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Assistant Dean, Academics

24 July 2015 15:38
'allstudents.vellore@vit.ac.in'
Director Placement; 'dean.academics@vit.ac.in'; All Programme Chairs Group,
Vellore Campus; All School Managers Group, Vellore Campus
RE: Circular on Bringing Soft skill courses (APT) under graduation credit
requirements
APT_UG_Schedule Fall 2015.pdf; APT_PG_schedule Fall 2015.pdf

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Dear Students
This is to remind you that APT is scheduled for the weekend of 25/26th July. The schedule for any given day is as
follows.
Session 1

Session 2

Session 3

9:00 to 11:00
Module 1
Module 4
Module 7
Module 10
Module 13
Module 16
Module 19

11:15 to 13:15
Module 2
Module 5
Module 8
Module 11
Module 14
Module 17
Module 20

14:00 to 16:00
Module 3
Module 6
Module 9
Module 12
Module 15
Module 18
Module 21

Your individual schedules may be picked form the following PDF files. These files are available on the Intrant and in
your FFCS login.
Regards
Jayasankar Variyar

From: Assistant Dean, Academics

Sent: 23 July 2015 11:41
To: Dean Academics; allstudents.vellore@vit.ac.in
Cc: PROVC Chennai Campus; Dean ACAD Chennai Campus; Deputy COE Chennai; Director Placement; Core Group,
Vellore Campus; VITCC Placement
Subject: RE: Circular on Bringing Soft skill courses (APT) under graduation credit requirements

Dear Students
The schedule for APT for the Fall Semester is given below.
Class
Number

Saturday

Sunday
1

25-Jul-15

26-Jul-15

01-Aug15

02-Aug-15

08-Aug15

09-Aug-15

29-Aug15

30-Aug-15

05-Sep-15

06-Sep-15

12-Sep-15

13-Sep-15

17-Oct-15

18-Oct-15

Your individual schedules will be available in FFCS. You can also access the same from the attached PDF.
Regards
Jayasankar Variyar
From: Dean Academics
Sent: 22 July 2015 16:04
To: allstudents.vellore@vit.ac.in
Cc: All VITians Group (Vellore Campus); PROVC Chennai Campus; Dean ACAD Chennai Campus; Deputy COE Chennai;
Director Placement; Core Group, Vellore Campus
Subject: Circular on Bringing Soft skill courses (APT) under graduation credit requirements

VIT/Dean(Acad)/2015/FFCS/3

22-07-2015

CIRCULAR
Sub.:

Bringing Soft skill courses under graduation credit requirements

Ref.:

Decision of the 37th Academic Council held on 16th June 2015

The 37th Academic Council has considered the suggestion made of NAAC during their campus visit that Soft skill
courses that are being offered to students under Advance Placement Training (APT) be brought under the curriculum
credit requirements. In this regard, the following modifications are being effected in the curricula of various
programmes and in academic regulations.
1. With effect from AY 2015-16 onwards, each soft skill course (APT) offered will be given a weightage of one credit
under the University Core of the Programme curriculum.
2. This additional credit requirement will be added to the minimum credit requirement for graduation for all
Programmes that are undertaking soft skill courses. Hence the total number of credits added to the curriculum
and graduating requirement will be the number of soft skill courses offered from AY2015-16 till the student
graduates, at the rate of one credit per course per semester.
3. This is applicable to all existing programme batches of AY 2015-16.
4. Being a credited course, the grading will be based on 50% weightage from the continuous assessment and balance
50% from the Final Assessment Test (FAT).
5. Absolute grading method will be adopted for evaluating these soft skill courses.
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6. A minimum of 75% attendance is mandatory for all students (without any exceptions) to become eligible to take
the FAT.
7. Being a University Core requirement, student who fail to clear the course needs to re-register the course again
and clear the same.

D.Subhakar
Dean (Academics)
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