CBCS and OBE System

Nehru Arts and Science College, affiliated to Bharathiar University, Coimbatore was conferred with Autonomous status during 2017 . The institution follows the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) as per the guidelines of the University Grants Commission (UGC) and the affiliating Bharathiar University.

All the programmes offered by the college is under the CBCS framework. The Choice Based Credit System has been introduced with the objective of offering greater flexibility in the choice of courses to students.

Objectives of the Choice Based Credit System

• To facilitate greater flexibility for students in choosing their courses.
• To widen the spectrum of students’ knowledge through Core, Allied, Project, Elective, Value added Course, Value Education, Environmental Studies, and Skill-Based courses.
• To revamp the curriculum to impart entrepreneurial skills and enhance employability and placement potential.
• To incorporate need-based knowledge in tune with the location and neighbourhood of the institution.
• To allocate credit points to each course based on the weightage of contact hours, content, and quality.
• To extend opportunities to fast learners to earn additional credits through advanced and additional courses.
• To maintain the total credit points of each programme in alignment with international standards.
• To assess student performance in terms of both marks and credit points.

Structure and Credit Distribution under CBCS (RCS 2024)

The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) curriculum is organized into five components, ensuring a balanced integration of academic, skill-oriented, and experiential learning.

Nehru Arts and Science College is implementing Outcome Based Education (OBE) from the Academic year 2018 – 2019. OBE is an educational theory that bases each part of an educational system around goals (outcomes). By the end of the educational experience, each student should have achieved the goal.

Objectives of Outcome based curriculum

• The Programme Outcomes and Programme Specific Outcomes are clearly identified and unambiguously specified regarding the content, context and competence.
• The expected outcome should be defined by setting bench marks for each level of the programme. Benchmark should tackle and define specifically, the goals of the curriculum and verify ways to access whether the students have reached these goals at the level of study;
•  OBE is driven by assessments that focus on well-defined learning outcomes and not by other factors such as what is taught, the duration taken by the student to achieve the outcomes or which path the students take to achieve their targets.   In OBE, assessment techniques must be with clear description of expected performance.

Definitions Outcome:

An outcome of an educational programme describes what a student should be able to do at the end of a Programme, Course, or Instructional Unit.

Levels of Outcomes

In connection with OBE, we are following Bloom’s Taxonomy for teaching, learning and evaluation process to improve the skills of the students.
Bloom’s Taxonomy primarily provides instructors with a focus for developing their course learning objectives. It can be used to increase student understanding of the learning process. Teachers can understand the complex cognitive development and how lower-level skills build into higher-order thinking (e.g., recalling facts and comprehending previous problems allows a student to apply their experience to similar problems).

All Question Papers should follow the given levels: