ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

COURSE STRUCTURE
AND SYLLABI
OF
MASTER OF COMPUTER APPLICATIONS
EFFECTIVE FROM THE ACADEMIC YEAR 2012-13.

GAYATRI VIDYA PARISHAD

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING
(AUTONOMOUS)
ACCREDITED BY NAAC WITH A GRADE WITH A CGPA OF 3.47/4.00
AFFILIATED TO JNTU KAKINADA
MADHURAWADA, VISAKHAPATNAM 530048
 Vision
To evolve into and sustain as a Centre of
Excellence in Technological Education
and Research with a holistic approach.
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 Mission

To produce high quality engineering graduates

with the requisite theoretical and practical
knowledge and social awareness to be able to
contribute effectively to the progress of the
society through their chosen field of endeavor.

To undertake Research & Development, and

extension activities in the fields of Science and
Engineering in areas of relevance for immediate
application as well as for strengthening or
establishing fundamental knowledge.
 F O R EW O R D

This academic year 2012-13 is starting on a happy note of this

college being able to send its 2nd batch of M.C.A Students under
autonomous status out by April, 2013. When it is contemplated to apply
for autonomous status to GVP college of Engineering, there was a word
of caution by some outsiders about its successful implementation. But for
the determination of the management, excellent guidance from experts
on the Academic Council and Boards of Studies, support from faculty
and staff as well as acceptance from students and parents, this college
would not have reaped the fruits of success so far and has been what it is
to-day in the world of higher technical education in the state. In the past
three years of experience, this college gained confidence and has become
more and more self reliance in upholding the quality of technical
education while presenting employable graduates to the industry
without squandering the freedom given and confidence bestowed on it by
authorities responsible for.

The system has stabilized and functioning to the satisfaction of

industry and academics alike. Thanks to the help extended by the
members of the new boards of studies and the efforts of the faculty in
designing the syllabi.

Principal
ACADEMIC REGULATIONS
 ACADEMIC REGULATIONS

(Effective for the students admitted into first year from the academic
year 2012-2013 onwards)

The MCA Degree of the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological

University, Kakinada shall be recommended to be conferred on
students who are admitted to the program and fulfill all the
requirements for the award of the Degree.

1.0 ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSIONS :

Admission to the above program shall be made subject to the
eligibility, qualifications and specialization prescribed by the
AICTE from time to time.
Admissions shall be made on the basis of merit rank obtained by
the qualifying candidate at ICET examination or an Entrance Test
conducted by the University subject to reservations prescribed by
the university from time to time.

2.0 AWARD OF M.C.A. DEGREE:

2.1 A student shall be declared eligible for the award of the MCA
degree, if he pursues a course of study and completes it
successfully for not less than three academic years and not
more then six academic years.
2.2 A student, who fails to fulfill all the academic requirements
for the award of the degree within six academic years from
the year of his admission, shall forfeit his seat.
2.3 The minimum instruction for each semester shall be 20
weeks with 5 days a week. A working day shall have 7
periods each of 50 minutes.
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3.0 CREDIT STRUCTURE:
Course work (I-V semesters): (5T+2P)/sem.
20+4 = 24 credits/sem
Seminar(VI semester) 2 credits.
Project work(VI semester) 28 credits.
Total 150 credits.

4.0 ATTENDANCE:
4.1 The attendance shall be considered subject wise.
4.2 A candidate shall be deemed to have eligibility to write end
semester examinations in a subject if he has put in at least 75%
of attendance in that subject.
4.3 Shortage of attendance up to 10% in any subject (i.e. 65% and
above and below 75%) may be condoned by a Committee on
genuine and valid reasons on representation by the candidate
with supporting evidence.
4.4 A student who gets less than 65% attendance in a maximum of
two courses in any semester shall not be permitted to take the
end semester examination in which he/she falls short. His/her
registration for those courses will be treated as cancelled. The
student should re-register and repeat those courses as and
when offered next.
4.5 If a student gets less than 65% attendance in more than two
courses in any semester he/she shall be detained and has to
repeat the entire semester.
4.6 Shortage of attendance below 65% shall in no case be
condoned.
4.7 A stipulated fee shall be payable towards condonation of
shortage of attendance.

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 4.8 Attendance will be indicated in the marks memo by a letter
code as follows:
Grading of Attendance:
90% and above A (Very Good)
75% to 89% B (Good)
65% to 74% C (Condoned)
Below 65% D (Detained)

5.0 EVALUATION AND ACADEMIC REQUIREMENTS:

The performance of the student in each semester shall be evaluated
subject-wise, with a maximum of 100 marks for each theory and
100 marks for each practical, on the basis of Internal Evaluation
and End Semester Examination.
5.1 For the theory subjects 60 marks shall be awarded based on
the performance in the External Examination, 40 marks shall
be awarded based on the Internal Evaluation.
One part of the internal evaluation shall be made based on the
average of the marks secured in the two Mid Term-
Examinations of 30 each conducted one in the middle of the
Semester and the other immediately after the completion of
instruction. Each mid term examination shall be conducted for
duration of 90 minutes with 3 questions to be answered out of
5 questions. The remaining 10 marks are awarded through an
average of continuous evaluation of assignments/seminars/any
other method, as notified by the teacher at the beginning of the
semester.
5.2 For Practical subjects, 50 marks shall be awarded based on the
performance in the End Semester Examinations, 50 marks
shall be awarded based on the day-to-day performance as
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 Internal marks. A candidate has to secure a minimum of 50%
in the external examination and has to secure a minimum of
50% on the aggregate to be declared successful.
5.3 Laboratory examination for MCA course must be conducted
with two Examiners, one of them being Laboratory Class
Teacher and second examiner shall be other than Class
Teacher.
5.4 A student shall be promoted from II to III year only if he
aquires 68 out of 96 credits at the end of II year. (from I, II, III
semesters regular and supplementary examinations and IV
semester regular examinations).
5.5 There shall be a seminar presentation in VI Semester. For
Seminar there will be only internal evaluation of 50 marks. A
student has to secure a minimum of 50% to be declared
successful. The assessment will be made by a Board
consisting of Head of the Department and two other internal
staff members of the department
5.6 A student shall be allowed to submit the project report only
after fulfilling the attendance requirements of all the semesters.
The viva-voce examination shall be conducted at the end of
the course work and after the completion of the End Semester
examination of the final semester.
5.7 A candidate shall be given one chance to re-register for each
subject provided the internal marks secured by a candidate are
less than 50% and he has failed in the end examination. The
re-registration is permitted only after completion of his regular
course and before submitting his final project report and as and
when the subjects (or any other equivalent subjects as decided
by the College) are offered. In the event of re-registering, the
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 internal marks and end examination marks obtained in the
previous attempt are nullified. At a given time a candidate is
permitted to re-register for a maximum of three subjects.

6.0 EVALUATION OF PROJECT WORK:

6.1 A Departmental Project Review Committee (DPRC) shall be
constituted with the Head of the Department as the chairman
and two senior faculty as members to oversee the proceedings
of the project work from allotment to submission.

6.2 A Project Review Committee (PRC) of the college is to be

constituted with a Senior Professor not below the rank of a
HOD as chairperson, Heads of the Departments, which are
offering PG courses and two other senior faculty members of
the department offering MCA.

6.3 Registration of Project work: A student is permitted to register

for the project work after satisfying the attendance requirement
of all the courses (theory and practical courses) up to V
Semester. A candidate has to submit, in consultation with his
project supervisor, the title, objective and plan of action of his
project work to the DPRC for its approval. Only after
obtaining the approval of DPRC the student can initiate the
Project work.

6.4 Duration of the project is for one semester.

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6.5 If a candidate wishes to change mid course his supervisor or
topic of the project he can do so with approval of the
Departmental Project Review Committee (DPRC). However
the departmental review committee shall examine whether the
change of topic/supervisor leads to a major change of his
initial plans of the project proposal. If so, his date of
registration for the project work shall start from the date of
change of supervisor or topic as the case may be or whichever
is earlier.
6.6 Three copies of the project report, certified by the supervisor
shall be submitted to the College.
6.7 The Project report shall be adjudicated by one external
examiner selected by the Principal, out of 5-member panel
submitted by the HOD who are eminent in that field of study.
6.8 The viva-voce examination of the project shall be conducted
by a board consisting of the External examiner, The Head of
the Department and Supervisor. The Board shall jointly report
students work as:
A Excellent
B Good
C Satisfactory
Head of the Department shall coordinate and make
arrangements for the conduct of viva-voce examination.

6.9 If the work is not satisfactory, the student will revise and
resubmit the Project report after three months. If he fails to get
a satisfactory report again, the project shall be summarily
rejected.

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7.0 REMEDIAL PROGRAM FOR DEFAULTERS:
A Remedial programme during 8.40 - 10.20 a.m. / 3.20 - 5.00 p.m.
in subsequent semesters is offered for those students who had taken
the course earlier but failed to fulfill the attendance requirements
and detained due to shortage of attendance in not more than two
subjects. However, this facility shall not be extended to those
candidates who are detained for want of attendance as per
regulations 4.5.
7.1 Remedial programme shall be announced at the beginning of every
semester. The announcement of subjects offered for the summer
programme is at the discretion of the Principal. A student shall have
to register within the time stipulated in the announcement by paying
the prescribed fee.
7.2 The number of total contact hours and method of evaluation for any
remedial program shall be the same as those for a regular semester.
7.3 It is desirable for a candidate to put up 100% attendance in all the
subjects registered for the remedial programme. However 25%
concession in attendance may be permitted at the discretion of the
principal based on the merits of the individual case under extraneous
conditions with proper evidence. No further condonation of
attendance on par with the regular semester shall be permitted.
7.4 If a candidate fail to satisfy the attendance requirement in a course
registered during remedial programme, then he has to repeat the
course in the subsequent remedial programme when offered next.
7.5 The method of internal evaluation is same as for the regular M.C.A
programme. I mid examination shall be completed by the end of IV
weeks and II mid to be completed by the end of VIII weeks of the
programme.
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7.6 The earlier internal marks secured in the regular semester for the
subjects registered in the remedial programme are nullified and
internal marks from the latest remedial programme shall be final.
7.7 Attendance and completion of subjects during the remedial
programme shall be suitably reflected in the consolidated marks
memo.
7.8 No student can register for more than two courses during a
remedial programme.
7.9 Withdrawal from a remedial program after registration will not
entitle for any refund of fees.
7.10 The credits for the courses registered during the remedial
programme can be earned from the end semester examinations
following the corresponding regular semester.
8.0 AWARD OF DEGREE AND CLASS:
After a student has satisfied the requirements prescribed for the
completion of the program and is eligible for the award of MCA
Degree he shall be placed in one of the following three classes:

% of marks to be secured Class Awarded

First Class with
70% and above
Distinction
60% and above but less than
First Class
70%
50% and above but less
Second Class
than 60%
The marks in internal evaluation and end examination shall be
shown separately in the marks memorandum.
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 The grade of the dissertation shall also be mentioned in the marks
memorandum.

9.0 WITHHOLDING OF RESULTS:

If the student has not paid any dues to the college or if any case of
indiscipline is pending against him, the result of the student will be
withheld and he will not be allowed into the next semester. The
recommendation to the issue of degree is liable to be withheld in
such cases.

10.0 TRANSITORY REGULATIONS:

Students who have discontinued or have been detained for want of
attendance or who have failed after having undergone the course
are eligible for admission to the same or equivalent subjects as and
when the subjects are offered, subject to 5.4 and 2.0.

11.0 GENERAL:
The academic regulations should be read as a whole for
purpose of any interpretation.
11.1 In case of any doubt or ambiguity in the interpretation of
the above rules, the decision of the Chairman Academic
Council is final.
11.2 The College may change or amend the academic regulations
and syllabus at any time and the changes and amendments
made shall be applicable to all the students with effect
from the date notified by the college.
11.3 Wherever the word he, him or his occurs, it will also include
she, her and her’s.
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