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SCIENCE & HUMANITIES

Course File

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Name of the faculty: R.S.SUBRAMANYAM

Designation: ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR

Department: SCIENCE AND HUMANITIES

Name of the Subject: ENGLISH

Subject Code:

JOGINPALLY B.R ENGINEERING COLLEGE

Yenkapally (v), moinabad (m), R.R. Dist

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Syllabus

JAWAHARLAL NEHRU TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY HYDERABAD

I Year B. Tech.L T/P/D C

2-/-/-4

ENGLISH

1. INTRODUCTION:

In view of the growing importance of English as a tool for global communication and

the consequent emphasis on training students to acquire communicative competence, the

syllabus has been designed to develop linguistic and communicative competence of

Engineering students. The prescribed books and the exercises are meant to serve broadly as

students handbooks.

In the English classes, the focus should be on the skills of reading, writing, listening and

speaking and for this the teachers should use the text prescribed for detailed study. Forexample, the students should be encouraged to read the texts/selected paragraphs silently. The

teachers can ask comprehension

questions to stimulate discussion and based on the discussions students can be made to write

short paragraphs/essays etc. The text for non-detailed study is for extensive reading/reading

for pleasure by the students. Hence, it is suggested that they read it on their own with topics

selected for discussion in the class. The time should be utilized for working out the exercises

given after each section , as also for supplementing the exercises with authentic materials of a

similar kind for example, from newspaper articles, advertisements, promotional material etc. .

However, the stress in this syllabus is on skill development and practice oflanguage skills.

2. OBJECTIVES: To improve the language proficiency of the students in English with emphasis on

LSRW skills.

To equip the students to study academic subjects with greater facility through the

theoretical and practical components of the English syllabus.

To develop the study skills and communication skills in formal and informal

situations.

3. SYLLABUS:

Listening Skills:

Objectives

1. To enable students to develop their listening skill so that they may appreciate its role in the

LSRW skills approach to language and improve their pronunciation

2. To equip students with necessary training in listening so that can comprehend the speech of

people of different backgrounds and regions. Students should be given practice in listening to

the sounds of the language to be able to recognize them, to distinguish between them to mark

stress and recognize and use the right intonation in sentences.

Listening for general content

Listening to fill up information

Intensive listening Listening for specific information

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Speaking Skills:

Objectives

1. To make students aware of the role of speaking in English and its contribution to their

success.

2. To enable students to express themselves fluently and appropriately in social and

professional contexts.

Oral practice

Describing objects/situations/people Role play Individual/Group activities (Using exercises from all the nine units of the

prescribed text:

Learning English: A Communicative Approach.)

Just A Minute (JAM) Sessions.

Reading Skills:

Objectives

1. To develop an awareness in the students about the significance of silent reading and

comprehension.

2. To develop the ability of students to guess the meanings of words from context and grasp

the overall message of the text, draw inferences etc. Skimming the text

Understanding the gist of an argument

Identifying the topic sentence

Inferring lexical and contextual meaning

Understanding discourse features

Recognizing coherence/sequencing of sentences

NOTE: The students will be trained in reading skills using the prescribed text for detailedstudy. They will be examined in reading and answering questions using unseen passages

which may be taken from the non-detailed text or other authentic texts, such asmagazines/newspaper articles.

Writing Skills:

Objectives

1. To develop an awareness in the students about writing as an exact and formal skill

2. To equip them with the components of different forms of writing, beginning with the lower

order ones.

Writing sentences

Use of appropriate vocabulary

Paragraph writing

Coherence and cohesiveness Narration / description

Note Making

Formal and informal letter writing

Editing a passage

4. TEXTBOOKS PRESCRIBED:

In order to improve the proficiency of the student in the acquisition of the four skills

mentioned above, the

following texts and course content, divided into Eight Units, are prescribed:

For Detailed study

1 First Text book entitled Enjoying Everyday English, Published by Sangam Books,Hyderabad

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For Non-detailed study

1. Second text bookInspiring Speeches and Lives, Published by Maruthi Publications,

Guntur.

A. STUDY MATERIAL:

Unit I

1. Chapter entitledHeavens Gatefrom Enjoying Everyday English, Published by SangamBooks, Hyderabad

2. Chapter entitledHaragovind Khoranafrom Inspiring Speeches and Lives, Published byMaruthi Publications, Guntur

Unit II

1. Chapter entitledSir CV Raman: A Pathbreaker in the Saga of Indian Science from

Enjoying Everyday English, Published by Sangam Books, Hyderabad

2. Chapter entitled Sam Petroda from Inspiring Speeches and Lives, Published by

Maruthi Publications, Guntur

Unit III1. Chapter entitled The Connoisseur from Enjoying Everyday English, Published by

Sangam Books, Hyderabad

2 Chapter entitledMother Teresa from Inspiring Speeches and Lives, Published by

Maruthi Publications, Guntur

Unit IV

1. Chapter entitled The Cuddalore Experience from Enjoying Everyday English,

Published by

Sangam Books, Hyderabad

2 Chapter entitled Dr Amartya Kumar Sen from Inspiring Speeches and Lives,

Published by Maruthi Publications, Guntur

Unit V

1. Chapter entitled Bubbling Well Roadfrom Enjoying Everyday English, Published bySangam

Books, Hyderabad

2. Chapter entitled I Have a Dreamby Martin Luther King from Inspiring Speeches and

Lives, Published by Maruthi Publications, Guntur

Unit VI

1. Chapter entitled Odds Against Us from Enjoying Everyday English, Published bySangam Books, Hyderabad

2. Chapter entitled Ask Not What Your Country can do for youby John F Kennedy from

Inspiring Speeches and Lives, Published by Maruthi Publications, Guntur

* Exercises from the lessons not prescribed shall also be used for classroom tasks.

Unit VII

Exercises on

Reading and Writing Skills

Reading Comprehension

Situational dialogues

Letter writingEssay writing

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Unit VIII

Practice Exercises on Remedial Grammar covering

Common errors in English, Subject-Verb agreement, Use of Articles and Prepositions,

Tense and aspect

Vocabulary development covering

Synonyms & Antonyms, one-word substitutes, prefixes & suffixes, Idioms & phrases, words

often confused.

REFERENCES:

1. Innovate with English: A Course in English for Engineering Students, edited by T

Samson, Foundation Books

2. English Grammar Practice, Raj N Bakshi, Orient Longman.

3. Effective English, edited by E Suresh Kumar, A RamaKrishna Rao, P Sreehari, Published

by Pearson

4. Handbook of English Grammar& Usage, Mark Lester and Larry Beason,

Tata Mc Graw Hill.

5. Spoken English, R.K. Bansal & JB Harrison, Orient Longman.

6. Technical Communication, Meenakshi Raman, Oxford University Press

7. Objective English Edgar Thorpe & Showick Thorpe, Pearson Education8. Grammar Games, Renuvolcuri Mario, Cambridge University Press.

9. Murphys English Grammar with CD, Murphy, Cambridge University Press.

10. Everyday Dialogues in English, Robert J. Dixson, Prentice Hall India Pvt Ltd.,

11. ABC of Common Errors Nigel D Turton, Mac Millan Publishers.

12. Basic Vocabulary Edgar Thorpe & Showick Thorpe, Pearson Education

13. Effective Technical Communication, M Ashraf Rizvi, Tata Mc Graw Hill.

2009-2010

14. An Interactive Grammar of Modern English, Shivendra K. Verma and Hemlatha

Nagarajan, Frank Bros & CO

15. A Communicative Grammar of English, Geoffrey Leech, Jan Svartvik, Pearson

Education

16. Enrich your English, Thakur K B P Sinha, Vijay Nicole Imprints Pvt Ltd.,17. A Grammar Book for You And I, C. Edward Good, MacMillan Publishers.

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Method of Evaluation

Theory:

1. Units 8

2. Unit wise assignments 8

3. Mid term exams 6(3 objective, 3 Descriptive)

4. Final examination 1 (Answer 5 out of 8)

5. Marks Internal 25,

External 75.

LABORATORY DETAILS

Evaluation Details:

1. Marks Max. Marks: 75

External: 50

Internal: 25

2. Marks External Examination (50m) Execution- 20, Written-20, Viva 10

3. Marks Internal Examination (25m) Day to day 10

Lab record- 5

Performance 5

Viva - 5

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Lesson Plan

Subject:ENGLISH

Unit Hours Details

1. 10 Unit I: 1.Heavens Gate from Enjoying Everyday English

2.Hargovind Khorana from Inspiring Speeches and Lives

2. 12 UNIT II 1.Sir C V Raman from Enjoying Everyday English

2. Sam Petroda from Inspiring Speeches and Lives

3. 9 UNIT III 1.The Connoisseur from Enjoying Everyday English

2.Mother Teresa from Inspiring Speeches and Lives

4. 5 UNIT IV 1.The Cuddalore Experience from Enjoying Everyday

English 2.Dr Amatya Kumar Sen Inspiring Speeches and Lives

5. 8 UNIT V 1. Bubbling Well Road from Enjoying Everyday English,

2 I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King from Inspiring Speeches

and Lives,

6 8 UNIT VI 1. Odds Against Us from Enjoying Everyday English,

2 Ask Not What Your Country can do for you by John F Kennedy

from Inspiring Speeches and Lives

7 7 UNIT VII : Exercises on-

Reading and Writing Skills

Reading Comprehension

Situational dialogues

Letter writing

Essay writing

8 6 UNIT VIIIPractice Exercises on Remedial Grammar covering -

Common errors in English, Subject-Verb agreement, Use of Articles

and Prepositions, Tense and aspect

Vocabulary development covering- Synonyms & Antonyms, one-word

substitutes, prefixes & suffixes, Idioms & phrases, words often

confused

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Course Status Paper(Target, Course Plan, objectives, Guidelines etc.)

1. Target:

1.1. Percentage Pass: __100%__

1.2. Percentage above 70% of marks: 60%

2. Course Plan:

(Please write how you intend to cover the contents: that is, coverage of units by

lectures, guest lectures, design exercises, solving numerical problems, demonstration

of models, model preparation, or by assignments etc.)

a. Lectures

b. Design Exercises

c. Demonstration Exercisesd. Model Preparation

e. Assignments

3. Objective:

To improve the language proficiency of the students in English with emphasis on

LSRW skills.

To equip the students to study academic subjects with greater facilitythrough the

theoretical and practical components of the English syllabus.


situations.

4. Method of Evaluation:

Continuous Assessment Examination:Yes / No Yes

Assignments:Yes / No- Yes

Questions in class room:Yes / No - Yes

Quiz as per University Norms:Yes / No

5. List out any new topic(s) or any innovation you would like to introduce in teaching

the subject in this semester:

1.Topics related to Life Histories of Great Personalities along with

Power Point Presentation.

Grammar Points useful for their professional career through OHPs.

6. Guidelines to study the subject:

Preparation of the subject extensively, improving vocabulary, structuring, syntax and

grammatically correct coherence of ideas.

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SESSION PLAN

Schedule of Instruction:

Expected date of completion of the course and remarks, if any:

Unit Number: 1 15-10-10








Remarks (if any):

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Schedule of Instruction

(LAB)

S. No Number

of

Hours

Subject Topics References

1. 3 Introduction to Phonetics A Text Book of Eng Phonetics by

T. Bala Subramanyan

2 3 Consonant Sounds ------do--------

3. 3 Vowel Sounds ------do--------

4. 3 Stress ------do--------

5. 3 Intonation ------do--------

6. 3 Role Play/ Situational Dialogues Every Day Dialogues in Eng. By

Robert J. Dixson

7. 3 ------do--------

8. 3 Presentation Skills Body Language by Dr. Shalini

Verma

9. 3 ------do--------

10. 3 Just a Minute Sessions Basic Comm. skills for Tech. by

Andra J. Rutherford

11. 3 ------do--------

12. 3 Description Effective Technical

Communication by Md. Ashraf

Rizvi

13. 3 ------do--------

14. 3 Information Transfer ------do--------

15. 3 ------do--------

16. 3 Debate ------do--------

17. 3 ------do--------

18. 3 Telephonic Skills ------do--------

19. 3 ------do--------

20. 3 Giving Directions ------do--------

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Schedule of Instruction

Unit I Objectives:

To enable students to develop their listening skill so that they may appreciate its role

in the LSRW skills approach to language and improve their pronunciation To enable the students to know about different geographical places and their

importance.

To inspire the students through the lives and speeches of great personalities.


situations.

To equip students with necessary training in listening so that can comprehend the

speech of people of different backgrounds and regions. Students should be given

practice in listening to the sounds of the language to be able to recognize them, to

distinguish between them to mark stress and recognize and use the right intonation in

sentences.

S. No Number

of Hours

Subject Topics Reference

1 2 Heavens Gate Enjoying Every Day

English

2 2 Paragraphs and descriptions Enjoying Every Day

English

3 1 Listening for sounds Text Book & Grammar

texts.

4 2 Greeting, taking leave & introducing Inspiring Speeches andlives.

5 1 Letter Writing do

6 1 E-mail writing Communication Skills

7 1 Memorandums

8 1 Homonyms, homophones, homographs

9 1 Memorandums

10 2 Hargobind Khorana Inspiring Speeches and

lives.

Unit II Objectives:

To make the students aware of great scientist and their contribution to the

science and technology.

To enable the students to acquire information regarding the founders of

telecommunication and its development.

To improve the students vocabulary and their writing skills through teaching

them work related correspondence.

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S. No Number

of Hours

Subject Topics Inspiring Speeches &

Lives Reference

1 2 C.V.Raman Enjoying Eveyday

English

2 1 Work-related correspondence -Do-

3 1 Listening for words Text Book & Grammar

Books

4 1 Making requests Inspiring Speeches &

Lives

5 1 Making naming words specific Text Book

6 1 Collocations Engineering English

7 1 Sam Pitroda Inspiring Speeches &

Lives

8 1 Synonyms & Antonyms -Do-

9 1 Idioms and phrases -Do-

10 1 Precis Writing Inspiring Speeches &

Lives

Unit III Objectives:

To make the students learn positive attitudes through the humorous story the

connoisseur.

To learn about the life history of great veteran Mother Teresa and her

contributions to the socially deprived people.

To improve the speaking skills of the students through conversations, stressand accent.

S. No Number

of Hours


1 1 The Connoisseur Enjoying every day

English

2 1 Summarizing - Do-

3 1 Apologizing &Inviting - Do-

4 1 Collocations - Do-

5 1 Making Naming words specific - Do-

6 1 Listening for word stress - Do-

7 1 Mother Teresa Inspiring Speeches &

Lives

Unit IV Objectives:

To make the students aware of natural disasters and the measures to be taken

to prevent them. To inculcate the quality of helping nature among the studentsin times of trouble.

To enable the students to be inspired by the lives of Noble Laureates like

Amartya Kumar Sen.

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To develop the writing skills of students through teaching official and project

reports.

S. No Number

of Hours


1 1 The Cuddalore Experience Enjoying every day

English

2 1 Official Reports - Do-

3 1 Listening for theme - Do-

4 1 Congratulations, condolences & making

requests

- Do-

5 1 Amartya kumar Sen Inspiring Speeches &

Lives

6 1 Prcis Writing - Do-

Unit V Objectives:

To develop awareness in the students about the significance of silent reading

and comprehension through humorous lessons like Bubbling Well Road.

To enable the students learn to face the interviews and strategies to be adopted

while answering the questions.

To make students get inspiration from the speeches of great people like John

F. Kennedy

S. No Number

of Hours


1 1 Bubbling Well Road Enjoying every day

English

2 1 Note making -Do-

3 1 Taking Notes -Do-

4 1 Inter View Skills -Do-

5 1 Adverbials and Modals -Do-

6 1 Idioms -Do-

7 1 John F.Kennedy Inspiring Speeches &

Lives

Unit VI Objectives:

To create awareness among the students regarding films, their making and the

odds involved in making a film.

To teach the students presentation skills which help them in their future

careers and teaching them technical vocabulary.

To make the students get inspired from the speech of Martin Luther King.

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S. No Number

of Hours


1 1 The Odds Against us Enjoying every day

English

2 1 Announcements & Directions -Do-

3 1 Making Presentations -Do-

4 1 Technical Vocabulary -Do-

5 1 Martin Luther King Inspiring speeches &

Lives

Unit VII Objectives:

To develop the ability of students to guess the meanings of words from context and

grasp the overall message of the text, draw inferences etc.

skimming the text

Understanding the gist of an argument

identifying the topic sentence

Inferring lexical and contextual meaning

Understanding discourse features

Recognizing coherence/sequencing of sentences

To develop an awareness in the students about writing as an exact and formal skill.

S. No Number

of Hours


1 1 Reading & Writing skills Murphys EnglishGrammar

2 1 Reading Comprehension -D0-

3 1 Situational Dialogues Every day Dialogues in

English

4 1 Letter Writing Murphys English

Grammar

5 1 Essay Writing -Do-

Unit VIII Objectives:

To equip them with the components of different forms of writing, beginning with the

lower order ones.

Writing sentences

Use of appropriate vocabulary

Paragraph writing

Coherence and cohesiveness

Narration / description

Note Making

Formal and informal letter writing

Editing a passage

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S. No Number

of Hours


1 1 Common Errors in English Murphys English

Grammar

2 1 Tense and Aspect -Do-

3 1 Subject- verb agreement -Do-

4 1 Articles & Prepositions -Do-

5 1 Synonyms & Antonyms Strength Your English

6 1 Prefixes & Suffixes -Do-

7 1 Idioms & Phrases -Do-

8 1 One Word Substitutes -Do-

9 1 Words often Confused -Do-

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Unit-wise Assignments

Assignment of unit: 1

Q 1: What animals and trees did the writer find in the Nubra Valley? How did the writersobservations match descriptions he had read of the way people live in Ladakh?

Q 2:What did the writer discover to his surprise on reaching Ladakh, which he had imagined

to had no contact with other parts of the world/

Q 3: What was the role of Dr.Gordon M.Shrum of British Columbia in Khoaranas career?

Q 4: What were khoranas achievement s during 1960s and 1970s?


Q 1: What was the day when Raman walked into the Indian Association for the Cultivation of

Science a historic moment? Out line the subject of the first research Raman conducted in the

IACS?

Q 2: What discovery did Raman make during his voyage across the Mediterranean and how

did it prove to be important?

Q 3: How did Rajiv Gandhi providePitroda the right opportunity? What were the rural

automatic exchanges equipped with?

Q 4: How according to Pitroda can IT impact the nation? What was his idea of an electronicwallet?


Q 1: What caused Miss.Krishna stay at the writers home to come to an end?

Q 2: How did Mayas sister first behave with the writer and what could have been the reason

for the change in her attitude later?

Q 3: When did Agnes became Teresa? What incidents distrurbed Teresa while she was

teaching in Calcutta?

Q 4: When did Teresa start the missionaries of charity and what was its primary objective?

Q 5: In which year did Teresa step down as Head of missionaries of charity? What proof

made the authorities beatify mother Teresa?


Q 1: What steps did the administration take to ensure that portable water was available? What

were the means used to establish contact between the control rooms and the field staff?

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Q 2: After reading the account, do you think Cuddalores district administration did a

commendable job? Give reasons for your answer?

Q 3: When did form and develop his educational attitude and orientation? What aspect of the

Bengal famine struck Amartya?

Q 4: When did Amartys receive the Nobel Prize for Economics and what is he known as in

India?

Q 5: How did Amartya the pure theory of social choice to more practical problems?


Q 1: What did the writer see when he pushed his way through a think clump of grass? What

was the priests reaction when the writer suddenly appears at his hut?

Q 2: What was the secret promise the writer made to himself before he left the village?

Q 3: Explain the statement the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of

the state, but from the hand of God?

Q 4: Expand the statement if a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot

save the few who are rich?


Q 1: According to Satyajit Ray, what are the three factors that should guide a director when

he or she chooses a story for a film?

Q 2: What problems do Indian Directors face when they make slightly modified versions of

classics and films based on political themes?

Q 3: What is the background of the speech of Martin Luther King?

Q 4: What was the discrimination meted out to the blacks, according to the speaker?


Q 1: Write a letter to the sales manager of Science Tech.Publications in Mumbai asking for

their catalogue and enquiring about the possibility of being their distributor for the southern

Zone?

Q 2: Write a short dialogue for the following situation- Harsh has been invited to a wedding

reception at the far end of a city. He calls the brides father, Mr.Gurucharan Singh to requesthim for directions to the venue?

Q 3: Write a paragraph of five or six sentences on two of the following topics

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a. Wild Life Conservation b. A meaningful education c. An exciting holiday.

Q 4: Write an essay on Terrorism: Irrational and inhumane.


Q 1: Write synonyms for the following words: lucid, broad, elementary, meticulous, futile,aberration, bias, consolation, folly, heap, harbinger, jargon, lust, lamentaion, miracle, peace,

perplexity, rebuke, synopsis

Q 2: Write antonyms for the following words: bravery, confession, consent, definite, famous,

exotic, generous, restore, sensation, tragedy, victory, union, vice,wisdom,yielding,rude,

Q 3: Idioms: ABC, Beat about the bush, apple of the eye, a lame excuse, a lions share, heart

and soul, to make both ends meet, ones in a blue moon, cold blooded murder, bag and

baggage, a black sheep, at a stones throw, at the eleventh hour

Q 4 Words often confused: access-excess, advice-advise, affect-effect, angle-angel, ascent-

assent, altar-alter, confirm-conform, check-cheque, complement-compliment, command-

commend, envelop- envelope, fair-fare.

Q 5: One-word Substitutes: information of death given in newspapers with a brief history,

institution where persons suffering from tuberculosis are given treatment, knowledge of

everything, of the same kind or nature, a building where dead bodies are kept before burial,

custom of having more than one wife at the same time.

Q 6: Prefixes: intro/intra, mono, bi, poly, quasi, super, mega, meta, son, spec. Suffixes: able,

ceed, yze, age, ful, ian, ism, ion, ship, dom, hood, ist, less.

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Internal Quiz Marks

Best and the worst Internal Marks Details:

S.No. Quiz Test Maximum Marks

Best Marks Worst Marks Remarks

1 Quiz Test 1 10 9 6

2 Quiz Test 210

10 7

3 Quiz Test 310

09 5

4 Quiz Test 410

08 5

5 Quiz Test 5 10 10 4

6 Quiz Test 6 10 10 4

7 Quiz Test 7 10 09 3

8 Quiz Test 8 10 09 5

* indicate if any remedial tests were conducted, if any.

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Seminar Topics

1. Express your views and opinions on Ragging.

2. Reservations in educational institutions.

3. Corruption is a necessary evil to succeed in ones life.

4. Protection of environment.

5. Importance of literacy.

6. Natural Calamities.

7. Current burning news.

8. Global warning.

9. Women security in the present day society.

10. Child labor.

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. The question papers in respect of quiz test 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this subject

should be included in the course file.

2. Model question paper which you have distributed to the students in the

beginning of the semester for this subject should be included in the course file.

3. The list of seminar topics you have assigned, if any may also be included here.

4. The J. N. T. University end examination question paper for this subject must

be included in the course file.

5. A record of the best and worst marks achieved by the students in every quiz

tests must be maintained properly.

6. A detailed / brief course material / lecture notes if prepared may be submitted

in the HODs office.

7. Xerox copies of at least 5 answer sheets, after duly signed by the student on

verification of the evaluated answer script.

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