Madras Christian College

Madras Christian College was established in the year 1837 by a missionary from Scotland and with a batch of just 59 students. The college went on to become one of the first colleges in India to gain an ‘autonomous’ status and was granted with ‘College with Potential for Excellence’ status by UGC. The college offers undergraduate and post graduate courses in the field of arts, science and commerce. The college is affiliated to University of Madras and is accredited by NAAC with ‘A’ grade.

he ontinuous Assessment and End of Semester Examination, each carrying 50% marks, will form the basis for grading student performance in each paper.

Continuous Assessment

• Continuous Assessment will be made normally by the teachers responsible for the courses they teach on dates centrally fixed by the college. There will be three tests held for each paper- two written test and a programme of accepted innovative techniques such as seminars, term paper, project, assignment, port folio, power-point presentation, quiz, objective tests etc. ( the programme of such evaluation will be fixed before the commencement of that semester in consultion with the respective Acadamic Deans). Each test will be carry a maximum of 50 marks and lowest of the three test will be ignored. Retest is not allowed except in the case of students who miss one or more CA tests because they were away on those days representing college in sports or cultural activities or for any justifiable reason acceptable to the Principal. Principal may grant special permission to such candidates for taking just one additional test of three hours duration covering the entire syllabus of that paper. This test should be taken before the commencement of End of Semester Examination of that semester. 
• A record of such assessment procedure will be maintained by the department and is open for clarification by the students. Students will have the right to appeal to the Principal in case of glaring disparities in marking. The dates and the scheme for the two written tests will be the same as those of the first and the third CA tests under provision (a-i) above, as fixed by the College. 
• Candidates who fail in a paper for want of sufficient marks in CA test will have to seek improvement by coming back to the semester for CA exams or repeating it after the completion of the course at the time of regular CA Test.