CSA-III
Students who have passed or have appeared for the CSA1 at least once and have obtained a minimum of 80% attendance at the group work, field visits, specified lectures and seminars of Community Stream Stage III and have completed all work related to the Community Attachment, Family Attachment and the Research Project and submitted the relevant reports on time will be eligible to appear for CSA-III. Those candidates who do not have the required attendance at the Community and Family Attachment Programmes will have to undertake an individual field based assignment specified by the Community Stream, and on its successful completion, will be allowed to appear at the CSA-III with the same batch of candidates and this will be considered as a second attempt.
Candidates who obtain a minimum of 50% marks at the CSA-III will be considered as having passed CSA-III.
For any candidate who passes CSA-III in an attempt other than the candidate’s first attempt, the maximum mark carried would be 50% for that assessment, irrespective of the marks the candidate has obtained.
The reports of the Community Attachment, Family Attachment, and the Research Project should be submitted on or before the date specified by the Community Stream. One to seven days delay in submission will be subjected to a 10% reduction of the marks allocated for the specific Report. Reports submitted after seven days will not be accepted.
Those who fail (less than 50% marks) the CSA-III will have to appear for the Repeat CSA-III. In the Repeat CSA-III, students are required to carry out special assignment/s relevant to the components they have scored less than 50% (Community Attachment and/or the Family Attachment). Those who fail in the Research Report will have to make the necessary modifications/corrections and resubmit the Research Project Report. The special assignments for the Repeat CSA-III will be one or more of the following.
For failures of the Community Attachment the special assignment will be a field-based assignment.
For failures of the Family Attachment the special assignment will be a field-based assignment
Those candidates who failed CSA-III (less than 50% marks) shall be deemed to have passed the CSA-III when they appear for a Repeat CSA-III examination subsequently and pass it (minimum pass mark 50%).
In the repeat CSA III, students are required to carry out special assignment/s relevant to the component (Community Attachment / the Family Attachment / Research Project) in which they have scored less than 50%.
The special Assignments for the repeat CSA-III will be one or more of the following:
-Community Attachment (field-based)
-Family Attachment (field-based)
-Research Project – (making modifications / corrections specified by the examiner/s and re-submission of the Research Report)
