marks for this part is 60%.