The Semester end examination schedule and examination centre shall be informed through the admit card and also through website. Student will have to produce the identity card and admit card to appear in the semester end examination at the examination centre. The examination pattern will be available in the program guide provided to the students. Examinations will be conducted after each Semester four times a year in February, May, August & November on Saturdays and Sundays. There will be two examinations of three hour duration in two sessions in a day. An examination fee of Rs. 200/- for each paper has to be remitted, by DD drawn in favour of “National Institute of Management Education & Research”, payable at Bangalore, when intimated. Students who fail in a paper(s) must appear for the failed paper(s), in the subsequent examination by remitting an amount of Rs. 200/- for each paper along with re-sitting application, within the due date specified by the Institute.

ASSIGNMENTS
Assignments are an integral component of distance education. The programme guide supplied to the students
will contain the assignments to be submitted by the students. Assignments serve the purpose of evaluation of the student's performance. Marks of each Assignment will be considered while issuing the Mark List and the Pass Certificate.

CASE STUDY PROJECT
Normally Case Study opportunities are available only for students of business schools who pursue the Management Degree on full time basis. Such an opportunity is now being created by NIMER even for the students of Distance Learning Programs so that they also have the benefit of Case Study experience like the students of fulltime programs.

The effectiveness of any educational program lies in its application to the business and industry. Our Case Study Project plays the crucial part in providing our students with an opportunity to perform relevant work in their chosen industries. An exclusive feature of NIMER is its very close contacts with leading Indian Corporate houses and Multinationals.

Each student shall be required to prepare on the basis of investigations carried out by him in a business or industrial organization, Case study project report on possible solutions for a typical problem of current interest in the area of Management. The report should demonstrate the capability of the student for some creative potential and original approach to solve the practical problems in to-day's business or industry. The Case study project report should include field studies, surveys, interpretation. Planning and design of improved integrated management systems, presented in a comprehensive manner with recommendations for solution based on scientifically worked out data

A Case Study Project will be sent to students at the end of the Second semester for one year Executive MBA and after the Second and Fourth semesters for the two year MBA study, to be solved as directed and returned to the Institute for valuation two weeks before the examination.

RESULT PUBLICATION
Examination results will be published on the website within 45 days from the last date of examination and Mark card will be sent to the students directly by Courier.

ERUDITE VALUE
Successful candidates are entitled to use the suffix MBA after their names.

EVALUATION AND GRADING
Evaluation are conceived, developed and administrated on a rigorous and fair basis to bring out the best
students and prepare them for challenging careers. A student performance is based on:

In each subject, a student should secure at least 35% marks in Assignments evaluation and 35% marks in the Semester end examination, and an average of 40% to be declared pass.

Based on the students performance the following grading system will be adopted: