GNDU Syllabus for UG and PG Courses

How to find your GNDU syllabus

1. On the university website, look for the syllabus link, which sits under the examination or academic menu.
2. Choose the session that matches your batch, not the current calendar session. A student who joined two years ago follows the syllabus of the session of admission unless the university notifies a change.
3. Pick the faculty (Arts and Social Sciences, Economics and Business, Sciences, Engineering and Technology, Languages and so on), then the course and the semester.
4. Open the file and check the scheme page first: it lists every paper, its code, its credits or marks and the duration of the written exam.

The four-year UG structure under NEP

The university's NEP templates first applied to BA (Honours) and BSc (Honours), and were extended a session later to BCom (Honours) and BBA (Honours). The main building blocks are listed below.

The minimum credits for a three-year BA are 137, rising to 179 for the four-year honours degree; science programmes need more because of practical work.

Punjabi and other compulsory papers

Every UG student takes a Punjabi related paper in each of the first six semesters, but which one depends on your background:

• Punjab domiciles who studied Punjabi up to Class 10 or 12 take Punjabi (Compulsory).
• Students who did not study Punjabi at school, including Punjab domiciles educated outside the state, take Basic Punjabi.
• Students from outside Punjab may take Basic Punjabi or Punjab History and Culture instead.

The value added courses on drug abuse, the environment and human rights are short papers spread across the first three years. Check your own scheme for whether their marks count towards your aggregate, since older schemes treated some of them as qualifying only.

Example: what a BCom semester looks like

To show how a scheme reads, here is the first semester of the recent BCom file.

Later semesters add papers such as Corporate Accounting, Company Law, GST, Cost Accounting, Management Accounting and Direct Tax Law. In the fourth year you pick a specialisation group: Accounting and Finance, Marketing, or Human Resource Management. Theory papers in this scheme have three-hour written exams.

Reading the units inside a paper

Each paper is split into sections or units, and many files print instructions for the paper setter that say how questions are spread across them. A common layout is a compulsory short-answer question on the whole syllabus plus long questions from every section, with internal choice, but read the instructions in your own file because they differ by paper. Knowing this pattern matters more than reading every line: if each section is guaranteed a question, you cannot safely skip any section.

Preparing for semester exams with the syllabus

• Start with the scheme: note which papers carry practicals or internal marks, since those need work all semester, not only before the exam.
• Match units to past papers: the university's previous question papers show how each unit is usually examined; keep the syllabus beside them while practising.
• Use the suggested readings: the reading list at the end of each paper is set by the board of studies and reflects what examiners expect.
• Watch the compulsory papers: a weak Punjabi or English paper can hold back your result even if your main subjects go well.

Admission tests and other GNDU syllabus queries

Admission to campus programmes has used a mix of national tests, the university's own entrance tests for some courses and merit in the qualifying exam. Where a national test is used, its syllabus is the one to follow, such as the CUET syllabus for undergraduate entry. For other paths after graduation in Punjab, look at the PSTET syllabus for teaching, or browse the entrance exams section. Check the admission prospectus of your year for the exact route into your course.