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Features of Choice Based Credit System

The document discusses the key features of the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) implemented by the University Grants Commission in India. The CBCS allows students flexibility in choosing courses from a list of electives, core subjects, and soft skills courses. Students can learn at their own pace and their performance is assessed through a credit system. The CBCS aims to modernize curriculums in line with globalization and provide students options for interdisciplinary learning and skill development through projects. It also introduces a 10-point grading scale to assess student performance uniformly across universities in India.

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Features of Choice Based Credit System

The document discusses the key features of the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) implemented by the University Grants Commission in India. The CBCS allows students flexibility in choosing courses from a list of electives, core subjects, and soft skills courses. Students can learn at their own pace and their performance is assessed through a credit system. The CBCS aims to modernize curriculums in line with globalization and provide students options for interdisciplinary learning and skill development through projects. It also introduces a 10-point grading scale to assess student performance uniformly across universities in India.

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FEATURES OF CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM (CBCS)

Kahkashan Naz
Department of Statistics, University of Kashmir

Choice based credit system (CBCS) is an initiative of the University Grants Commission (UGC) which
provides a learning platform wherein the students have the flexibility to choose their courses from a list of
elective, core and soft skill courses and can learn at their own pace and the entire assessment is graded
based on a credit system. Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) follows a credit system which is attached
to course components offered to students. The basic idea is to look into the needs of the students so as to
keep up-to-date with development of higher education in India and abroad. Choice Based Credit System
(CBCS) aims to redefine the curriculum keeping pace with the liberalization and globalization in education.
It not only opens pathways for learning opportunities but also manifests learning goals and objectives.
The main features of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) can be summarized as follows:

 Under the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), the student has an option to choose inter/multi-
disciplinary courses.
 Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) aims to bridge the gap between the two students of various
courses as it has a provision of offering core subjects with the addition of different soft courses. It
means students have an opportunity to pursue core subjects as well as soft courses of other
department simultaneously.
 The credit system allows a student to study what he prefers in his own sequence as per his interests.
Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) provides students with greater flexibility in the choice of
courses and a greater scope to enhance their skills by taking up projects and assignments and
vocational training.
 Students can choose courses at basic or advanced level. Highly motivated students get the chance
to gain extra credits by opting for additional courses under this system.
 Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) offers a student, the flexibility to transfer the credits to a
different branch of study, in case he/she wishes to change his branch of study.
 Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) is a step towards moving away from numerical marking to
grading which minimizes the stigma of failure among students. The credit based grading system is
considered desirable because it facilitates student mobility across institutions within the country
and across other countries.

The 10-point grading system introduced by UGC is as follows:

Grade Grade Points Percentage


O (Outstanding) 10 90% - 100%
A+ (Excellent) 9 80% - 90%
A (Very Good) 8 70% - 80%
B+ (Good) 7 61% - 70%
B (Above Average) 6 55% - 61%
C (Average) 5 50% - 55%
P (Pass) 4 40% - 50%
F (Fail) 0 < 40%
Ab (Absent) 0 -

Before the implementation of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), multiple methods were followed by
different universities across the country towards examination and evaluation. Considering this diversity,
the implementation of the Choice Based Credit System seems to be a good system in assessing the overall
performance of a student in a universal way of a single grading system. Quality is the major concern of the
present higher education which could be judged and assessed only by the universally acclaimed system of
evaluation and this could be possible through Choice Based Credit System (CBCS).

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