LUCKNOW: Students taking admission to undergraduate courses in UP universities this year will see a common and revised syllabus. The UP government has finalised the structure of common minimum syllabus (CMS) to be implemented in BA, BSc and BCom from the new academic session.
With CMS in place, students will be able to pursue multi-disciplinary studies. For example, an arts student can opt for one subject either from science or commerce stream while a science student can study history or economics. This will be apart from two major subjects from one stream. Besides, students can change their main subject in second or third year.
The fourth subject will be a minor elective (one paper from a particular subject) to be opted by a student from a different faculty. In addition, there will be one vocational and one compulsory co-curricular subject. The vocational skill development course will be for first two years (four semesters) and will be of three credits each.
Under the new credit system, there will be six co-curricular subjects of two credits each which students need to complete in first three years of the course. Students will have to score minimum 40% in these to pass. Though grades of co-curricular subjects will be mentioned on marksheet, but they will not be part of the cumulative grade point average (CGPA).
Each semester will be of 15 weeks. There will be minimum marks to qualify and minimum credits to obtain a degree. Student have to accumulate minimum of 46 credits for one-year certificate course, 92 credits for two-year diploma and 132 credits to earn an undergraduate degree. For four-year UG degree with research, 184 credits will be needed. For PG degree, 232 credits will be needed while 248 credits for PG with research degree will be needed.
