I am student of the Vellore Institute Of Technology (VIT) and there I came to know new grading system is applied at the University. Can you tell me how this new grading system is benefited to the students if VIT? Also tell me whet are the major changes done in the new grading system?

The information about the Examination Schedule as well as the marking system and also the details of the grading system followed by VIT is as given below:

Exam Schedule
There are 3 types of theory exams:
The Quiz
The CAT (Continuous Assessment Test)
The TEE (Term End Exam)
Distributed among the whole semester, there are 6 exams altogether – 3 quizes, 2

The marking system
There are several exams to write in, then definitely there would be a lot of marks to play for. Well that’s not the case at VIT because your total marks for a subject at the end of the semester will just be from 100.

Here is the break up
• Quiz:
5 marks each; MCQ type questions; total= 3 x 5 = 15 marks
• 1 assignment = 5 marks
• CAT
50 marks subjective paper; 1.5 hours to write; 50 marks are reduced to 15; total= 50 x 0.3 x 2= 30
• These are your internals; total = 50
• TEE
100 marks 3 hours subjective paper; 3 hours; 100 reduced to 50; total = 50
• Grand Total = 100

Relative Grading System

In the new aggressive world, it is not essential to be great. All you need is to be superior to the rest. This structures the premise of the relative evaluating framework.

Your evaluations are distributed to you by isolating the 100 imprints into 7 pieces. These pieces are named S, A, B, C, D, E and for the individuals who have fizzled it is F.

S is for an extra ordinary performance
• A for a good score
• B for an above average score
• C for an under average score
• D for a bad score
• E for a close shave
• F for failed.

Continue reading for the mathematical analysis of these grades.
Well so these grades have certain numeric value
• S = 10
• A = 9
• B = 8
• C = 7
• D = 6
• E = 5
• F = fail (0)

Say u get a A in 1 subject, a B in 2nd, s in 3rd, etc. then the grade points of a subject is given by
Grade point GP= Grade x No. of credits
The total no. of grade points are the sum of grade points in every subject of that semester.
These are averaged out by the total number of credits to give a Grade Point Average
GPA = total Grade points / total credits
This will give you a factor out of 10 and that’s your score to boast/cry about at the end of semester.
There is also a term called as CGPA (Cumulative GPA)
CGPA= GPA of sem1 x credits + GPA of sem2 x credits… / total no. of credits completed.

The math behind the evaluations

Among each class, that is, under each workforce, there are 65 understudies. The normal (µ) of these understudies is taken. Let's assume it ends up being 72/100. Likewise another component the standard deviation (σ) is computed. Let's assume it ends up being 15. The evaluations are granted as

• S: marks > µ + 1.5σ (with min 90)
• A: µ + 1.5σ >marks > µ + 0.5σ
• B: µ + 0.5σ >marks > µ
• C: µ >marks > µ-0.5
• D: µ-0.5 >marks > µ - σ
• E: µ - σ >marks > µ- 1.5σ
• F: marks < µ - 1.5σ