BENEFITS OF ACADEMIC
CREDIT SYSTEM
 Keep track of student process and
determine when he or she has met
the requirements for awarding a
specific academic degree.
 Offer a good estimate of the
workload of a programme and how
it is distributed between the
different higher education
activities.
 Some academic credit systems
permit students to transfer to
different programmes and keep
part or all of their previously
earned credit points.
 If a student has not graduated a
study programme, but wants to
find a job, earned academic credits
may be presented to employers as
proof of previous studies.
 Some universities use academic
study credits to set programme
costs.
CHARACTERISTICS semester system accelerates the
teaching-learning process and enables
 Term credit has a connation of vertical and horizontal mobility in
achievement or earning. learning. The credit based semester
 It in the present context also system provides flexibility in designing
implies successful completion of
curriculum and assigning credits based
course of study measured in term on the course content and hours of
of classroom instruction
teaching. The choice based credit
hours/week in the courses being system provides a ‘cafeteria’ type
studied in the semester.
approach in which the students can take
 It is also an identification of courses of their choice, learn at their
credits for a learning effort.
own pace, undergo additional courses
 It also an identification of credits and acquire more than the required
for a learning effort.
credits, and adopt an interdisciplinary
 It also measures the volume of the approach to learning. It is desirable
content to be delivered in the
that the HEIs move to CBCS and
course being studied implement the grading system.
 Credit of the course also indicated
the weightage of the course for
calculating grade point average.
Semester System and Choice Based
Credit System
Presented by:
The Indian Higher Education
Institutions have been moving from the Amanda Kharsamai
conventional annual system to semester
system. Currently many of the Roll no- 02
institutions have already introduced the
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choice based credit system. The