To be honest, it requires more effort by the student to fail a course than to pass a course. The reason being that a majority part of the grading system is mostly qualitative. This means that if a student completes his assignments, takes part in his group projects and actively participates in a lecture will never fail a subject. The term exams constitute very less and even if a student scores a 0 in his term exams, provided he is an active participant in the rest of the grading schemes, will still not receive even a D. The students suffer mostly because of the lack of enough attendance (which leads to a grade drop) and lack of listening and participation in a course.

IIM Sirmaur like most B-schools follow a relative grading. However, each student is required to score an overall 35 marks out of 100 at the end of the course. The grading system varies from faculty to faculty and is relative to the highest marks scored in the course. If a student is below 35 marks, he is considered a failure and awarded an F in the course. A student securing 2 Fs in a year is required to repeat the year. A student securing D, which is basically the lowest grade offered to a student based on the grading scheme, can have utmost 2 Ds in one year. A 3rd D will mean a repeat year. However, Ds are rarely awarded while Fs are common amongst the students.

All the exams are practical application based where almost every exam has a case-study and certain questions are asked on the respective case study. The student is required to read the case study in a period of 2.5 - 3 hours and simultaneously answer the questions asked on the case-study. The questions asked are mostly strategy and analysis based and the exams are usually open book. The students are required to use theoretical knowledge and use it to answer the questions within the stipulated time.

No, VIT Vellore does not offer BTech Admission directly. You must compulsorily appear for the VITEEE to seek VIT Vellore BTech Admissions. To be eligible for VIT Vellore BTech Admission, you must have completed your 10+2 from the Science stream with a minimum of 55% marks. You must have a rank below below one lakh to participate in the VITEEE counselling. You will be allotted a seat as per your rank. The tentative VITEEE Seat Matrix for some of the most popular BTech courses at VIT Vellore is given below.

According to the previous year’s VIT Vellore cutoff category-wise, you can get a seat in VIT Vellore in the CSE branch as you have rank under 27,000. You fall under category 4 based on the previous year’s cutoff.

VIT Vellore intakes students for its B.Tech courses based on the VITEEE entrance ranks followed by counselling. The VITEEE 2024 Result was declared on May 3, 2024

This is the eligibility criteria for 2024 B.Tech admissions at VIT Vellore-

• The Candidate must be an Indian National / NRI/ PIO/ OCI holder.
• The candidate must have passed 10+2.
• They must obtain min. 60% in Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics/Biology (PCM/ PCB) in class 12 or equivalent exam.
• They must be born on or after July 1, 2000.

An eligible candidate must secure the required cutoff rank in VITEEE 2024 exams for admission into B.Tech at VIT Vellore.

Since IIM Sirmaur still operates from a temporary campus, it does not offer as much rigor as other B-Schools. Every term is of three months and typically, in the 1st year, every term has 9-10 mandatory courses. Every course has a unique grading system set by the faculty member. Almost all the courses require a student to prepare a final group project. The guidelines of the group projects are circulated within 2-weeks of the commencement of the course. Every course has a Mid-Term which takes place after 1.5 months and an End-Term at the end of the term. The marking scheme varies from faculty to faculty. During the term-exams, the students are not given any holidays in between the exams and every day, at most two exams take place. The final week of the term is extremely hectic as the deadlines of all the group projects are scheduled in the final week along with presentations of almost all the projects. Hence, it is advisable to complete the projects 1-2 weeks before the deadline. The second year is less exhausting as each term has only 6-7 courses while the 6th term has only 3 courses. Midterms are usually not held in the second year and the volume of classes per week is also very less.

I am a third year B.Tech CSE student at LPU. Thus I am experienced enough to answer your query-

• In the first year, you’ll have an MTE for every subject except the labs.
• From 2nd to 4th year, some subjects from your syllabus won’t have MTEs.
• MTE is an important part of your result. For a subject in MTE, you’ll be marked out of 40. This total will be further converted to 20 at a later stage.
• The MTE syllabus is the first 3 units of every subject. Look at your syllabus file, and make note of the first 3 units and their respective topics.
• Next, prepare topic-wise. If you pay attention in the lectures, half of your work is done. 
• Prepare from books, and not PPTs. PPTs are good for revision, but books will give you a clear understanding of a concept.

These are the things I have been following to prepare for MTEs at LPU. I hope these suggestions will be of help to you.

The mandatory requirement to clear LPUNEST is subject to which course you want to seek admission into. 

• For B.Tech, MBA, Agricultural courses- You need to clear the LPUNEST. 

But if you clear a national level exam that is recognised by LPU for admissions and you fulfill the university’s eligibility requirements, you can seek admission into these courses without clearing LPUNEST.

• For BBA, BA, BCom- For these programs, LPUNEST is not mandatory. 

But if you want to be eligible for scholarship, then you will have to clear the exam for these courses as well. 

This is the complete breakdown of the LPUNEST requirement (whether it is mandatory to clear this exam or not).

LPU follows CGPA i.e., Cumulative Grade Point Average as a grading system to help students evaluate their progress in their respective courses. Students are provided grades based on their marks. To calculate the CGPA, students have to divide their total grade points for all semester subjects by the total number of credit hours attended. 

For a CGPA out of ten, students can divide their percentage by 9.5 and the resulting sum will be the CGPA. Points for various grades are mentioned in the following table.