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Where every fact came from
Checked 23 September 2026Nothing on this site is meant to be taken on trust. Everything below is either an official document, something I read myself and say so, or clearly marked as opinion. Where the official record and this site ever disagree, the official record wins — tell me and I will fix the page.
The most important caveat on this site
As of 23 September 2026, the September 2026 grading document had not been published. Every formula, eligibility rule and bonus structure on Basecamp is taken from the May 2026 document. Terms do change rules — GAA going to zero is proof of that. Read your course's grading page in week 1 and trust it over this site.
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Official
Primary documents, all opened and read| Fact on the site | Source |
|---|---|
| The eight courses, their codes, 4 credits each, 32 credits total; up to 4 courses per term by CCC; all eight required before any Diploma course | study.iitm.ac.in/ds/academics.html |
| Quiz 1 covers weeks 1–4, Quiz 2 covers weeks 1–8 | Same page |
| Every week-by-week syllabus, quoted verbatim; instructors and their affiliations; prescribed books and downloadable volumes; requisites | The eight course pages: study.iitm.ac.in/ds/course_pages/<CODE>.html for BSMA1001, BSMA1002, BSCS1001, BSHS1001, BSMA1003, BSMA1004, BSCS1002, BSHS1002 |
| GAA weightage for Foundation is 0, with 10 marks of quiz and end-term questions drawn from the assignments | May 2026 grading document, "MAJOR CHANGE THIS TIME" |
| The standard formula T = max(0.6F + 0.3·max(Qz1,Qz2), 0.45F + 0.25Qz1 + 0.3Qz2) for Maths 1, English 1, CT, Stats 1, Maths 2, English 2, Stats 2 | Grading document, the eight per-course sections |
| Python's formula T = 0.15Qz1 + 0.4F + 0.25·max(PE1,PE2) + 0.2·min(PE1,PE2), no Quiz 2, and the grade table (U / I_OP / I_BOTH / I) | Grading document, "Intro to python programming" |
| Python eligibility: SCT mandatory; OPPE 1 needs A1–A4 each ≥ 40; OPPE 2 needs A5–A8 each ≥ 40 plus the best-5-of-7 gate; one OPPE ≥ 40 for a grade; OPPE 1 syllabus weeks 1–5, OPPE 2 weeks 1–8 | Same section |
| Using an LLM on a programming assignment is plagiarism and an honour-code violation | Grading document, "Academic policies", quoted on the Python page |
| End-term eligibility: best 5 of 8 (first 7 weekly assignments + Mock Quiz 1) ≥ 40 and attendance at one quiz; "Mock Quiz 1 scores will be reflected in your dashboard as Mock Assignment" | Grading document, per-course sections (updated 15.07.2026) |
| English 1 and English 2 differ: best 5 of the first 7 weekly assignments only, with no Mock Quiz in the list | Grading document, the English 1 and English 2 sections |
| Statistics 1 and 2 bonus: 5 marks (3.75 activity + 1.25 quality), peer reviewed, 0 if fewer than 5 peer reviews, added only if you pass | Grading document, the two statistics sections |
| Maths 2 bonus: 6 marks, three activities of 2 each, capped at 100 | Grading document, "Mathematics for data science 2" |
| Mock-test bonus up to 2 marks; only for students who pass; Python's bonus requires the SCT | Grading document, "Bonus Marks" and the Python section |
| "NONE OF THE ASSIGNMENT DEADLINES WILL BE CHANGED"; no make-up quiz | Grading document, assignment deadlines |
| The suggested order — Maths 1, English 1, CT, Stats 1, Maths 2, English 2, Python, Stats 2 | Grading document, "Suggested pathway to register and study Foundation level courses" |
| Pass grades S–E; U/WA/WQ fail; I incomplete, and its three kinds | Grading document, "Information about course grades" |
| Sep 2026 dates: registration 22–23 Sep; term starts 2 Oct; drop window 23–25 Oct; Quiz 1 and the Qualifier 15 Nov; OPPE 1 21–22 Nov; Quiz 2 Saturday 5 Dec; OPPE 2 19–20 Dec and 2–3 Jan; end term 10 Jan 2027; results 18–23 Jan; Qualifier applications close 27 Sep | The official Sep 2026 academic calendar image, linked from academic_calendar.html. I read the image itself rather than a summary of it. |
| Lecture counts and total hours for all eight courses (951 videos, ~309 hours) | The eight official playlists on the programme's YouTube channel, listed with yt-dlp on 23 September 2026. Counts are of the playlists as they stood that day. |
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Not from an official page
Where the site is giving you a view, not a record| Claim | What it actually is |
|---|---|
| Grade bands S ≥ 90, A ≥ 80, B ≥ 70, C ≥ 60, D ≥ 50, E ≥ 40 (used by the hub calculator) | The programme's usual scale, not taken from the grading document. The calculator says so on the page. Confirm against your course. |
| Every "Where the marks actually go" section | My own reading of each course and of what people repeatedly get stuck on. Opinion, labelled as such on each page. |
| "What to do in week one" plans | Advice, not rules. The only hard items in them — the SCT, the assignment deadlines, the peer reviews — are sourced above. |
| Quartile convention in the Statistics 1 widget (median of halves, excluding the median when n is odd) | The convention in the prescribed Weiss text. Other books differ, and the widget says so. |
| Groupings like "weeks 1–6 are algebra, 7–9 calculus, 10–11 graph theory" | My grouping of the official week list, to make the shape of a course visible. |
| Maths 2's week count | The course page says "eleven weeks of coursework" and lists eleven; the grading document still uses the standard "W11/W12" wording. The site flags the mismatch rather than resolving it. |
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Left out on purpose
Things that exist and are not linked here- Graded-assignment and quiz answer sites. Several exist and are easy to find. They are not linked from any page on this site, and they never will be.
- Anything that would help you break the LLM rule on Python's programming assignments.
- Paid coaching and "solutions" services.
- Discourse threads. They are login-only, so they cannot be checked by a reader and are not cited.
Every external link on this site was opened and checked on 23 September 2026. If one has rotted since, it is a bug — the site would rather drop a link than keep a dead one.
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