A Study on Evaluating the Effectiveness of Tutorial Programs in Quantitative Tecniques

The intake of students into the master’s programme of business studies poses many problems with regard to the curriculum. Students come from a wide spectrum of undergraduate courses that range from English Literature to Engineering and Commerce. This results in great variances in quantitative and accounting abilities. To bridge the apparent gaps many b-schools have adopted bridge courses as a tool to stabilize the learning outcomes. However these were found to be inadequate and the result is the slowing down of the teaching process to accommodate those with weaker foundations. The article discusses the adoption of a tutorial system to go alongside the main course for a select group of students. In parallel, the teaching of the main course was restricted to the prescribed hours. The results show a significant improvement of scores along with a significant reduction of student hours.