The academic council of Shivaji University, Kolhapur, has approved the combined scoring system for post-graduate students of arts, commerce and science streams through distance learning mode.
The new system has come as big boon to the students. It will help them score the combined minimum pass marks in theory and internal examinations and move on to the next semester in a particular subject. Earlier, the students had to score the minimum pass marks separately in the theory and internal examinations.
The board of studies members discussed the proposal and put it before the academic council members after a thorough revision. But the new move comes with a word of caution for the students. The introduction of the new system does not mean that the university is letting the students go off the hook. They will have to score a minimum 40% to pass the examinations. The new system will be implemented from the summer examination and will help over 10,000 students.
