IIT Gandhinagar to conduct online classes to complete semester; introduces new grading system

IIT Gandhinagar has said that it will be complete the second semester of 2019-20 academic year online and will consider a new grading system for the disrupted academic session. 

The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Gandhinagar has announced that it will complete courses from the second semester of 2019-20 academic year by conducting online classes for students, starting from June 8. 

IIT Gandhinagar in a statement said that it has decided not to award any grade to students for any subjects, including those that were completed before the mid-semester. The institute has introduced two new grading system – ‘P(E)’ and ‘I/F’ for all courses this semester.

The P(E)’ grade stands for Pass Emergency is a pass grade but will have a different connotation than the usual ‘P’ grade and will be so notated on the transcript. The ‘I/F’ grade denotes ‘Incomplete/Fail’ but will not distinguish between incomplete’ and ‘fail, the institute informed.

All students given an ‘I/F’ grade will have one opportunity to complete the course requirement and improve their performance and earn a ‘P(E)’ grade. The deadline to do so will be communicated to students well in advance, the IIT said.

While commenting on the new grading system, Professor Pratik, Dean (Academic Affairs), IIT Gandhinagar, said, “If a student’s performance does not warrant a ‘P(E)’ grade even after this evaluation, the ‘I/F’ grade will be converted to a traditional ‘F’ grade and the credits for this course will naturally not be counted towards the graduation requirements. Thus, an ‘I/F’ grade will not show on a student’s final official record. Neither the ‘P(E)’ nor the ‘F’ grades of Semester II, 2019-20 will be counted in the CPI (Cumulative Performance Index) calculation.”

For MTech and PhD students, the grades for thesis units will continue to be either ‘S’ or ‘U’ as is usually practiced. However, any ‘U’ grade awarded in Semester II, 2019-20 will be dropped from the student’s record. Graduation requirements remain unchanged.

The institute will continue holding the online classes for the second semester. The institute informed that most of the students have adapted well to the online mode of education and hence, it has been decided to go ahead with it.

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