Academic session of the College normally begins in June and ends in May every year. Admission starts soon after the publication of Board/Council / University Examination result and continues as per rule prescribed by the University / Council.

Aspirant student for +2 and +3 classes should follow e-admission process of SAMS.

A Common Prospectus including e-Admission related information is available in the higher education website www.dheodisha.in for reference.

e-Admission

(A) Components of SAMS:

e-Admission consists of a centralized admission process through a common application form (CAF) with help of IT through a web based application software.

An applicant can apply up to 10 choices of college and streams through a single form and will be allotted a seat based on his/her choice and marks in the qualifying Exams taking reservation & weightage into account.

(B) Introduction:
Since Now SAMS e-Admission process is being followed in District Higher Secondary Schools and Degree College of our State.

BACHELOR OF ARTS, SCIENCE AND COMMERCE COURSES UNDER CBCS (SEMESTER PATTERN)

1. The Three Year Degree Course leading to the Bachelor's Degree in Arts / Science / Commerce of Fakir Mohan University shall be spread over a period of three academic years and it will have six semesters. Odd semester (i.e.1st, 3rd & 5th) is from 1st June to 30th November and the examination shall be held normally in the month of November. Even semester (i.e. 2nd, 4th & 6th) is from 1st December to 31st May and the examination shall be held normally in the month of April/May. However, the Final Semester shall be conducted in April and it is desirable that the result shall be published within 30 days and not beyond 45 days from the date of completion of the examination. A student would be required to complete the course within six academic years from the date of admission.

2. ELIGIBILITY FOR ADMISSION TO THE COURSE
A student who has passed Higher Secondary / +2 / Senior Secondary or any other equivalent examination from any Board / Council established by the Govt. of India or any State Govt. or any other equivalent examination recognized by Central Board of Secondary Education/ Council of Higher Secondary Education, Govt. of Odisha/ of Industry or any other Department of Govt. of Odisha. Those joining B.Sc. Programme must have passed the above examination under the faculty of Science/ Technology / Engineering/ Pharmacy etc. There shall be no such restriction for joining BA/ B.Com stream. Students ordinarily may be selected for admission through merit in the qualifying examination. Directorate of Distance & Continuing Education (DDCE) would admit students on first come first serve basis. The Govt. of Odisha may lay down admission process for colleges under its control. DDCE would decide its own admission policy.

3. COMPULSORY REGISTRATION:
a). Registration for the 1st semester examination is compulsory and will be at the time of admission. All the students admitted in 1st semester of a college will compulsorily be registered by the University. A registration / examination card will be issued to the candidates admitted and that will remain valid till completion of the course. There will be no need to issue admit card for every semester. The candidates fulfilling the attendance norms, deposit of Exam Fees and other eligibility criteria will be allowed to appear the examination. Students will not be required to fill up any form for the University examination for regular papers. Examination Fee will be collected at the time of admission/re-admission and affiliated Colleges will be required to send the appearing students list along with the requisite fees to the university before the cut-off date for each semester. If a student does not appear for all the papers in both first and second semester examinations, his admission for the said course will be cancelled. Fakir Mohan University will notify all fees to be paid before admission process.

b). For students desiring to appear in any back paper(s), they would be required to fill up the examination forms. Those who fail in any paper in a semester or unable to appear in any semester or unable to submit forms for back papers of 2/3/4/5/6 may appear in those papers in subsequent semester examination within 6 years from the date of admission to that course. A student must clear backlog papers (failed) within 6 academic years starting from the year of admission batch.

c). Back papers are to be permitted in consecutive semesters for the first attempt to clear back paper. Subsequent attempts will be allowed in alternate semester (example: A student failing in a paper of Semester-I, will be allowed to appear for the paper in Semester II. If he/she fails to clear this back paper in Semester II, he will get the next opportunity in Semester IV, Semester VI etc. only), this practice is to ensure earliest opportunity to the student as well as timely conduct of regular paper exams.

4. ATTENDANCE:
a). A candidate shall be required to attend at least 75% of the lectures in theory and practical classes taken separately.

b). Condonation may be granted by the Principal (In case of affiliated Colleges) to the extent of 15% in exceptional cases i.e. serious illness & hospitalization, accident, mishap in the family or deputation by the college for any specific work for which the period of his/her absence shall not be counted towards the calculation of attendance on the condition that students concerned submit a certificate to that effect from the appropriate authority.

c). Further to the above, the Principal may grant further condoning of shortage in attendance to the extent of 10% in respect of candidates who represent the University or State for Inter-University or inter-state competitions in Games and Sports or attending different recognized National level camps.

d). Under no circumstance, the condoning shall be beyond 25%. e). This clause shall not be applicable for Distance Education.

5. OUTLINES OF CHOICE BASED CREDIT SYSTEM (ARTS / SCIENCE/COMMERCE STREAM)
a). Core Course (14 papers) for Bachelor's degree in a particular discipline:
The course designed for papers under this category aim to cover the basics that a student is expected to imbibe in that particular discipline. A course, which should compulsorily be studied by a candidate as a core requirement is termed as a Core course. In BA Pass course, MIL1, MIL2, English 1 and English 2 are also core courses. The Institution/student may refer to the Corresponding Language syllabus for the same.

b). Discipline Specific Elective (DSE) Course (4 Papers): Elective courses offered under the main discipline/subject of study is referred to as Discipline Specific Elective.

c). Dissertation/Project:
An elective course designed to acquire special/advanced knowledge, such as supplement study/support study to a project work. A candidate studies such a course on his own with an advisory support by a teacher/ faculty member is called dissertation / project.

d). Generic Elective (GE) Course (4 papers):
An elective course chosen from an unrelated discipline/subject, with an intention to seek exposure beyond discipline/s of choice is called a Generic Elective. The purpose of this category of papers is to offer the students the option to explore disciplines of interest beyond the choices they make in Core and Discipline Specific Elective papers.

A student of B.Sc. Honours/B.A. Honours will opt two papers each in two subjects as GE other than his Honours subject. For B.Com. Honours and Non-Hons, the four GE subjects have been fixed. A student of B.A. Non-Hons will opt two papers in one GE subject other than the core courses.

e). Ability Enhancement Compulsory Courses (AECC):
Paper I: MIL Communication (English / Odia / Hindi / Sanskrit / Urdu)
Paper II: Environmental Science.

f). Skill Enhancement Courses (SEC):
These courses may be chosen from the following courses and a College has to choose the courses as per the availability of faculty/suitability of the college, to provide skill-based knowledge. The main purpose of these courses is to provide students life-skills so as to increase their employability. A Student opting for Honours would have to take two SEC and a student offering Pass papers would take four papers of SEC. List of SEC Courses offered by Fakir Mohan University:-
1. Communicative English and Grammar
2. Quantitative and Logical Thinking
3. Bio-fertilizer
4. Mushroom Cultivation
5. Renewable Energy and Energy harvesting 6. Fuel Chemistry
7. Python Programming
8. Office Management
9. Computer Graphics
10. E-Commerce
11. Data Analysis and Computer Application
12. Applied Reasoning
13. Legislature Practice and procedures
14. Personality and Life Skill Development
15. Home based Catering
Note: Specific language teachers can be assigned to teach AECC-I. Life Science Faculty can be assigned to Environment Studies (AECC-II), English Faculty for Communicative English, Mathematics faculty to quantitative aptitude and Logical Reasoning, computer science or IT faculty for ICT related courses, commerce faculty for financial skills etc.

6. DURATION OF THE EXAMINATIONS - MID SEMESTER & END SEMESTER:
The Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) examination shall be implemented in Semester pattern. Examination time table for the odd semester will be communicated by 20th June and even semester by 7th December. Each semester examination shall consist of a Mid-Semester (Internal) Examination and End Semester examination. Mid Semester examination shall be conducted only for theory papers. End Semester Examination in theory papers carrying full marks above 50 (e.g. 60, 75, 80 etc.) shall be of 3 hours duration and practical shall be of 3 hours (for full marks carrying 25). On the other hand, theory papers carrying 50 marks or below shall be of 2 hours duration.

7. MID SEMESTER EXAMINATION:
a). Mid semester examination will be of 01-hour duration for 20/15 marks (20 for subjects having no practical and 15 for subject with practical papers). There shall be no pass mark in Mid Semester examination. The type of questions will be decided by the college authority.
b). The Mid-Semester Examination shall be conducted and valued by the Teacher(s) who are teaching the corresponding paper or by any external faculty in the college(s). A student who fails to appear in a Mid-Semester Examination will be allowed one more consecutive chance to take the same examination. There will be no provision to re-appear in the Mid-Semester Examination for improvement.
c). The College has to conduct the Mid Semester Examination between 15th September to 30th September for1st, 3rd, & 5th Semester and in between 1st March to 15th March for 2nd, 4th, & 6th Semester respectively and will deposit the sealed mark foils at the University within 15 days from the date of examination. In case of Mid Semester examination of Semester-l, marks shall be deposited by 30th October.
d). The College authority will preserve the answer script of the Mid Semester examination for 06 months from the date of publication of result of concerned semester for reference.
e). The College authority of the valuation zones/University authority will preserve the answer Script of the End Semester examination for06 months from the date of publication of result for reference. f). For DDCE students, DDCE shall frame its policy for Mid Semester examination.
g). A student has to appear the Mid Semester Examination. Absence in a Mid Semester paper will be declared as failed in that Paper. A student who was absent in the Mid Semester examination during both the chances but has passed at the University End Term examination shall be treated as failed in that Semester. Such candidates would be required to appear the Mid-Semester Examinations in subsequent semester as outlined in 7.b.

8. MARK DISTRIBUTION:
a). Subject without Practical:
Mid semester - 20
End semester - 80
Total - 100

b). Subjects with Practical:
Mid semester - 20
End semester - 85
{(a) Theory - 60 and (b) Practical - 25 (20+5 for record)}
Total - 100

c). Projects: The mark distribution would be subject specific. In general, the Project report will carry 80 marks and viva voce/Seminar will carry 20 marks. The report marks will be subdivided as: Introduction and context: 10 marks; Literature survey: 10 marks; Actual project work Methodology: 20 marks, Results, discussion, critical analysis: 10 marks; Clarity of thought and aesthetics of report: 10 marks.

Reservation of Seats
Some seats are reserved for different categories applicants as mentioned below. Such seals shall be filled up subject to the applicant's fulfillment of minimum eligibility criteria.
(i) Scheduled Caste (SC) 08%
(ii) Scheduled Tribe (ST) 12%
(iii) Self / Children / Wife of Ex-servicemen (ESM) 01%
(iv) Children of Army Personal (ESM) died on action 02%
(v) Children of Serving Army Personnel (AP) 01%
(vi) Children of Government Servant / Defense Personnel on transfer within normal time of admissions (GSOT) 04%
(vii) OH/PH/Disability (with more than 40% disability) 03%
(viii) Children of Burma Repatriate (BR) 02%

Notes:
(i) SC/ST candidates are required to submit recent caste certificate from the local MLA/MP/ Revenue Officer not below the rank of a Tahasildar. If all the SC/ST reserved seats are filled up and eligible candidates of a particular category are in waiting list for admission, the Principal may increase extra (40% for Arts and Commerce, and 50% for Science stream). In case of SC/ST, reservation of one category is not transferable to the other.
(ii) Applicants claiming admission under ESM category must submit certificate issued by Rajya /Zilla Sainik Board.
(iii) A Government servant retiring from service and shifting to a place where he /she wishes to reside after retirement shall be treated as Government servant on transfer. Children of Government servant on deputation to any Government / Non Government agency shall be eligible for the reservation.
(iv) A handicapped candidate shall be considered for reserved seats only on production of certificate from CDMO / Officer not below the rank of CDMO to the effect that he/she has a major orthopedically / physical handicap to the extent of more than 40% disability.
(v) Restriction of admission for students belonging to other states: Admission of candidate passing from institutions outside the state is limited to 5% of the general merit list.
(vi) Applicants claiming admission on reservation have to fulfill the minimum eligibility conditions.
(vii) No seats shall remain reserved for any category beyond normal date of admission.
(viii) Reservation is not extendable for admission into the honours classes.

Weightage
Extra percentage of marks as detailed below will be added to the aggregate marks of the last qualifying examination of the applicant claiming weightage.

But in no case the total number of students under this category will exceed 10% of the sanctioned seats.

(i) National Cadet Corps (NCC)
10% of effective mark for candidates holding certificate 'B', 5% of effective mark for candidates representing the State in NCC activities at the All India Level Camps / Courses. (This weightage shall not be allowed to those who have not passed the HS or equivalent examination in their first appearance. Camps Courses certificate must be signed by competent authority).

(ii) National Service Scheme (NSS)
Direct admission to NSS volunteers who have represented the country in NSS at the international level, 7% for NSS volunteers who have received the National NSS award, 5% for NSS volunteers who have received the State award, 3% for best NSS awardees NSS volunteer at University level. (NSS certificate must have to be countersigned by the Assistant Programme Adviser, NSS regional Centre, Bhubaneswar).

(iii) Rovers and Rangers (RR)
5% weightage will be given to Rajya Puraskar Awardees in Rovers / Rangers, 10% weightage given to President's Rovers / Rangers. (Certificate issued by Governor for Rajya Puraskar Awardees by President of India for Present's Rovers / Rangers).

(iv) Sports and Games (SG)
Direct admission for representing the country at international level. 10% weightage for representing the State, 5% for State, 5% for representing the Council / University. (The certificate of the applicants claiming weightage in sports have to be countersigned by Director of Sports, Government of Orissa).

(v) Weightage to Women for Subjects not Available in Local Women's College.

(vi) 5% of effective mark for women applicants seeking admission with subjects not available in the local women's college. If admitted, they will not be allowed to change their subject during the course.

(vii) Commerce Students Seeking Admission to UG Commerce 5% of effective marks will be given as weightage to the students of Commerce seeking admission to UG Commerce.

Lectures Proctorial Classes and Practical
(1) As soon as the admission to the college are over, a time table is notified by the Principal starting the date of beginning of lectures. When proctorial and practical groups are formed and notified, it is the duty of the students to find out their respective groups from their concerned teachers on from college notice board or website.
(2) Students are required to attend their classes regularly and punctually. 75% attendance in every subject is mandatory.
(3) Students should take their seats before the teachers enter the classrooms and should not ordinarily leave their seats during the course of a lecture. In case of latecomers, they may enter, if the concerned teacher allows.
(4) Every student must behave in the classroom in a polished and disciplined manner Students not connected with lecturer should not assemble in front of the class room or make noise of any type. No student or any groups of students have the right to disturb the lecturer in any time and this will be treated as gross violation of th, rctol epe rule.
(5) Girl students should be treated properly. Any sort of misbehavior is to be viewed seriously. Girl students should be allowed to occupy seats in the front rows of seats provided separately for them.
(6) Students should come to the college as per their dress code properly.

Attendance:
Under the regulation of Council/University, a student in order to be eligible for being sent up for University / Council examination should attend in each subject a minimum of 75% of lecturers, tutorial or practical, calculated separately. The concerned authority may condone the shortage of percentage of a student to an extent of 5% only in exceptional circumstances. There is no law that can help any student falling short of percentage.