ELECTIVE ALLOCATION - 2012

ALLOCATION OF BIDDING POINTS Non-STEX Students: Every student would be given 1000 points to bid for the electives. STEX Students: The number of points in the first round of Stage 1 would be 700. From 2 nd round of Stage 1, the number of bid points would be decided as MAX (700, (1000 Average of points bid in Term 5 by Non-STEX students)). Note: Students who participated in the voting for major Constitutional amendments would be allotted 25 additional bidding points. Students who voted in the senior Council would be given additional 25 points. Students who participated in the demand estimation exercise would be allocated 25 more points as promised.

IMPORTANT POINTS ABOUT PROCESS

1. While deciding the allocation for a particular student, the following will be the rules applied a. The first criterion for allocation of a particular course is the concentration in the relevant functional area. The concentration is the total number of elective credits taken by the student in the functional area. For the purpose of elective allocation, a concentration of 5 and more would be considered as 100% concentration (these students are categorized under BAND 1) in all functional areas other than Business Environment and Strategy (where concentration of 4 or more would be considered BAND 1). Also, concentration of 4 and less (3 or less for Business Environment and Strategy) would be considered same (these students are categorized under BAND 0). b. If the concentration in the functional area is equal between any two students, the bidding points for the course, as provided by the student, will be used as the second criterion. c. In case of a clash even after the above two rules have been applied, the CGPA of the student will be used to determine the allocation. 2. Course of Independent Study (CIS)/ Dissertation a. You are allowed to take maximum of two CIS courses in term V and VI (such that not more than one course is taken in term V) in lieu of the electives offered. (please refer the PGP manual for details)

b. You can drop a subject in any area subject to the following conditions i. No subject gets dropped because the number of PGP students in that subject goes below 20. ii. No section gets dropped because the number of PGP students goes below 20. iii. You cannot drop a subject that reduces your concentration in the area to a level that is below the cutoff for any subject in the concerned area. c. Students opting for CIS will have to select 15 credits in the elective allocation system. The decision of which subject to drop is taken in term IV. Please plan your electives accordingly. 3. Compulsory course (Strategic Management-II) would not count towards the four courses required for a concentration in the area. 4. CIS/Dissertation would not count towards the number of courses required for a concentration area. 5. Workshops would not count towards concentration in an area. 6. Additional Credits/ non credits courses a. You are allowed to take a maximum of two additional credits over and above 15.5 credits (15 electives and 0.5 compulsory). b. The allocation of these credits will be done manually after the elective allocation round.

GUIDELINES FOR CHOOSING ELECTIVES

Information you will have to bear in mind while making your choice: a. A PGP student must take at least 15 elective course credits across the three terms such that: i. One does not take less than 5 or more than 6 elective credits in term IV and Term ii. One does not take less than 3 or more than 5 elective credits in term VI b. An ABM student needs to pick at least 8.5 elective course credits of which only 1 credit can be through a PGP elective. The term wise split would be: i. One does not take less than 1.5 or more than 3 elective credits in term IV ii. One does not take less than 5 or more than 6 elective credits in term V iii. One does not take more than 2 elective credits in term VI c. For students who have been assigned an institute as per STEX 2nd list: i. Students need to choose a minimum of 9 credits and a maximum of 10.5 credits from the courses offered in Term IV and Term VI.

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Students need to choose a minimum of 3 elective credits in a functional area to gain BAND advantage. These students are expected to choose the remaining number of credits in their foreign university so as to complete their specialization in the area.

d. Some courses have sections running in 2 terms. In such cases please note that a student can enroll in only one of the two terms. The following is the list of such courses: i. Managing Financial Institutions either in term IV or in term V ii. International Finance either in term IV or in term VI iii. Sales and Distribution either in term IV or in term V iv. Promotional Strategy either in term IV or in term V v. Services Marketing either in Term V or Term VI e. Students may enroll either for Investment Management in term IV or Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management in term V. f. All the ABM elective courses except Agribusiness Finance (SKp, Term V) are open for PGP Students as well.

g. Marketing Models in Agribusiness cannot be taken by students registering for Advanced Marketing Research. h. Consumer Behaviour for Food Products and Services cannot be taken by students who take Consumer Behaviour offered by Marketing Area. i. In Term VI, a student can choose a maximum of 2 workshops.

PROCESS
FINAL Elective Allocation Round (20th March 2012, 10pm ) You will be required to login using your PGP Id and email password at Cerberus (http://192.168.1.188/cerberus/) Each STAGE has multiple ROUNDS and permanent allocation of electives is made after every stage. RULES: The final process would consist of 2 stages. Stage 1 would have 4 + X rounds, maximum of 6 rounds and Stage 2 would have 3 rounds. 4 rounds would definitely happen in Stage 1. After the 4th round a chit would be picked whether or not to continue with the 5th round or to freeze Stage 1 and make the allocations. If the chit

says Continue, we would have the 5th round, else the 4th round would be the last round of the Stage 1 and allocations of the electives would be made. The same would be repeated for the 5th round and the process would continue till we reach the 6th round. We would pick the chit in the library (ground floor) and we request the CRs to be present there. Stage 2 would happen as it was done previously and all the 3 rounds would be played. STAGE 1 Round 1: You can login to the system (http://192.168.1.188/cerberus/) once it has been enabled to check the status of your selections. In this round, you will have to bid for only 15 or 15.5 elective credits of your choice. This round will run for 30 minutes, during which you can select the electives and bid for them. Once the 30 minute timeline is over, the system will no longer accept your inputs/changes. Round 2: This round will begin approx. 5 minutes after the first round is complete. In this round the cut off points for all the electives based on the first round would be displayed. Example: If an elective has 120 seats, the details of the 120th candidates bid would be displayed on the screen, so that you can change accordingly. You can make changes to your choices based on these results. A maximum of 6 elective changes are allowed. The round will last for 30 minutes. Subsequent Rounds: Number of iterations: 4 In the subsequent iterations, you will be allowed to change electives or change your bid points. Max Change in electives 5 changes 4 changes 3 change 3 change Round Time 20 minutes 20 minutes 20 minutes 20 minutes

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STAGE 2 In this stage the students would bid with their left over points.

Round 1: You can login to the system (http://192.168.1.188/cerberus/) once it has been enabled to check the status of your selections. This round will run for 20 minutes, during which you can select the electives and bid for them. Once the 20 minute timeline is over, the system will no longer accept your inputs/changes. Round 2: This round will begin approx. 5 minutes after the first round is complete. In this round the minimum points required to get an elective based on the previous round would be displayed. Example: If an elective has 120 seats available, the 120th bid would be displayed on the screen, so that you can bid accordingly. You can make changes to your choices based on these results. Max elective changes allowed are 4. The round will last for 20 minutes. Subsequent Rounds: Number of iterations: 1 In the subsequent iterations, you will be allowed to add or delete electives or change your bid points. Max Change in electives Round Time In round 3 : 3 changes 20 minutes There would be a gap of approx. 5 minutes between the rounds. At the end of round 3, the system will stop. The elective choices would be frozen at this point. All the successful bidders would be allocated the electives. If anyone is still unable to get all the required 15 credits, allocation will be done manually. The start of every round will be conveyed to the batch by mail.

Technical Specifications for Elective Allocation process 2012

1. Browsers Supported: a. Mozilla Firefox b. Google Chrome Note: Internet Explorer and Safari Browsers are not supported. We will not entertain any requests for issues related to IE and Safari browsers. 2. Javascript should be enabled in your browser. a. To enable Javascript on Firefox, Please visit: i. http://support.mozilla.com/en-US/kb/JavaScript b. Javascript is enabled by default on Google Chrome. 3. Please do not press Back button at any time during your bidding process. We are not responsible for any errors that creep due to this issue. 4. You need to be connected to the network while submitting the bids. You are advised to come to the CC or the library if you have any network issues in your hostel. 5. Once you submit, you cannot change the bids for that round. 6. Please refresh your browser once after you re-login for bidding for subsequent rounds, else an error message will come at the re-login stage. This message goes once you refresh the browser. 7. In case of any queries please contact any member of Team Synapse.

Elective Allocation 2012 Instructions for using the system

Functionalities Left hand side List (LHS) The complete list of Courses would be displayed. This would remain permanently. The Courses which have already been selected would be marked red. Right hand side List (RHS) This list contains the Courses you have ranked. All those which are listed here would be marked red in LHS.

Adding Course(s) Use '+' in LHS to add the selected Course(s) Deleting Course(s) Use 'X' in RHS to delete the selected Course(s)