Examination Policy

Students should fulfill the following conditions for appearing in the examination:

• They should be enrolled for the course
• They should be eligible for the examination
• They should complete submission of assignments and case-studies of the respective paper before the commencement of the respective examination.

1. Reappear/Back Paper cases in End-Term Examination (ETE) of June/December
   In case a student does not appear in or does not clear the examination in any paper in the regular schedule meant for that paper, he can appear in  June/Dec ETE after depositing reappear fee.
   ETE Reappear Fee: Rs 500/- per paper.
   
   
2. Reappear/Back Paper in Supplementary Examination (April/ September)
   In case a student does not appear in or does not clear the examination in any paper in the regular schedule, he can appear in the April/September Supplementary Examination after depositing reappear fee.
   Supplementary Examination Reappear Fee: Rs. 500/- per paper.
   
   
3. Special Examination (within India)
   A student can appear in a special examination within India for any reason with the prior approval from the Institute.
   Fee for Special Examination within India: Rs. 2000/- per paper.
   
   
4. Special Examination (outside India)
   A student can appear in a special examination outside India for any reason with the prior approval from the Institute.
   Fee for Special Examination outside India: Rs 5000/- per paper.
   
   
5. Revaluation Fee (Offline)
   A student can apply for the revaluation of his answer sheet within three months of the declaration of the result.
   Revaluation Fee: Rs. 1000/- per paper.
   
   
6. Re-totalling Fee (Offline)
   A student can apply for the re-totalling of his answer sheet within three months of the declaration of the result.
   Re-totalling Fee: Rs. 500/- per paper.
   
   
7. Re-submission of Assignment
   A student can resubmit his assignment within three months of the declaration of assignment result.
   Fee for Re-submission of Assignment: Rs. 500/-
   
   
8. Viva-voce for Project
   The viva-voce for the Project work shall be conducted after the end of the ETE of June/December.
   Reappear Case for Viva-voce of the Project: If a student fails to appear for the viva-voce on the specified date or he is asked to resubmit his project, he will have to deposit a reappear fee of Rs. 500/-.
   
   Special Viva-voce for the Project: If a student is interested in getting a special viva-voce conducted at his option within India, he has to pay a special viva fee of Rs. 2,500/-. For students outside India, the special viva fee of US $ 150 or equivalent amount in Indian rupees will be charged. US $ 150 will also be charged, if the viva is conducted telephonically/through video conferencing.
   
   
9. Policy relating to Grace Marks
   A total of three marks are allowed as grace marks over two modules spanning a complete academic year. The student may avail the grace marks over a maximum of three subjects or a minimum of one subject.
   
   
10. Issue of Duplicate Identity Card/Duplicate Marksheet/Duplicate Diploma
    A student can apply for the issue of Duplicate Identity Card/Duplicate Mark Sheet / Duplicate Diploma by depositing fee, as indicated below, along with photograph in case of duplicate identity card.
    A copy of FIR and the news item in respect of the loss of Diploma in local news agency are required to be submitted while applying for the duplicate copy of Diploma.
    
    Fee for Duplicate Identity Card : Rs. 200/-
    Fee for Duplicate Marksheet : Rs. 500/-
    Fee for Duplicate Diploma: Rs. 1000/-
    
    Note: Upgradation from One Year to Two year PGDM Programme shall be allowed.

Policy relating to Refund of Fee

The refund of fee is permissible in the following cases:

1. If the admission has been refused by the institute because of non-eligibility, fee will be refunded after deducting an amount of Rs. 2500/- towards administrative charges.
   
   
2. If a student has paid excess amount of fee, full excess amount of fee will be refunded.
   
   
3. If, unfortunately, a student has expired before the examination, fee will be refunded after deducting Rs. 2500/- towards administrative charges.
   
   
4. If a student is admitted provisionally to any of the courses and is found ineligible at a later stage, the admission of such a student shall be cancelled and fee will be refunded after deducting an amount of Rs. 2500/- towards administrative charges.
   
   
5. If a student wants to leave the course on his/her own:

   i)  Within 15 days from the date of closure of admission session, full fee after deducting an amount of Rs. 2500/- towards the cost of books and administrative charges will be refunded.
   
   ii) When more than 15 days but till one month from the date of closure of admission session, 50% of fee will be refunded.
   
   iii) After one month from the date of closure of admission session, no refund of fee will be made i.e. 15th April, 15th October.
   
   iv) Refund will be made within 3 months of the receipt of the application by IMT - CDL Head Quarter.
   
   v) Late fee deposited with IMT - CDL will not be refunded.

Closure of Admission Session

• For Jan admissions        :              15th March (with late fee, from 1st to 15th March)
• For July admissions       :              15th September (with late fee, from 1st to 15th September)

Policy relating to Change of Study Centre

Fee for Change of Study Centre: Rs. 2000/-
Change of Centre would normally be allowed within 15 days of the closure of admissions as follows:
- For Jan admissions        :               Up to 31st March
- For July admissions       :               Up to 30th September
However, under special circumstances, the change of study centre may be allowed after one month of the close of admissions subject to the proof of special circumstances, for example, Change of address, Change of office, Marriage, etc.

Policy relating to Change of Course

1.   Fee for Change of Course: Rs. 2000/-
2.   Change of Course would be allowed within 15 days of the closure of admissions as follows:

- For Jan admissions        :               Up to 31st March
- For July admissions       :               Up to 30th September

3.   Transfer from full-time and part-time courses from IMT to Distance Learning courses of IMT-Centre for Distance Learning: All such cases shall be treated as fresh admission cases.

Improvement in examination /assignment performance

The chance to improve the performance in the end-term examination or assignment shall be allowed within three months of the declaration of the result thereof, only after permission has been granted by IMT-CDL head office to improve the performance. The improvement fee shall be Rs. 500/- per subject of ETE/Supplementary Exam and Rs. 500/- for each assignment.

Policy relating to Late Fee

Fee for late admissions: Rs. 2000/-
New admissions/readmission schedule for the late fee would be as follows:

- For Jan admissions:      1st March to 15th March
- For July admission:       1st September to 15th September

Note: Separate Demand Draft favouring 'Institute of Management Technology - Centre for Distance Learning' for Late Fee is required.

Policy relating to Dual Specialisation

The students are allowed to seek dual specialisation by selecting five subjects from each field. Besides the course work, after the final semester students have to submit a dissertation related to their major specialisation. The student has to pay an additional fee of Rs. 10,000/- for Dual Specilisation. The course is to be completed in Dual Specialisation also within maximum period of four years. The programme offers specialisations in the areas of Finance, Marketing, Systems, Operations, Human Resource Management and International Business.

Policy for Project Work

The project work undertaken should be authentic and should contribute towards the development and growth of the subject. If the Expert Committee feels that the project work undertaken does not appear to be authentic or does not contribute towards the growth of the subject or it has been merely copied from some source, the institute has the right to reject the project work summarily. In that case, the student may be asked to resubmit the project.
Project Work is to be undertaken by the student in the fourth module of Two Year PGDBM programme, where the students will have to go through the following steps:

1. Selection of the Project work topic and getting the synopsis approved by the expert committee of IMT-CDL H.O. only.
2. After the approval of Project Synopsis, student can work upon his Project Report which shall be submitted latest by 31st May  for June ETE and 30th November for Dec ETE without any late fee.
3. Viva-voce will be conducted at the IMT-CDL H.O. and Regional Centres (Hyderabad, Kolkata, Mumbai). Student can submit the Project Report with the photocopy of approved Synopsis and appear for viva-voce at the Centre of his choice.
4. Viva-Voce will be conducted by the panel of expert committee.
5. Project Viva Result will be declared with the ETE result.

The following dates should be adhered to under all conditions:

Last date for submission of the PROJECT SYNOPSIS

- For January Semester (June ETE) - 15th February (28th February with late fee of Rs. 1000/-)
- For July Semester (December ETE) - 17th August (31st August with late fee of Rs. 1000/-)

Last date for submission of the PROJECT WORK

- For January Semester (June ETE)           -              31st May (15th June with late fee of Rs. 1000/-)
- For July Semester (December ETE)        -              30th November (15th December with late fee of Rs. 1000/-)

Project Guide selected by the student should be an expert in the relevant discipline with a minimum of five years of work experience.

Project Viva will be conducted by a panel of three experts.
Students are required to give Viva of the project work preferably through power point presentation.

Evaluation Criteria for Project Work

Policy for Project Work

The porject work undertaken should be authentic and should contribute towards the development and growth of the subject. If the Expert Committee feels that the project work undertaken does not appear to be authentic or does not contribute towards the growth of the subject or it has been merely copied from some source, the institute has the right to reject the project work summarily. In that case, the student may be asked to resubmit the project.

Facilities for Admissions etc.

A. Admissions

1. All information centres of Institute of Management Technology - Centre for Distance Learning (IMT - CDL) shall be rendering, through personal contact, telephonic contact, e-mail or postal correspondence, the counselling services to the students seeking admission or those who have already sought admission to any programme.
2. The facility of the availability of admission forms has been extended to information centres also besides the same being available from the Head Quarters of IMT - CDL.
3. The duly filled forms along with the draft for the fee may also be submitted to the information centres of IMT - CDL.
4. The entrance test for the admission to the respective programmes shall be held at all the information centres of IMT - CDL.
5. The facility of off-line (written) entrance test shall continue till on-line entrance test is introduced.
6. The change of course, change of centre, change of address, change of name, refund of fee, etc. shall be dealt by the Head Quarters of IMT - CDL only on the recommendations of the respective information centre. This facility is subject to the Policy of IMT - CDL as given in the Brochure.
7. A student cannot undergo two courses of IMT - CDL at a time. If any student is found to have opted for two courses, he/she will have to withdraw from one course and the fee paid by him/her for that course will not be refunded.
8. Twenty students will be allowed in each session to study without any fee in One Year and Two Year PG courses for those candidates whose yearly income is below poverty line and the candidate should be throughout first class till graduation.
   
   Note: For the date of admission test, refer to the advertisement as well as website of IMT  CDL, www.imtcdl.ac.in

B.  Study Material

1. The Self Study Manuals Kit shall be sent by the Head Quarters of IMT - CDL to the information centres to be personally collected by the students who have been admitted to different programmes.
2. The study material already supplied to any student should be returned to the respective information centre of IMT - CDL in case of change of course. Fresh study material in case of change of course shall be supplied only after the old study material has been returned by the student.
3. The study material applicable to a particular session given to a student will not be changed.

C.  Assignments

1. If the option of off-line assignments has been exercised by the student, then questions can be taken out from the website of IMT - CDL 'www.imtcdl.ac.in'  In case of any problem, students can contact the respective information centre.
2. The students shall submit the completed assignment maximum upto fourth semester of current session at the respective information centre. The completed assignment must be submitted latest by 15th June for June ETE and by 15th December for December ETE. After that, the assignment shall be accepted latest by 15th July and 15th January, respectively, for June and December ETE with late fee of Rs.500/- per assignment at IMT-CDL H.O. only. Such assignments should be sent with late fee only to IMT - CDL, Ghaziabad.
3. The checked assignments with comments/feedback will be returned to the students.

D. Personal Contact Classes

1. The students shall personally collect the schedule for Personal Contact Classes (PCP) from their respective information centres and shall avail the facility of PCP accordingly.
2. Those students should invariably attend the PCP since 10% marks are assigned to PCP attendance.
3. All information centres would conduct PCP at weekends. Head Quarter will conduct PCP on Sundays as per the schedule notified.

E. Examinations

1. Students can collect the examination information from their respective Information Centres besides website.
2. Old question papers can also be collected by the students from the respective Information Centres or can be downloaded from the website.
3. Revaluation and retotalling can be applied by students through respective study centres by paying the necessary fee.

F.  Conduct of Examinations

End-Term Examinations

• All End Term Examinations (June and December) in all Information Centres (except NCR and Regional Centres) would be conducted only in online mode.
• In NCR and Regional Centres, End-Term Examinations (June and December) would be in both modes — offline & online.

Supplementary Examinations

• All Supplementary Examinations (March & September) would be only in online mode at all Information Centres, NCR and Regional Centres.

Note:

1. All students are required to consult the website of IMT - CDL for any information, notice, news, etc.
2. Students are required to mention their roll no. as well as e-mail ID (if any) invariably in all the correspondence with IMT - CDL.
3. All policies, rules, regulations, fee structure, syllabus, facilities, addition/cancellation of information centres, etc. are subject to review and change from time to time as per requirement. The changed policies, rules, etc. shall be binding on all the students.
4. Any dispute is subject to the jurisdiction of Ghaziabad court only.

Marks Distribution and Passing Percentage

The students have to secure 28 marks out of 70 marks for End-term Examination and submission of assignments per subject is compulsory for our various management programmes. However, the total pass percentage would be 45% per subject. Scholastic achievement is classified under three heads:

Ist Division         :               Students with an aggregate percentage of 60% marks or above.
IInd Division       :               Students with an aggregate percentage of 50% marks and below 60% marks.
IIIrd Division      :               Students with an aggregate percentage of 45% marks and below 50% marks.

Students aggregating less than 45% marks are declared as ‘failed’ for Post-Graduate courses.

Note: Applicable for the admissions of January 2010 onwards.