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Counselling Sessions
In distance education, face-to-face contact between the learners and
their tutors/counsellors is relatively less. The purpose of such a
contact is to answer some of your questions and clarify your doubts
which may not be possible through any other means of communication.
It also provides you with an opportunity to meet your fellow students.
There are academic counsellors at the Study Centres to provide counselling
and guidance to you in the courses that you have chosen for study.
Normally, these sessions will be held at the study centres on Saturdays
and Sundays.
You should note that the counselling sessions will be very different
from the classroom teaching or lectures. Counsellors will not be delivering
lectures as in conventional teaching. They will try to help you to
overcome difficulties which you face while studying for the MCA programme.
In these sessions, you must try to resolve your subject-based difficulties
and any other related problems.
Practical Sessions
The practical sessions will be held in the computer centres / labs
of the Study Centres. In these computer labs, the participants will
have the facility to use the computer and software packages relevant
to the syllabus. The following points regarding the practical attendance
must be noted:
- 70% attendance is compulsory for each lab course. However, this
condition is not applicable for the computer time given for assignment
implementation.
- This is a pre-requisite for taking the term-end practical examination
in the respective lab courses.
- A student who fails to fulfil the 70% attendance requirements will
be allowed to re-register for that lab course. For fee details and
the application form, please contact your Regional Centre.
- Students are required to prepare a separate lab record for each
lab course. This lab record should be duly signed by the practical
counsellor after each session.
- Student attendance will be recorded coursewise at the study centre.
- Strictly follow the guidelines given in the Lab manuals for the
respective lab courses.
- Computer to Student ratio will be 1:2.
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