PCP Class

PCP Classes have been conceptualized as an opportunity for the COL/SOL students to interact with their teachers/tutors and fellow students regarding the difficulties faced by them, both academic and non-academic. These classes are not meant to cover the entire syllabus. So, the distance learners should not think of PCP classes as a substitute for “full time classroom teaching.” PCP classes are offered to ensure that teachers/tutors/counsellors help and guide the learners with respect to the difficulties faced by the learners, both academic and non-academic. The purpose of such a contact is to answer some of the questions, clarify doubts and lessen the learners/students anxiety to a certain extent. This is to make sure that a learner optimizes his/her learning potential.

Although it isn’t mandatory to attend PCP sessions, we strongly recommend that a student/learner attend these sessions regularly. These sessions may be very useful in certain respects such as- sharing your views on the subject with your teachers/tutors and your fellow students/participants, gain useful insights regarding some complex ideas or difficult issues (which you would not otherwise try to raise), and get clarifications for the various doubts.

Face-to-face counselling is provided to the students/learners. Here, counsellors/tutors will try to overcome the difficulties students/learners face- both academic and personal. In these sessions, students/learners are expected to concentrate primarily on subject-based (academic) difficulties and any concomitant issues.

  1. Various media through which PCP Classes are offered by COL/SOL include
  2. Face to Face: PCP sessions offered by SOL
  3. Telephones/ IRV: Dedicated call centre, meant for handling queries of SOL students.
  4. Handbooks: Self Learning Materials (SLM) are distributed for the benefit of SOL students.
  5. Internet: To aid the SOL students in their learning journey, SOL also provides counselling through COLgram.
  6. COL Radio: SOL students can visit our YouTube channel, COL Radio, regarding any help related to their preparatory classes.

While PCP classes offered by COL/SOL aren’t mandatory, we strongly recommend students to sincerely attend them. COL/SOL offers 10 classes for undergraduate (UG) Programme courses, 15 classes for undergraduate (UG) honours courses and 15 days amounting to roughly 30 hours of classes for the Post-Graduate (PG) courses.

COL/SOL also offers revision classes for UG programme and honours courses as well as PG courses. These classes are conducted online over the MS Teams platform.

The schedule and information regarding PCP classes can be found online on our website: ( Time-Table )