32nd Meeting of Academic Council - IGNOU

ACSC 17.8.4
ITEM NO.9
ACSC 17.9.1
ACSC 17.9.2
The ACSC considered and approved the proposed scheme and
recommendations of the Sub-Committee placed at Appendix-7.
TO CONSIDER AND APPROVE WINDING UP OF MCA OLD
SYLLABUS AND ALLOW THE STUDENTS TO RE-
REGISTER FOR THE LEFT OUT SEMESTERS.
Prof. S.C.Garg, Pro Vice-Chancellor informed the members that
consequent upon launching of MCA revised programme from January
2005 cycle, old syllabus has been withdrawn. The University has two
categories of students: (i) those admitted to MCA during January,
2004 (old syllabus) cycle, and (ii) those admitted to MCA (new
syllabus) in January 2005 cycle. The minimum and maximum
durations prescribed for MCA old syllabus are three and seven years,
respectively. Based on the discussion in the meetings of the Task
Force, the School of Computer and Information Sciences prepared a
scheme for registration of students enrolled in the MCA old syllabus
which was placed before the ACSC at its 14 th Meeting held on 29-04-
2005. The scheme envisaged that the students be asked to re-register
for the remaining semesters by July - December 2006 cycles and
thereafter no re-registration would be allowed in MCA old syllabus.
But by the time the minutes of the ACSC were circulated, the students
were practically left with two options for re-registration as against
four chances proposed in the scheme.
A sub-committee of the Task Force (SSS) deliberated on the issues in
detail and recommended the following action:
(i)
(ii)
Students should be allowed to re-register all the
courses of MCA old syllabus up to July, 2007 i.e.
they get four chances – Jan.-June 2006, July-
Dec. 2006, Jan-June 2007 & July-Dec. 2007.
Students may be permitted to re-register for 3 rd
semester (Jan-June 2006 cycle) latest by 15-12-
2005 without late fee. The students support
services required should be provided. No
counseling shall be provided beyond December
2007.
(iii) Students of the batches indicated in
recommendations mentioned in Appendix-8 should
be informed that they need to successfully
complete all the requirements for the award of
MCA by the Dec-2010 T.E.E. Beyond this, no
examination for MCA old syllabus would be
conducted.