GITAM School of Humanities and Social Sciences (GSHS)

GITAM Hyderabad
Guidelines for conducting Examinations

1. Every Course consists of two Midterm Assessments for 20 marks each and the
End Semester Examination for 60 marks. Total Marks earmarked for each course
are 100.

2. Midterm Assessments
 The students shall write the two Midterm assessments or choose to
write the special Midterm assessment if they miss anyone Midterm due
to a medical emergency or authentic and unavoidable reasons.
 Each assessment is for 20 marks. Total Midterm assessment marks would
be 40.
 Choose one out of the two given questions.
 The word limit for writing the answer: 900 - 1300 words.
 Word Processing: Times New Roman, 12 size, Double Space, with a
minimum of 1" margin.

3. End Semester Examination for 60 Marks:

End Semester Examination follows the guidelines and the instructions received
from the Controller of Examinations.

4. Syllabus coverage:
 Midterm Assessment I covers Unit I & Unit II.
 Midterm Assessment II covers Unit III and Unit IV.
 End Semester Examination covers all the units.

5. Course Instructors:
 The given question has to assess the students’ 'Critical and Analytical
Thinking' than Descriptive Skills.
 The course instructor must submit the Midterm Assessment question
paper, Assessment Criteria, and Rubrics to
gshs.examinations@gitam.in at least two days before the assessment date.
 Plagiarism check is mandatory. The course instructor needs to check
every answer script using Anti-plagiarism software.
 Students get 24 hours to submit the answer scripts using the registered
GITAM mail IDs. For example, the assessment is on 14 October 2020. In
that case, the course instructor can release the question paper at 10.00 am
 in Moodle and accept the students' responses any time on or before 24
hours, i.e., 15 October 2020, 10.00 am. Delay in the submission for each
day will carry a penalty of 10% of the marks the students obtained.
 The answer script with less than 10% plagiarism must be corrected
highlighting the paper's strengths and weaknesses in terms of feedback.
Each student may discuss the feedback with the course instructor in an
individual meeting.
 The course instructor must submit all the answer scripts in a zip file of a
particular course to the Examination Coordinator, GSHS, within a week.
For instance, if the examination is on 14 October 2020, students' answer
scripts, Midterm Assessment question paper, Assessment Criteria,
and Rubrics must be uploaded in the link shared on or before
21 November 2020.

6. Students:
 The students need to submit the answers in the sample answer script shared
by the course instructor.
 They should check for plagiarism before submitting the answer scripts to
the course instructor.
 They are advised to apply 'Critical and Analytical Thinking' than
Descriptive Skills.
 They get 24 hours to submit the answer scripts using the registered GITAM
mail IDs. They should strictly adhere to submission deadlines. For
example, if the student gets the question paper on 14 October 2020 at 10.00
am for a particular course, s/he must submit the answer script on or before
10.00 am on 15 Oct. 2020. The delay of every 24 hours will carry a penalty
of 10% marks obtained in a particular course.

Director, GSHS