RESPECT IN EQUAL DAILY INSTALMENTS

Every teacher likes to be ‘pen’pared and ‘booked’ on Teachers’ Day. This addiction, though, at the College level is a recent phenomenon. When we were college goers, Teachers’ Day was considered ‘schoolish’. However, things do change. This Teachers’ Day brings to my mind the delicate image of the House Sparrow. When we were college goers, we didn’t hear of the House Sparrow Day which is celebrated today on the 20th of March every year. The fact that the bird is slowly going the dodo way has demanded the spread of awareness through such ‘Days’. Is the species of teachers too going the House Sparrow way that it needs conservation through awareness via the celebration of a ‘Day’? No doubt, the teachers have faced challenges at different stages of human history. However, the resilience of the teacher is remarkable. Therefore, there’s no cause for concern. One of the first challenges to the relevance of the teacher was posed in the ‘Dvapara Yuga’ itself when Ekalavya achieved mastery with distinction in his discipline through self study. But Drona cleverly kept the teacher’s flag flying by getting Ekalavya’s thumb chopped off by taking recourse to the ‘guru dakshina’ stratagem and rendering him incapable of practicing his art to perfection. Since then, the relevance of the teacher has rarely been challenged. However, in recent times, another bigger challenge has come to the breed of teachers. We call the monster ‘Google.’ The teacher’s relevance is once again questioned as the student can get all his questions answered and doubts clarified by summoning Mr. Google. A mobile phone with a Rs 99/- per month GPRS pack can give the teacher a run for the money. Again, it’s the thumb that’s the villain of the piece. One just needs to press the thumb on the mobile QWERTY key board to summon up Mephistopheles Google with all his answers. Perhaps, this is the reason why teachers see red when students use the mobile phone on campus. You can’t, after all, get all those thumbs chopped off. So now, the target is the gadget. Teachers have other weapons too to face the challenge. You can google your way to knowledge, but you can’t google your way to the examination hall. Here you need attendance, and that too 75%! Therefore, teachers are bound to get a captive attendance with the threat of low attendance constantly staring at the students! To make a long story short, even Google can’t outsmart the teacher. The teacher will always remain relevant. So there’s no worry even if a Teachers’ Day or too is sabotaged by occasions like the Tithi of the Saint. However, on a serious note, the teacher’s goal should be to make himself gradually irrelevant. Only when the teacher has made himself irrelevant, can one say that the student has come of age. Continued relevance of the teacher is not a positive comment on the teacher. To come back to the threats, there’s not to panic. We are too smart to be outgoogled. Meanwhile, let’s just bask in the glory of the day. At the same time, let’s hope that the students don’t spend all their respect and love for us on this day. For you need love and respect in equal installments on all 365 days of the year.

Grading System :
(a) Conversion of marks to Grades :
Actual marks secured by a group of candidates are converted into Relative
Percentile (R) before conversion into Relative Letter Grades. The maximum
Actual marks (i,e. Highest mark) (M) secured in a particular Group is converted
into 100% and other actual marks (A) secured by the students of the same groups
are converted to the Relative Percentile.
R= (100 / M)XA where R= Relative Percentile
M= Maximum (Highest) marks in the class
A= Actual marks of a student who passed I.e., if the
actual marks is not less than 30%
(b) Conversion Table for Relative Percentile into Letter Grades and Grade points.
Range of Relative
Percentile
Letter Grades Grade point
90-100
75-89
55-74
40-54
30-39
If A / or F is below 30 %
A
B
C
D
E
F
10
8
6
4
2
0
(C) Conversion of Grades of CGPA & CPI :
Grade point average (GPA) is used as a numerical survey of academic
achievement, First, Grades are assigned to points in a 10 points scale as follows:
A= 10 points, B= 8 points, C= 6 points, D= 4 points, E= 2 points, F=0 points.
Secondly, the hours of credit for each course are multiplied by the Grade point
value to determine the honour points. The honour points are then added for all the courses
/ papers in a Semester. The same of honour points in a given semester is then divided by
the total number of credits.
Example :
Course No. Course/
Paper
Credit Grade Point Honour
Point
Chem-401 12 A 10 120
Chem-401 12 B 8 96
Chem-420 12 C 6 72
Chem-60X 8 D 4 32
Chem-430 Laboratory
work
16 A 10 160
60 480
Grade point average (GPA) = 480 / 60 = 8.0
Cumulative Performance Index (CPI):
The final result of a four Semester Course is expressed as the average Grade
points obtained by the student in the entire course:
CPI = (CPA) Sem-I+ (GPA) Sem-II (GPA) Sem-III+GPA Sem-IV / 4
(d) Conversion Formula: for m Grades to P.C. of marks for Humanities and Social
Science:
For CGPA upto 9.5 : (5XCGPA)+20
For CGPA above 79.5 : (65XCGPA) -550
So, for c lass-I minimum CGPA be 8
For class –II minimum CGPA be 5
For other subjects / disciplines :
For CGPA upto 9.00 : (10 X CGPA)-5
For CGPA above 9.00 (15 X CGPA)-50
In order to qualify for a P.G. degree a student must secure CGPA of minimum 5.0
(equivalent to 45% marks).