Academic Calendar
How the academic year is laid out — admission, semesters, examinations and results.
A year that has to fit around two harvests.
The academic year runs on two semesters. Each carries its own registration window, teaching weeks, internal assessments, practical and field work, and an end-semester examination, followed by result publication and the registration window for the semester after it.
An agricultural calendar cannot be set on paper alone. Field practicals, farm work and internships are tied to the sowing and harvest windows of the Terai's cropping seasons, so the teaching weeks of a semester are placed to leave those windows open rather than to divide the year into two equal halves.
The dated calendar for each session — admission notice, entrance date, commencement of classes, examination windows, result dates and the university's holiday list — is approved by the Academic Council and published as a notice. The dates in a published notice are the authoritative ones; the structure described here is what those dates fill in.
Admission window
Admission notice, entrance examination and enrolment for the first semester.
Teaching weeks
Classes, laboratory practicals and the internal assessments within each semester.
Field and farm windows
Practical work placed against the sowing and harvest seasons, not against the timetable.
Examinations and results
End-semester examination windows and the result dates that follow them.
The shape of a semester
- 01Registration and course enrolment
- 02Teaching weeks, with laboratory and field practicals
- 03Internal assessment — assignments, tests and practical records
- 04Form filling for the end-semester examination
- 05End-semester examination and evaluation
- 06Result publication, then re-totalling and supplementary windows