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The Director of Institution (PGS), however, has the discretion of selecting the External Examiner from outside the panel of specialists suggested.
The External Examiner shall send the report and the thesis to the Director of Instruction (PGS). An oral examination will be held by the Advisory Committee after the thesis is recommended by the External Examiner for consideration. At the time of final viva voce examination, the students shall present the salient features of the research work through audio-visual aids and defend the thesis. Further, a candidate for Master's degree should prepare at least one research paper fit for publication in a referred journal based on the thesis work and submit the same to the Major Advisor at the time of final viva voce examination.
The Chairperson shall send the recommendations of the Advisory Committee to the Director of Instruction (PGS) through the Head of the Department. On the unanimous recommendation of the Committee, the degree shall be awarded. If the external examiner does not recommend the thesis for acceptance, the Director, of Instruction (PGS) may refer the thesis for scrutiny and independent judgment to a second External Examiner chosen and nominated by the Dean. If the second Examiner recommends the thesis for acceptance, this recommendation shall be accepted.
If the opinion of the second Examiner is also negative, the degree shall not be awarded. In such cases, the student shall have the option to continue the work, rewrite the thesis and submit it once again after a lapse of at least one semester. If it is not accepted the third time also, the thesis cannot be resubmitted".

11. According to the extracted regulations, the student has to submit the thesis which shall be examined by the Advisory Committee and evaluated by an External Examiner. The report and the thesis will be sent to the Director of Instructions on the basis of which a oral examination will be held by the Advisory Committee called as viva voce examination. The result of this viva voce examination will be sent to the Director of Instructions who on the recommendation of the Committee shall award a degree. The awarding of the degree and declarations of the result of the oral examination are two different events. The awarding of the degree, will take place at a later date though the results of the examination may be available earlier. The evaluation or awarding of marks is also different from other known normal methods which is done by awarding what is called as a 'Grade Point' which has been defined by Regulation 2.74 as a measure of quality of work done in a course to meet the requirement in a semester which is computed by dividing the percentage of marks obtained in a course by 10. It shall be expressed on a 10 point scale up to a second decimal place. A grade point of six and above shall be considered as successful completion of thesis, as per Regulations 12, 12.1.2 and 12.1.3 which reads:

A student who obtains 'F or 'SA' grade in any of the courses of study shall either repeat the course when it is offered again or may register for a new course if it is not a core/compulsory course, on the recommendation of the Advisory Committee and approved by the Director of Instruction (PGS)".

12. Reverting to the facts, the University has made available the entire records. The 2nd respondent had as on 9-9-2002 submitted his thesis as per the requirement of Regulation 17.1.1. extracted above on the subject "Phosphate sorption - Desorption Characteristics in Acid Soils of Karnataka" and attended the viva held on the same day. On the same day, the Committee had staged that his performance was rated as good and recommended for approval of thesis. On 1-10-2002, the Grade Certificate was issued awarding 10 grade points to the said student. It is on this basis, the provisional degree was declared on 4-1-2002.