The council of institute has decided to conduct optical mark recognition (OMR) based examination (objective type multiple choice question ) for the foundation programme under new syllabus w.e.f. december, 2010 examination. The council further decided that the students pursuing foundation programme under the existing syllabus would be given two attempts to complete the foundation programme. the students under the existing syllabus may exercise their option to switch/change over to new syllabus wherein no exemption will be available against their perfomance in previous session(s) of examination under existing syllabus. further, the last examination for the foundation programme under the exsiting syllabus would be held in june , 2013 and from december, 2013 session onwards all students under the exsiting syllabus will automatically over to OMR based examination without any examption.