Review of a 2nd year student

My course is psychology and the first 4 semesters involve the basics of psychology. It's in the form of a programme with Psychology as the core subject, Physiology and Statistics as complementary subjects, a general English course and a second language. All these subjects are compulsary and the CGPA is calculated by taking the average of all the course's scores. It's only in the 5th and 6th semester or 3rd year that we get to study just psychology and even select an open course. Personally, I find it very useless to have compulsory general language courses and a fixed set of complementary subjects. Even if you do well in your main subjects, your CGPA can drop just because you did bad in language subjects. Some people just don't want to learn that. It would be better off if students had the option to choose their courses. So, overall in terms of real-world applications I think the programme and syllabus structure could be improved. The teaching methods and exam administration are good.

As for the tuition fee, my programme is aided so there is no tuition fees. However a small amount does need to be paid every semester and then there is also the external semester exam fees. There are a lot of scholarship options, details of which is posted on the college notice board.

Conducting department fests is highly encouraged. There is also a big support and appreciation for both sports and arts in the college. The library also offers a variety of books especially the reference textbooks required in the syllabus. There is a smart board in every class which all the teachers use and has been quite helpful for learning. The college website is also to be appreciated. It is where you can check and apply for attendance, pay the examination fee, check internal and external examination results, download hall ticket, etc.

The eligibility of the course was mainly considered by checking the total score of the higher secondary examination plus bonus score (50% of your marks in the core subject, in my case psychology). The admission process was fairly quick. I applied through the college website which had all the necessary instructions. After applying, the sure list and waiting list was published in the college website. And afterwards, I was called in for the admission process with required documents.