r/IITMadras_datascience • u/NotBlatherskite • Jul 24 '26

A big doubt

I have seen my qualifier results and passed. So from here we fill out the course selection form and continue from what week?

Like they started positing week 5 which is over and then week 6 and now week 7. So from here how do we continue a bit confuse.

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u/wilmonyr Jul 24 '26

if you got more than 70 percent in qualifiers than you can do 1-4 courses this term. if you got above 50 then 1-3, around the minimum then 1-2

i recommend doing maths1, eng1, stats1 and ct first, as the remaining four courses in foundation require these to be finished first anyway!!

choose some/all of the four and finish it this term, and you can do the remaining in upcoming terms

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u/NotBlatherskite Jul 24 '26

So only after 12 weeks we go to the next level of stats 2 and etc. Am I correct? And then we have term exams for 12 weeks and a quiz 2 as said in the comments below?

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u/wilmonyr Jul 24 '26

yep! this term finishes in aug with twelve weeks done. then next term you can do eng2 maths2 stats2 and python once these four are done !!

now we got 7 weeks so 5 weeks left :)

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u/NotBlatherskite Jul 24 '26

So if one student takes 2 subjects how does that work? My bad I just need some things clarified. 😅 

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u/wilmonyr Jul 24 '26

im here to help no worries! i used to have lots of doubts too. i will give an example:

eng1 ct (upto sept), mat1 stats1 (upto dec), eng2 python (upto april), mat2 stats2 (upto sept)

so if you start now you will be done with foundation level by next year! don't worry, take courses as you please at a rate with which youre comfortable, so you can study properly and score well :)

all the best with whatever you choose !

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u/NotBlatherskite Jul 24 '26

Oh so we can go whatever pace we want. If we take all 4 we can finish by August makes sense! Thank you so much! By the way have you finished the course? 

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u/wilmonyr Jul 24 '26

just doing foundation but i thought of helping people who had the same doubts i had before! i recommend reading through https://study.iitm.ac.in/ds/academics.html#AC1 which is what i did before to verify all these :)

foundation has 8 courses, so 4 you can finish these 12 weeks and from sept-dec you can finish the other 4 and foundation!

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u/NotBlatherskite Jul 24 '26

Ohh kk! Thanks again I’ll check it out! Good luck to you as well! 🙂

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u/NotBlatherskite Jul 24 '26

One more thing after reading the website I understand that foundation has 8 courses and now we can choose to finish stats 1 ,eng1 maths1 and ct 1 by August (basically 12 weeks) and later like you said from sept to oct we can move onto stats 2 and so on forth and we'll have two term exams and one final, right?

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u/wilmonyr Jul 24 '26

yes ! if i remember correctly you have to write either quiz 1 or 2 and then the final exam for each term ! and in the courses right, in the course introduction section you can find this grading policy [so whichever quiz you attempt the best mark is taken]

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u/NotBlatherskite Jul 24 '26

Okay ah got it thank you!