IGNOU MSCAST Project (MSTP 011 Dissertation): Guide, Synopsis, Report and Viva Rules

What the IGNOU MSCAST Project asks of you in semester four

The governing document is the Handbook on Dissertation/Project Work for MSTP-011, published by the School of Sciences in November 2024 (course coordinators Prof. Manish Trivedi and Dr. Prabhat Kumar Sangal). It splits the work into two phases. Phase 1 is the synopsis and the approval of your guide. Phase 2 is the study itself, the report, its submission and a presentation with viva-voce. Eight credits at 30 hours a credit means the handbook expects at least 240 hours of your time, and it lets you begin in the third semester as long as the whole Dissertation is finished within one year.

The analysis is meant to be done with real statistical software. The handbook names R, Python, SPSS, SAS and Excel, and it lists finance, healthcare, environmental science, machine learning, social science and business analytics as fields where the study may sit.

The first MSTP 011 problem we usually hear about is the guide, before any topic exists. Many MSCAST learners pick a statistician they know without reading the four eligibility groups in section 3 of the handbook, and the synopsis then waits on a guide question that could have been settled in a day.

Learners often write to us asking whether 31 May or 30 November is the synopsis date or the report date. For the MSTP-011 Dissertation those are report dates; the synopsis dates are 31 October for the July batch and 30 April for the January batch, both shown in Table 6 of the handbook.

MSTP 011 project material and the other MSCAST shelves

Reference sets for the IGNOU MSCAST Project sit in the product grid of this category, above this guide. Each MSTP 011 project set is study reference for seeing how an applied statistics synopsis and report are laid out; they are not for submission as your own work. For the courses that feed the Dissertation, the store keeps separate MSCAST shelves, matched below to the stage you are at.

Ask which MSTP 011 set fits your topic

MSTP 011 or MSTE-011 with MSTE-012: the fourth-semester choice

An IGNOU MSCAST Project is optional. The July 2026 Common Prospectus lists MSTP 011 (8 credits) beside MSTE 011 Operations Research and MSTE 012 Stochastic Processes (4 credits each), all marked with the same asterisk: you take the two theory electives together, or the Dissertation. The programme totals 80 credits either way.

The Dissertation suits a learner who already has access to a dataset, a workplace problem or a guide. A learner who has neither by the start of semester three loses months to the guide and approval steps, which the electives do not have.

Some MSCAST learners who opt for MSTP 011 believe the synopsis and the report go in together at the end, unsigned by the guide. The handbook runs two separate stages: the guide signs the synopsis, Block D approves it, and only then does the report work begin. A combined, unsigned bundle fails at the first stage.

Seven places the November 2024 handbook answers twice

The handbook that governs the IGNOU MSCAST Project is detailed, but it was clearly assembled from older School of Sciences files. In several places two sections give different numbers or routes for the same step. The table sets each pair side by side with the reading that satisfies both, so a learner is not caught by whichever page an evaluator happens to follow.

Two smaller slips matter less but confuse readers. Section 3 points to “part (iii) (Other Experts in Statistics)” when other experts are group (iv), and the reference style is printed once as “APS” before the handbook settles on APA.

Length is where we see MSTP 011 drafts drift furthest: synopses that run well past the 15 to 20 pages the handbook allows, and reports written to the 20,000-word line in section 1 when the format section sets 10,000 to 15,000. A draft outside the set length gives the evaluator an easy reason to send it back.

The copy count is a question MSCAST learners raise often. For the report, section 11 suggests three copies (guide, yourself, one for submission) and FAQ 12 confirms that only one is handed in, at the Regional Centre or by post to the SED.

Who can guide an IGNOU MSCAST Project

An IGNOU MSCAST Project must run under a supervisor, guide or mentor, or an academic counsellor approved by the Programme Team. Section 3 of the MSTP-011 handbook sets the eligibility in four categories:

• Faculty: Statistics faculty of the School of Sciences, IGNOU; professors, associate professors or assistant professors at recognised universities, colleges or research institutions in Statistics, Mathematics, Data Science or a related discipline, with at least 2 years of teaching; academic counsellors of MSCAST or PGDAST at IGNOU study centres.
• Industry experts: professionals in Statistics, Data Science or Data Analytics in reputed organisations, institutions or government agencies, with 5 years of experience in applied statistical analysis.
• Researchers: Ph.D. holders in Statistics, Mathematics or Economics active in research with at least two papers in peer-reviewed journals in Statistics; or scientists and statisticians at bodies such as ISI, CSO or NSSO with the same two-paper record.
• Any supervisor IGNOU has specifically approved for M.Sc. Applied Statistics learners.

A note in section 3 adds that SOS faculty at headquarters may agree to supervise you on request, and that you may look to nearby universities, colleges or scientific organisations when your area is not covered there.

MSCAST learners tell us they asked their study centre for an MSTP 011 guide and were not given one. The handbook does not promise an allotment; it gives you four routes, and Annexure F is the shortest of them, because a name on that list needs no approval.

When no MSTP 011 guide turns up, some MSCAST learners ask a relative or a former teacher to sign. Before you approach anyone, hold their record against the section 3 test: two years of teaching, five years in applied statistical analysis, or two peer-reviewed papers in Statistics, depending on the category.

Guide bio-data, consent letter and the self-attested documents

Two guide documents travel with the IGNOU MSCAST Project synopsis packet. Appendix IV is a one-paragraph consent letter in which the supervisor certifies that the named Dissertation will be carried out under their guidance, with name, designation and address. Appendix V is the bio-data form: contact details, organisation, whether the guide is an MSCAST counsellor (with study centre code), qualifications from graduation onwards, teaching or research experience, the number of MSCAST learners now under the guide, publications, and the guide’s signature.

The note at the foot of Appendix V asks for self-attested copies of the guide’s Master’s degree, any NET, SLET, SET, M.Phil or Ph.D. degree, and proof of teaching or research experience. The Discipline of Statistics marks the guide Approved or Not Approved on the same form. If the guide is found ineligible, section 7.2 says you change the guide and submit a fresh synopsis signed by the new guide, with the new bio-data. The guide’s remuneration bill (Annexure E) prints no amount; it says only that payment follows IGNOU norms.

We have seen synopses come back because the guide’s bio-data carried no stamp or no working ID. For MSTP 011 the bio-data is signed, the degrees and experience proofs are self-attested, and the faculty approval box is stamped by the School, so a guide who signs without checking the attachments can hold up the whole MSTP 011 packet.

A guide who sends the MSTP 011 synopsis back for three or four rounds of edits can push it past 31 October or 30 April. Put draft dates in the Work Plan section from the start, so both of you can see the posting date approaching.

IGNOU MSCAST project topics drawn from your MST courses

IGNOU MSCAST project topics start from Table 1 of the handbook, which lists indicative research areas under eleven themes, from econometrics and biostatistics to data science and public policy. The list is indicative, not a set from which you must copy a title. Appendix III tells evaluators that a Masters-level topic should not be elementary, and should be relevant, specific and application-oriented.

MST 023 Research Methodology, a third-semester course, is the one the handbook itself points you to (section 6, note 4) before you draft the synopsis.

MSCAST learners sometimes ask whether they must pick a Table 1 line exactly as printed. The handbook calls the list indicative; we would treat each line as a starting shape and narrow it to your own data, place and period.

Topic choice is the step most MSTP 011 learners describe to us as the hardest. Many say no counselling class ever showed them how a statistics synopsis is built, so the course-to-theme table above is where we suggest beginning.

One evaluator comment we see repeated on returned synopses, MSCAST ones included, asks the learner to base the study on their own city or location. For an applied statistics topic that often means a district dataset, a local hospital or a nearby plant rather than national figures alone.

From a theme to a dissertation title the evaluator can test

Title rules for the IGNOU MSCAST Project are short. The title should be focused, self-explanatory and no longer than two to three lines (section 6), and Appendix III adds that it should be specific and reflect the important variables. A frame like the one below keeps the outcome, the explanatory variables, the technique, the place and the period in view.

“A Study of Stock Markets” fails both tests because it names no variable, place or method. A title that names the monthly series, the exchange, the years and the model gives the evaluator something to approve.

We have seen synopses returned with the “Title of Dissertation/Project Work” line on the MSTP-011 Appendix I proforma left empty. Copy the final title onto the proforma, the cover page and the consent letter in the same words.

Titles lifted from widely shared material or the same outside source tend to arrive on several MSTP 011 synopses at once, and repeated topics are a common reason for return. A title tied to your own dataset and period is far less likely to match someone else’s.

Primary data, secondary data and the missing reference letter

An IGNOU MSCAST Project may rest on either kind of data. Primary data come from surveys, experiments, interviews or field studies; secondary data from government reports, financial databases, research journals or census data (section 6, Research Methodology). Appendix III asks evaluators to look for standardised tools for data collection, and for the choice of a quantitative, qualitative or mixed approach to be justified. FAQ 21 allows an industry-based project with an organisation’s data, provided IGNOU approves it.

Two timing rules matter. Data collection begins only after the synopsis is approved (section 6, note 2). For data from an organisation, point 14 says you may use “the reference letter given in Annexure-F” after getting it issued by your study centre or Regional Centre, but Annexure F in this handbook is the list of approved guides; no letter is printed. Ask your Regional Centre for its own letter format.

Many MSCAST synopses we see rest on secondary data alone. The MSTP-011 handbook allows that, but section 6 still asks you to justify the population, the sample size and the sampling technique, so a downloaded table needs the same reasoning as a survey.

Some learners write the MSTP 011 analysis on figures they assumed rather than collected or downloaded. The data have to come from your own approved work, because the MSTP 011 viva examiner can ask where any number came from.

The questionnaire or data dictionary is the appendix we most often find missing from statistics reports. The handbook keeps appendices for what is really necessary; for a survey-based MSTP 011 study, the instrument is.

Writing the IGNOU MSCAST project synopsis in eight parts

The IGNOU MSCAST project synopsis follows the eight-part format in section 6 of the handbook. Two other lists in the same handbook name extra headings, so the table adds them where they belong.

Appendix II, the evaluator’s sheet, has boxes for Introduction, Review of literature, Rationale, Objectives and Hypotheses, Research Methodology, Tools and Software, Data Analysis and References. A synopsis that gives each of those a visible heading is easy to comment on and easy to approve.

Synopses that reach us often skip a core part, most commonly the hypotheses or the sampling justification inside the methodology. The MSTP-011 evaluator sheet asks about objectives and hypotheses in one box, so leaving either out shows at once.

Returns we have seen on MSTP 011 and similar courses cite a missing rationale, or a survey study with no data collection instrument described. In this handbook the Rationale of the Study is its own part, and Appendix III wants standardised tools named.

A mismatch between the literature review and the reference list is common in the drafts we read: authors discussed in part 3 who are missing from part 8, or the reverse, in MSCAST synopses as much as any other. Check each in-text citation against the APA list before the guide signs.

15 to 20 pages, Times New Roman 12 and a spiral binding

The IGNOU MSCAST Project synopsis typing rules sit in one paragraph of section 6: A4 paper, Times New Roman at 12 points, 1.5 line spacing, 15 to 20 pages or roughly 4,000 words, submitted as a spiral-bound notebook. Section 7 adds that the copy sent for approval is typed on A-4 paper with pages numbered at the bottom centre and signed by the guide. Point 3 of section 14 sets English as the language of the Dissertation, and point 2 asks for white A4 paper.

The synopsis must be your own writing under the guide’s direction. The handbook says copied or plagiarised synopses are summarily rejected.

A few learners still send a handwritten synopsis. For MSTP 011 the handbook asks for typed pages in a named font and spacing, so a handwritten draft is best kept for your discussions with the guide.

Learners regularly ask us whether the MSCAST synopsis is bound or filed, and which papers go with it. The handbook is unusually clear on both: spiral binding for the synopsis, and the seven documents listed in the next section, in that order.

What goes into the synopsis envelope, in order

Section 7 lists the documents of the IGNOU MSCAST Project synopsis packet in a fixed sequence and warns that a synopsis not meeting these formats will not be considered for evaluation. A cover letter goes with it.

The Appendix I proforma asks for enrolment number, course code, name and address, mobile number, e-mail, Regional Centre and study centre, title, and the guide’s name, designation and address, with a tick for counsellor, approved list or other. Section 7 asks the synopsis cover to carry your correspondence address with mobile and e-mail and the codes of your study centre and Regional Centre.

The proforma is the document we see forgotten most, or replaced by a proforma from another course. For MSTP 011 it is Appendix I, it prints “(MSTP-011)” in its heading, and it goes first in the envelope.

On the MSTP-011 Appendix I forms that come to our desk, the guide’s address is the line most often left half-filled, and now and then the learner’s own e-mail is missing. The School sends its decision by post and e-mail, so both must be complete.

Sending the synopsis to the Discipline of Statistics at Block D

The IGNOU MSCAST Project synopsis goes by registered or speed post to: The Programme Coordinator, MSCAST Programme, Discipline of Statistics, School of Sciences, Block D, IGNOU, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi 110068. Section 7, point 4 of section 14 and FAQ 6 all give this route, and the flow chart at the front of the handbook says the same in one line: submission of the synopsis at IGNOU Maidan Garhi. Keep a copy of everything you post.

Appendix VI, the acknowledgement slip in the packet, is worded for receipt “at the Regional Centre”, and Appendix III mentions the Regional Centre as an alternative. If you choose to hand the packet in at your Regional Centre instead, ask for the Appendix VI slip to be signed and stamped there.

MSCAST learners are often unsure whether the synopsis goes to the study centre, the Regional Centre or headquarters. For MSTP 011 the handbook’s learner sections send it to the Discipline of Statistics at Block D, Maidan Garhi, which is a different office from the SED Block 3 address used later for the report.

The speed post receipt for the MSTP 011 packet is the piece of paper learners most often throw away. With an approval letter promised within four weeks of receipt, that receipt is your only proof of when the four weeks began.

1 to 31 October or 1 to 30 April: synopsis dates by batch

IGNOU MSCAST Project dates depend on the batch you enrolled in. Section 7 gives the synopsis windows, Table 3 the report dates, Table 5 the viva ranges, and Table 6 joins them. Point 7 of section 14 says the timeline should be strictly followed, and the same point adds that submissions can be made throughout the year; the note under the section 7 table says learners who miss the dates may submit synopses throughout the year.

Point 11 of section 14 reads the report dates as result windows: a report submitted between 1 December and 31 May is declared with the June term-end examination, and one submitted between 1 June and 30 November with the December term-end examination. Approval of the synopsis stays valid until your admission expires (point 12), which for MSCAST is a maximum of 4 years.

In our records, 70 to 80 percent of students become active only in the last month before a date. For a July-batch MSCAST learner that means starting the synopsis in late September for an October window, with a guide still to be found.

Many MSTP 011 synopses are posted in the last week of October or April. Posting earlier in the window gives the four-week approval clock room before the report stage.

Some learners wait for IGNOU to announce an extension before they begin. The MSTP-011 handbook already lets synopses come in through the year, so the real cost of waiting is the time left for analysis and writing before 31 May or 30 November.

240 hours spread over the handbook’s 20-week plan

For the IGNOU MSCAST Project, the Work Plan example in section 6 uses five four-week blocks: literature review, data collection, data analysis and interpretation, writing the Dissertation, and final submission with revisions. Spreading the handbook’s minimum of 240 hours evenly over those 20 weeks gives the budget below.

The data collection block cannot begin until approval arrives, so the first four weeks are best used for reading while the synopsis is with the School.

Learners who start the MSTP 011 synopsis a few days before the window closes often find they have no time left to write it themselves. Twelve hours a week is manageable for a working learner; twelve hours in a single weekend is not.

Returned synopses we have seen sometimes carry no study period and no time schedule. In the MSTP 011 synopsis, part 7 (Work Plan and Timeline) is where the weeks go, and the period of the data belongs in the title and the methodology.

Four weeks on paper: when the approval letter is late

For an IGNOU MSCAST Project, section 7.1 says the approval letter, physical or digital, is issued within four weeks of the synopsis reaching the School, by registered or speed post. Once it arrives you may begin data collection, analysis and writing, and any later change to the research plan needs formal permission from the Discipline of Statistics.

For questions, point 1 of section 14 gives the course coordinators’ e-mails, prabhat.sangal@ignou.ac.in and manish_trivedi@ignou.ac.in, and the welcome message gives the programme address mscast@ignou.ac.in. Quote your enrolment number, the posting date and your speed post number.

The MSTP-011 handbook states four weeks. Across IGNOU courses, our experience is that a synopsis decision often takes two to three months, so we suggest planning the report stage around the longer figure.

Most learners who reach us after a long silence do not know whom to write to. For MSCAST it is the two course coordinators named in section 14 of the handbook, and a short e-mail with the posting details usually does more than a visit to the study centre.

We have seen learners whose approval letter did not arrive and whose session ran out while they waited. If six weeks pass after posting the MSTP 011 synopsis, write to the coordinators rather than waiting for the post.

Approved, approved with modifications, not approved

Appendix III gives IGNOU MSCAST Project evaluators three outcomes. Approved means the synopsis is appropriate. Approved with modifications means minor changes, which you must work into the final Dissertation; the Annexure D note says the examiner checks that the report follows the approved synopsis and these modifications. Not approved means major changes in design and methodology are needed.

On non-approval, section 7.2 says the comments come by e-mail and post. The revised packet then holds eight items in order: Appendix VII (resubmission proforma, with your allotted synopsis number and the reason, revision or change of guide), Appendix I, Appendix II, Appendix III, Appendix IV, Appendix V if required, two copies of the revised synopsis, and Appendix VI. Section 7.2 also asks for a copy of the rejected synopsis and the proforma bearing the evaluator’s comments.

An “approved with modifications” letter is easy to file and forget. For MSTP 011 those points are checked again in the report by the external examiner, so we suggest listing each one and noting the page where the report answers it.

Most approvals we see across IGNOU courses carry some correction points, and the MSTP-011 form has a separate box for exactly that outcome. Expect at least a few comments.

The rejected synopsis is the item learners most often leave out of a resubmission. For MSCAST it goes back with the commented proforma and the synopsis number the School allotted.

MSTP 011 Dissertation chapters, title page to references

The MSTP 011 Dissertation follows the sequence in section 8 of the handbook. With the Introduction kept as Chapter 1 (see the table of double answers), the order is:

Section 9 asks each main chapter to run to about 20 to 25 pages, with a chapter number, title, introduction, sections and sub-sections. Section 8 also mentions study area and data collection as possible chapters, which is how a report reaches the seven to eight chapters it describes.

Page order is a frequent doubt among the MSCAST learners who contact us, partly because Table 2 and section 8 disagree. The section 8 sequence above is the one the submission note in section 11 repeats.

The correction we see most often on approved synopses is a request to bring the literature review up to date. Appendix III of the MSTP-011 handbook asks evaluators for exactly that, so carry the newer studies into Chapter 2.

In our experience an old literature review costs marks, and in MSTP 011 it sits inside a 10-mark component in both marks tables. A review that stops several years before your data does not show the gap your study claims to fill.

Hardbound in light grey: the report format rules

Section 10 sets the format of the IGNOU MSCAST Project report volume: Times New Roman 12 point with bold headings, 1.5 line spacing, 1-inch margins on all sides, page numbers at the bottom centre starting from the Introduction, justified text, and figures and tables numbered by chapter (Fig. 1.1, Table 1.1). Every table and figure needs its own explanation and readable labels. The report is hardbound with a hard cover, preferably light grey (section 10 and point 9 of section 14).

Some reports still go in spiral bound. The MSTP-011 handbook asks for spiral binding only for the synopsis; the Dissertation itself is hardbound with a light grey cover.

Once approval arrives, many learners are unsure which format the report should follow. For MSCAST the answer sits in section 10 of the MSTP-011 handbook, and it differs from the synopsis only in margins, page numbering and binding.

The MSTP-011 Annexure B Certificate of Originality has two signature blocks. Reports with only the learner’s signature turn up more often than they should; the guide signs it too, and signs Annexure C separately.

Writing the analysis chapter with R or Python output

In an IGNOU MSCAST Project, Chapter 4 carries 15 of the 100 marks in Table 4 and shares 20 with discussion and conclusion in Annexure D, so it is where a statistics Dissertation is judged most closely. Section 8 asks for data preprocessing first (cleaning, missing values, descriptive statistics), then the chosen methods, with each result explained against the research questions and reported with the right statistics: confidence intervals, p-values and correlation coefficients. Raw software output pasted without interpretation does not meet that request.

Section 8 also answers the common worry about results that do not support a hypothesis: it asks you to discuss unexpected results and the limits of the analysis, and to compare your findings with earlier studies. A rejected hypothesis, honestly explained, is still a finding.

The weakest MSTP 011 chapters we read run tests that do not answer the stated objectives, for example a correlation table for an objective about forecasting. Map each objective to one technique and one table before you open R or Python.

MSCAST references that ignore the APA style the handbook sets, or that leave out the source of the secondary dataset used in Chapter 4, are a pattern we see in many reports. Cite the dataset itself, with its publisher and year.

Some survey-based reports bind the whole stack of filled-in questionnaires at the back. The MSTP-011 handbook is silent on this; common practice is one blank copy of the instrument in the appendix and the coded data summarised in Chapter 4.

Reading an MSCAST project synopsis sample PDF without copying it

An MSCAST project synopsis sample PDF is useful for one thing: seeing how the eight parts, the proforma and an APA list look when they are put together for an applied statistics topic. It is reference material. The handbook rejects copied or plagiarised synopses, the Annexure B certificate states that the report content has been checked for plagiarism, and point 10 of section 14 prohibits plagiarism in any part of the project. A reference set shows structure; your topic, data, analysis and words have to be your own.

Some MSCAST learners draft a synopsis with ChatGPT or another AI tool without opening the handbook, and the result misses the Rationale part, the hypotheses and the sample-size justification the evaluator sheet looks for.

AI-written synopses and reports submitted unchanged are one reason the same MSCAST statistics topics keep appearing. An evaluator who has read three near-identical credit risk studies in a month will notice the fourth.

Text taken from websites and submitted without a plagiarism check is something we come across often. Your guide signs the originality certificate for MSTP 011, so run the check before asking for that signature.

Submitting the IGNOU MSCAST project report: RC counter, post or upload

The IGNOU MSCAST project report route in the handbook is a hard copy, handed in at your Regional Centre or sent by registered or speed post to the SED. The synopsis and the report go to different offices.

Before sealing, section 11 asks you to check that the cover page, title, originality and completion certificates, the approved Appendix I proforma, acknowledgements, contents, chapters and references are in sequence, because an incomplete report is not evaluated. The Annexure E remuneration bill, filled by the guide, is to be submitted along with the Dissertation.

For the December 2026 term-end cycle, IGNOU’s OPMS guidelines (read on 2 November 2026) ask for the project to be uploaded as a single PDF of the scanned original by 30 November 2026, after the project fee is paid in Samarth, with no hard copy to the SED or the Regional Centre afterwards and no e-mailed reports. That differs from the handbook’s hard copy route, and the guidelines name no programme as exempt. Confirm with your Regional Centre which route applies to MSTP 011 for your cycle before you post or upload.

A few learners e-mail the report to a coordinator and treat it as submitted. Neither the MSTP-011 handbook nor the December 2026 upload rules accept an e-mailed report.

Whether the MSTP 011 volume goes over the Regional Centre counter or by speed post to Block 3, keep the receipt with the copy you take to the viva.

The MSCAST reports we see coming back usually miss one of the items in the section 11 check: most often the approved Appendix I proforma, sometimes the Annexure C completion certificate. Tick each against the list before binding, not after.

Ask about printing and light grey binding

Rs 500 fee, TEE form and the viva at your Regional Centre

The IGNOU MSCAST Project flow chart ends with filling the TEE form, paying the examination fee for the project, and the viva at the Regional Centre. The July 2026 Common Prospectus sets the project evaluation fee at Rs 300 for projects of up to 4 credits and Rs 500 above that, so the 8-credit MSTP 011 attracts Rs 500. The SED notice for the December 2026 cycle gave 30 November 2026 as the last date to pay it through Samarth.

Section 12 says the viva is conducted at the Regional Centre in July to August (July batch) or January to February (January batch), on dates the Regional Centre fixes, with the report evaluated by an external examiner. Bring your IGNOU identity card and proof of the TEE fee payment; FAQ 16 adds that it is desirable to bring your own copy of the Dissertation.

The Rs 300 and Rs 500 figures confuse many learners. The slab follows credits, and MSTP 011 at 8 credits is in the Rs 500 slab; no guide honorarium figure is printed anywhere in the MSTP-011 handbook.

Learners often ask whether a viva applies to them. For MSTP 011 it does, at the Regional Centre, and it carries 30 of the 100 marks.

100 marks, 40 to pass and no re-evaluation

An IGNOU MSCAST Project is marked out of 100: the report carries 70 marks and the viva-voce 30; the pass mark is 40 out of 100 (section 12, Annexure D, FAQ 18). Section 12.1 rules out re-evaluation of the Dissertation. A learner below 40 repeats the whole route, from a fresh synopsis through the report to a viva in the next term. FAQ 20 and point 13 allow a change of guide with justification and fresh approval from the Discipline of Statistics.

The examiner’s Annexure D sheet also carries an “Implications of the study, scope, future directions, limitations” line worth 5 marks, so Chapter 6 needs a real limitations paragraph.

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