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SRM semester 1: pass the courses that can actually stop you.

Unofficial student guide. Not affiliated with SRM Institute of Science and Technology. Numbers are estimates from the rules this site's calculators implement. The regulation PDF is the 2021 B.Tech / integrated M.Tech regulation.

Semester 1 is where attendance and SGPA get tangled, because both are new and both are counted per course. Calculus, chemistry, programming, physics or biology, English, the workshop: each one has its own held classes and its own credits. A student who protects a 4-credit mathematics course and treats a 1-credit course as optional has understood the SGPA weights. A student who does that and then falls under 75% in the 1-credit course has not understood debarment. The small course can still keep you out of its own exam. The large course can still move the semester average by twice as much per grade step.

The pass plan that fits in one evening is three lists. List one is every subject where attendance is under 80% today, because 80% is not the rule, it is the buffer before 75% becomes a weekly emergency. List two is every subject of 3 or more credits where your current internal mark makes an A or better need an end-sem score you have never scored. List three is the single subject you will revise tomorrow. The semester 1 subject map is the list of names. This page is the order of operations.

Do not wait for the model exam to add the credits into the SGPA box below. Put the credits from the registration and the grade you are realistically going to earn, including a C or a fail if that is the honest forecast. A fantasy row of all O grades teaches you nothing about the semester you are in. An honest row tells you whether one recovered B+ in calculus is the difference between 7.4 and 7.8. First-year CGPA is sticky: those credits sit in the denominator until you graduate.

A first-year credit picture you can replace

Suppose semester 1 is registered as 4-credit calculus at a realistic A (8), 4-credit programming at A+ (9), 3-credit chemistry at B+ (7), 3-credit physics at A (8), 3-credit English at A (8), and 4 credits of workshop and mandatory courses at B (6). Points: 32 + 36 + 21 + 24 + 24 + 24 = 161. Credits: 21. SGPA: 161 ÷ 21 = 7.67. Nothing in that row is a disaster. Nothing in it is an O. The semester is a 7.67, and it will still be inside the CGPA in semester 8.

Move calculus from A to B+: points fall by 4, to 157, SGPA 7.48. Move it from A to O: points rise by 8, to 169, SGPA 8.05. The same course is a 0.57 swing across three letters. That is why the pass plan puts high-credit courses on list two even when attendance is fine. The calculus checklist and the programming checklist are the unit lists. They are not notes files.

Attendance still comes first in calendar time, because a debarred exam scores like a subject you did not sit, and the credits remain. Check the portal on Sunday. If any subject is under 80%, that subject is tomorrow's list one, even if it is 1 credit. Then spend the longer block on the high-credit course whose end-sem target is still inside 100. The 75% guide and the 60/40 guide are the two calculations. This page is only the order.

Worked why semester 1 does not fade

Semester 1 is 21 credits at SGPA 7.67. The honest forecast from the mix above, not an all-O sketch. Multiply credits by SGPA: 21 × 7.67 = 161.07 grade points. After this semester the running total is 161.07 grade points over 21 credits, so the CGPA so far is 161.07 ÷ 21 = 7.67. A later semester cannot rewrite this block. It can only add its own credits and its own points on top.

Semester 2 is 23 credits at SGPA 8.00. A steadier second semester. 23 × 8.00 = 184 points added to 161.10 from semester 1 if you keep 7.67 on 21 credits. Multiply credits by SGPA: 23 × 8.00 = 184.00 grade points. After this semester the running total is 345.07 grade points over 44 credits, so the CGPA so far is 345.07 ÷ 44 = 7.84. A later semester cannot rewrite this block. It can only add its own credits and its own points on top.

The final line of this example is 345.07 ÷ 44 = 7.84. That is the CGPA a placement form should show if these semester credits and SGPAs are exactly what the grade card says. If your card disagrees, the card wins: one of the credit counts or one of the SGPAs in the sum is different from this example.

SGPA calculator on this page

Grade points used here: O = 10, A+ = 9, A = 8, B+ = 7, B = 6, C = 5, F / Ab / I = 0. Credits are whole numbers from 1 to 10. The result is credit-weighted and stays in this browser.

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The rows above are the free calculator. A one-time export of an eight-semester sheet is listed on pricing at $19. You do not need that export to use the calculator.

Questions this page answers

What should a semester 1 student calculate first?

Attendance under 80% in any subject, then the end-sem target for any course of 3 or more credits, then one subject to revise next.

Does a 1-credit course matter?

It can debar you from its own exam if attendance falls under 75%. It moves SGPA less than a 4-credit course for the same grade step.

Where is the semester 1 subject list?

On the semester 1 page, which links each subject that has a checklist.