Parmagam Honours Program

Although we recommend doing the entire 5 year Program in a single go for better understanding and retention, still under any unavoidable situation, if you had to take a break post completion of any Semester, you may continue the subsequent Semester when you are ready. You may only join ongoing Semesters viz. 2, 4, 6, 8 & 10 Semesters in August and 1, 3, 5, 7 & 9 Semester in Feb any year. The Exam results of the previous Semester will need to be submitted for re-admission.

Yes. If you choose to get University Certification, we provide Jain University (JGI) Bangalore certification for every 2 Semesters. One has to register separately and pay additional INR 200 apart from the regular INR 1500 fees every year to apply for the same.

No. This is not equivalent to any University recognised Degree Course like Shastri. Though, on application, we do provide Jain University Certificate that is a Deemed-to-be University and only offers Certificates as mentioned below on completion of Parmagam Honours regular classes, Assignments and Exams:

1. Parmagam Basics for Sem 1-2
2. Parmagam Foundation for Sem 3-4
3. Parmagam Intermediate for Sem 5-6
4. Parmagam Advanced for Sem 7-8
5. Parmagam Honours for Sem 9-10

Please note our certificates don't qualify as substitutes for graduation or any other course recognised by government or university. This is a private certificate.

5 years Jain Darshan Shastri course is done post 10th standard and is a full time residential regular 2+3 course with 2 years Kanishtha & Varishtha Upadhyay (11th & 12th), which is affiliated with Ajmer board and then 3 years of Graduation from Rajasthan University. It has pre-requisites of certain age group and minimum qualification as stated by the Board and University. Shastris become scholars in Sanskrit language, Jain Logic and Grammar apart from studying more than 40 Jain scriptures in original.

We, at Parmagam Honours course, have tried to incorporate only the Jain syllabus of Shastri course and have tied up with Veetrag Vigyan Mukta Vidyapeeth, Jaipur and JGI, Bangalore for certification!

Please note our certificates don't qualify as substitutes for graduation or any other course recognised by government or university. This is a private certificate.

While you are free to attend the class and not appear for exams, there are many downsides on missing exams:

1. You will not get certified
2. The structure of the Course is made to ensure learning through Assignments and Exams also and you will miss out on many important benefits if you miss them
3. Exams bring a kind of discipline and sincerity in studies that otherwise is difficult to achieve
4. You will not be able to test your own understanding that gets highlighted only when you appear for exams

Additionally, the exams are deliberately kept very simple to encourage maximum people to appear. The Exams are Open book and Objective type and are very easy to attempt. So we strongly recommend you give it a try and experience the difference for yourself.

We give an open window to appear for exams if you are not available on a certain day. So you have many time/day options to manage. If still, you have an unavoidable/critical situation, kindly discuss the same with Central Management team Volunteer and if found justified, we can give you extended period to appear for exam same year. If you still miss out completely, you will have to appear for the exam in subsequent semester same time next year; and hence a year will be lost. But it is fine if a student completes the course in 6, 7 or 8 years instead of 5 years as he gets the same certificate of completion of the full course.

Passing marks are 35 out of 100, but we recommend you repeat the year or exam if you get less than 60 by choice. This is because the objective of this course is understanding of concepts in depth, not just passing.

Assignments carry 50% of total Exam marks and focus on the Practical application of the Concepts learned thereby inculcating Research attitude amongst students. These are preferably based on real-life examples that most can connect with to make their own life better. Marks will be for accuracy and relevance of application and not on language quality or length.

You lose marks.

Yes, that is allowed. Please talk to your teacher for this and if the teacher is not comfortable with your choice of language, connect with Central Management Committee to allot alternate teacher for your evaluations.

1. You may refer to recordings of the missed lecture at your convenience before next class.
2. You may also attend some other batch covering the same subject.
3. You may also listen to recordings of other teachers on the same subject if interested.

Please feel free to connect with Teacher or Team Leader or other brighter students of the class for help in after class hours. You may also feel free to share constructive feedback with the Teacher and Team Leader to make the topic easier to understand.

Yes. If you join a specific batch and wish to change the same later, you can do so with advance intimation to the management, respective teachers, and Team Leader.

On registering, you need to fill the Books Ordering Form and confirm which books you want. The same will be couriered to you mostly within 2-3 weeks. The cost of the books and courier (only for India locations) is included in the fees. For overseas, the courier cost is on actuals.