Research Report

on
Effects of Load shedding on students assignment

Submitted By:
Ashish Vaidya
MBA Term III
Roll No: 2

Submitted To:
Moon Pradhan

Graduate School, Ace Institute of Management

In Partial fulfillment of the research methodology course of
MASTER OF BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
SINAMANGAL, KATHMANDU
2010
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The course Instructor

Research Methodology
Ace Institute of Management

Respected Mam,

I am conducting the research on the topic Effects of Load shedding on students assignment as
a partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Business Administration. I
hereby submit a proposal for the same.

Hoping for your approval and support

Yours sincerely

Ashish Vaidya
MBA Term III
Ace Institute of Management

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This is to certify that the Dissertation

Submitted By:
Ashish Vaidya
MBA Term III
Roll No: 2

Entitled
Effects of Load shedding on students assignment
has been prepared as approved by college

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Date: 22nd March, 2010

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I certify that I have read this document and in my opinion, it is satisfactory in scope and quality
as a research project in partial fulfillment for the MBA course of Research Methodology held at
the Ace Institute of Management, Pokhara University during 2010.

_________________________
Course Instructor
Ms. Moon Pradhan
Ace Institute of Management

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Date:
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I would like to express my sincere appreciation to each and every individual who has directly or
indirectly assisted me in compiling this research work.

Firstly, I would like to thank Ms. Moon Pradhan, lecturer, Ace Institute of Management,
Sinamangal, for guiding me throughout this study and taking some time out of her hectic
schedule to listen to me and providing me with valuable and constructive comments.

My sincere thanks goes to all the respondents who courageously spelled out their privacy,
without whom this research would have been totally impossible.

At last my special thanks goes to my family for their coordination to succeed this thesis.

Date:

Executive Summary:

This report has been prepared under the subject research methodology and design, for the
fulfillment of the requirement for the MBA degree. This research is a problem finding research.
This research is conducted to find out the effect of load shedding on students assignment. The
research is based on questionnaire distributed to people belonging to Ace Institute of
Management. The study period taken for the research is 3 months. The report is based on the
sample of 30 respondents.

This survey will be useful for the students as they will be able to express their satisfaction
/dissatisfaction. This survey will be beneficial for the college as well, as it will be able to
improve its students satisfaction and thus create good reputation in the market. From the
research I came to know that there has not been any significant effect of load shedding on the
students of Ace. There are several other factors apart from load shedding that has been affecting
the timely submission of assignments of the students at Ace such as the time given for
assignment submission and the choice between electronic assignments and hand written
assignments..

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Table of Contents
Table of Contents........................................................................................................................ 8
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY......................................................................12
1.1 Background of the report..................................................................................................12
1.2 Rational............................................................................................................................ 13
1.3 Objective of the study.......................................................................................................13
1.4 Limitations ....................................................................................................................... 14
1.5 Methodology..................................................................................................................... 14
1.6 Literature review............................................................................................................... 14
CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION OF THE TOPICS.....................................................................15
2.1 Load shedding.................................................................................................................. 15
2.2 The Current Scenario.......................................................................................................16
2.3 Background of the organization of study...........................................................................16
2.4 Vision............................................................................................................................... 17
2.5 Mission............................................................................................................................. 17
2.6 Values.............................................................................................................................. 17
CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH DESIGN..........................................................................................19
3.1 Research Topic................................................................................................................ 19
3.2 Management Decision Problem .......................................................................................19
3.3 Research Question .......................................................................................................... 19
3.4 Dependent variable.......................................................................................................... 19
3.5 Independent variable........................................................................................................20
3.7 HYPOTHESIS.................................................................................................................. 21
CHAPTER 4: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY............................................................................22
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4.1 Research Design.............................................................................................................. 22

4.2 Study place....................................................................................................................... 22
4.3 Study population............................................................................................................... 22
4.4 Study period..................................................................................................................... 22
4.5 Sample size...................................................................................................................... 23
4.6 Data collection.................................................................................................................. 23
.............................................................................................................................................. 23
4.7 Data Analysis................................................................................................................... 23
CHAPTER 5: FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS.................................................................................24
Table 1................................................................................................................................ 24
Table 2................................................................................................................................ 25
Table 3................................................................................................................................ 27
Table 4................................................................................................................................ 28
Table 5................................................................................................................................ 30
Table 6................................................................................................................................ 31
Table 7................................................................................................................................ 32
Table 8................................................................................................................................ 33
Table 9................................................................................................................................ 34
Table 10.............................................................................................................................. 34
CHAPTER 6: DISCUSSION.......................................................................................................38
CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION.........................................................39
7.1 Conclusion........................................................................................................................ 39
7.2 Recommendation............................................................................................................. 40
Reference.................................................................................................................................. 41
Appendix.................................................................................................................................... 42

LIST OF FIGURES
3.6 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK...........................................................................................21
Bar Chart 1................................................................................................................................ 24
Bar Chart 2................................................................................................................................ 25
Bar Chart 3............................................................................................................................... 27
Table 4 chart 4........................................................................................................................... 29
Table 5 Chart 5.......................................................................................................................... 31

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LIST OF TABLE

Table 1....................................................................................................................................... 24
Table 2....................................................................................................................................... 25
Table 3....................................................................................................................................... 27
Table 4....................................................................................................................................... 28
Table 5....................................................................................................................................... 30
Table 6....................................................................................................................................... 31
Table 7....................................................................................................................................... 32
Table 8....................................................................................................................................... 33
Table 9....................................................................................................................................... 34
Table 10..................................................................................................................................... 34
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION OF THE STUDY

1.1 Background of the report
This project was assigned by the Pokhara University as a partial fulfillment of the requirement
for the degree of Master of Business Administration under the subject Business Research
Methodology. The research topic carried out is Effects of Load shedding on students
assignment. The reason behind choosing this research topic is because load shedding is the most
recurrent problem in Nepal at the present. Therefore, I wanted to find out to what extent load
shedding has been affecting the students, specially their submission of assignments. For that, I

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have conducted the research through structured questionnaire with people inside Ace Institute of
Management.

1.2 Rational
This survey will be beneficial for the college, since by this survey they will know to what extent
the students at ace are being affected by the problem of load shedding. They will get an
understanding as to how students are facing the problem of timely submission of assignment due
to load shedding. The college will be able to see where the college is doing good, and also to
determine where the college is lacking and needs improvement. By focusing more on the factors
that needs to be improved. This will further help the management to attract more qualitative
students in the future.
This survey will be useful for the students as well, as they will be able to express their
satisfaction /dissatisfaction to the management as well as suggest ways for dealing with the
problem in hand. This will be presented to Management of the college. Hence they can expect
improvement for the days to come and a solution for the problem.

1.3 Objective of the study

For the partial fulfillment of the requirement for the degree of MBA

To find out the extent to which load shedding has been affecting the students and their
submission of assignments on time.

To find out the probable solutions to the existing problem

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1.4 Limitations

The sample population is very large but sample size taken is small.

As the questionnaire consisted of very few Yes/No questions, not much of analysis part
consists of tables, bars, and charts.

1.5 Methodology
The questionnaire will be given to students of ace morning MBA personally by the investigator.
The sample of 30 students will be chosen through simple random sampling design, where each of
30 individuals will have equal chance of being selected for the study. This will insure accuracy
and precision of result.
The questionnaire will be personally explained by the investigator to the sample on any topic
they do not understand, so that no communication gap will be created. This would thus avoid
misleading conclusion due to communication gap while collecting the information

1.6 Literature review

The report is on the effects of Load Shedding on students assignment at Ace institute of
Management and basically being a primary research, not much secondary data will be collected.
However few articles collected from internet on the related topics consists of:

www.nea.com.np
From this secondary data I was able to find out the capability of Nepal Electricity
Authority for providing electricity to the citizens of Kathmandu Valley. The extent to
which load shedding was going to increase.

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The article published in The Himalayan Times- It mentioned that load shedding was one
of the most serious problems for the Nepalese people. Students being one of the biggest
victims of it. It said that load shedding was having a negative impact on the students
education standard. A mass of students had been directly or indirectly affected by load
shedding especially their grades and quality of work.

www.google.com

From this site I found out the meaning to some important terms and incidents related to
the research topic and gave me an idea about the current scenario.

CHAPTER 2: INTRODUCTION OF THE TOPICS

2.1 Load shedding
Load shedding means the cutting off the electric current on certain lines when the demand
becomes greater than the supply. It is the process by which an electricity utility cuts power to
some customers in response to a shortage of availability electricity.
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2.2 The Current Scenario

The unending suffering of the masses is now taking its toll on the most vulnerable segment of
society, its students. Students from all over the city consider themselves the worst affected by
load shedding, as frequent power outages have brought exam preparations to a near standstill.
Many say they feel like they are living in the Stone Age, and have effectively no time to study at
home. Many students, particularly those who reside in hostels, are appearing for their
supplementary examinations nowadays and complaining about the frequent power outages.
The city is facing about 12 hours of load shedding everyday. One of the MBA students at ACE
complained that examiners and teachers do not understand their predicament, as they consider
load shedding to be no excuse. "With so much load shedding, it is hard for me or any other
student to study at night, which is the only time we have for college work. If this continues, I will
not be able to get good grades." "We suffer a lot as we have to write assignments and use the
Internet very frequently. Due to the trimester system observed in our university, it becomes very
difficult to maintain grades."

2.3 Background of the organization of study.

Ace Institute of Management is an contemporary, conscientious learning center where students at
different levels prepare to meet the challenges and opportunities of the 21st century. It is
affiliated to Pokhara University. It was established in 1999 A.D. Within the short period of ten
years, it has been able to establish itself as one of the leading institutions in the country. It was

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the first institution to introduce Executive MBA program in 1999. Various programs offered by
Ace are:

EMBA

MBAe

MBA

BBA

BBA-BI

A level

Ace Higher Secondary

2.4 Vision
Enhance the capacity of individuals and institutions in Nepal to contribute to the nation's
development.

2.5 Mission
Promote entrepreneurship and professionalism by assisting entrepreneurs and institutions in
acquiring and managing resources effectively.
Promote a learning environment where individuals can learn to be thoughtful and responsible
managers, leaders, and entrepreneurs.

2.6 Values

Honesty in work

Learning from mistakes

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Adherence to regulations

Sincerity in relationships

Respect for self and others

Responsibility for one's actions

Care for resources

Questioning spirit.

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CHAPTER 3: RESEARCH DESIGN

3.1 Research Topic

Effects of Load shedding on students assignment

3.2 Management Decision Problem

How to solve the problem of students timely submission of assignment due to load shedding?
Whether to provide additional power backup facilities to the students?

3.3 Research Question

What is the level of effect of load shedding on students assignment? What might be the
probable solutions to the existing problem?

3.4 Dependent variable

The dependent variable of the research topic:

Timely submission of assignments.

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3.5 Independent variable

From the above mentioned interview, following four independent variables related to the
research topic were derived:

Hand written Assignment

Access at college

Generator backup at college

Load shedding

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3.6 THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

3.7 HYPOTHESIS

There is significant relationship between timely submission of assignments and

alternative hand written assignments.

There is significant relationship between timely submission of assignments and Access of

electricity at college.

There is significant relationship between timely submission of assignments and generator

backup at college.

There is significant relationship between timely submission of assignments and load

shedding.

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CHAPTER 4: RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

4.1 Research Design
The research design adopted in this study is first descriptive, trying to find out the extent of the
effect of load shedding on students assignment and also look s to find out the potential solutions
to the problem. It is based on questionnaire distributed to students studying in Ace Institute of
Management, morning shift. The samples were chosen using simple random sampling design,
ensuring accuracy and precision of result. This research is trying to see the extent to which load
shedding is affecting the students timely submission of assignments.

4.2 Study place

The study was conducted in the premise of Ace institute of Management.

4.3 Study population

The study population covers all the students of Ace Institute of Management studying in
Morning Shift MBA. It constitutes of all students of MBA second, third and fourth trimester of
morning MBA.

4.4 Study period

The study period taken for this research is 3 months.

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4.5 Sample size

The study sample taken for this research is 30 respondents all students of Ace Institute of
Management. The samples were chosen using simple random sampling design, where each of 30
individuals had equal chance of being selected. This has insured accuracy and precision of result.

4.6 Data collection

This survey is totally based on the primary data collected through questionnaires distributed to
the sample. However some secondary information about the organization was collected through
website, newspaper and magazines.

4.7 Data Analysis

Once the data was collected, the information were coded and got fitted on the SPSS program to
determine how satisfied the students at Ace Institute of Management are and to find out the
factors that students would consider most important for their satisfaction. By using various tools
of SPSS (One sample t test, frequency tests etc) the calculated values, tables, graphs were
derived. On the basis of these analyses has been drawn.

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CHAPTER 5: FINDINGS AND ANALYSIS

This analysis is based on the report Effect of load shedding on students assignment. For this
30 respondents were asked to fill questionnaire, and on the basis of the response of the
respondents, analysis has been made.

Table 1.

Is hand written assignment an alternative to the electronic assignment?

Valid Yes
No
Total
Bar Chart 1

Frequency Percent
22
73.3
8
26.7
30
100.0

Valid
Cumulative
Percent
Percent
73.3
73.3
26.7
100.0
100.0

Is hand written assignment an alternative to the electronic

assignment?

Table 1 chart 1

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Interpretation:

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Among the sample of 30

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y
c
n
u
q
re
F

respondents, 22 respondents
i.e. 73.3 % have said that

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hand written assignments

can be made an alternative to

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0
Yes

No

Is hand written assignment an alternative to the electronic

assignment?

electronic assignments. They are happy with any kinds of assignment. 8 respondents i.e. 26.7%
completely against of it. Main reason behind this is that they do not have the habit of writing,
they have handwriting problems and more thing is that they have easy access of electricity at
college.

Table 2.

Do you think that the generator backup at Ace is sufficient to support the timely
submission of assignments?
Valid
Yes
No
Total

Frequency Percent
26
86.7
4
13.3
30
100.0

Percent
86.7
13.3
100.0

Cumulative
Percent
86.7
100.0

Bar Chart 2.

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Do you think that the generator backup at Ace is sufficient to

support the timely submission of assignments?
30

25

20

y
c
n
u
q
re
F

15

10

0
Yes

No

Do you think that the generator backup at Ace is sufficient to

support the timely submission of assignments?

Table 2 chart 2
Interpretation:
Among the sample of 30 respondents, 26 respondents i.e. 86.7 % have said that the generator
backup at Ace is sufficient to support timely submission of assignment while 4 respondents i.e.
13.3% dont not think so.

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Table 3.

Do you think the popularity of electronic assignments is decreasing?

Valid

No
Cannot
say
Total

Frequency Percent
16
53.3

Valid
Cumulative
Percent
Percent
53.3
53.3

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46.7

46.7

30

100.0

100.0

100.0

Bar Chart 3

Do you think the popularity of electronic assignments are

decreasing?
20

15

y
c
n
u
q
re
F

10

0
No

Cannot say

Do you think the popularity of electronic assignments are

decreasing?

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Table 3 chart 3

Interpretation
Most of the respondents said that popularity of the load shedding is not decreasing. About half of
the respondents are indifferent to this question. So according the data we received we can see
that its popularity is seem to be decreasing. But this is not the case of ace. Respondents have
given this perception about decreasing popularity of electronic assignments because of load
shedding in Kathmandu. They think that all of the colleges cannot provide electric service at
their colleges.

Table 4

When do you mostly do your assignment?

Valid

Afternoon
Night
Evening
Total

Frequency Percent
4
13.3
13
43.3
13
43.3
30
100.0

Valid Cumulative
Percent
Percent
13.3
13.3
43.3
56.7
43.3
100.0
100.0

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When do you mostly do your assignment?

Afternoon
Night
Evening

Table 4 chart 4

Interpretation
I found amazing results in this question. Despite of having load shedding problems 86.6% of the
respondents do their assignment in the evening and at night while only few do at the afternoon
time. Students just need 2-3 hours to complete the assignment and they do it in the college. From
this we can conclude that load shedding do not have serious affect on students of ace. This might
not be the case for other college students.

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Table 5
Have you missed the submission Deadline due to load shedding?

Valid

Sometimes
Quite often

Frequency
10
8

Percent
33.3
26.7

Valid Percent
33.3
26.7

Cumulative
Percent
33.3
60.0

Frequently

10

33.3

33.3

93.3
100.0

Never

6.7

6.7

Total

30

100.0

100.0

Have you missed the submission Deadline due to loadshedding?

10

Frequency

0
Sometimes

Quite often

Frequently

Never

Have you missed the submission Deadline due to loadshedding?

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Table 5 Chart 5
Interpretation:
It has been found that 70% of the students have sometimes missed their assignment due to load
shedding. About 30 % of the students have frequently missed their assignment due to load
shedding.

Table 6
How much time were you given from date of assignment and due date?

Valid

Percent
33.3
16.7

Valid Percent
33.3
16.7

Cumulative
Percent
33.3
50.0
100.0

1 day
4-5 days

Frequency
10
5

6-7 days

15

50.0

50.0

Total

30

100.0

100.0

How much time were you given fron date of assignment and due date?

15

Frequency

12

0
1 day

4-5 days

6-7 days

How much time were you given fron date of assignment and due date?

Table 6 Chart 6
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Interpretation:
About 66.7% of the students have said that teachers give more than 4 days for the completion of
the assignments.

Table 7

T- TEST
One-Sample Statistics

N
How much time
do you usually
devote for your
assignment?

Mean
30

3.3000

Std.
Deviation
.59596

Std.
Error
Mean
.10881

Interpretation:
As the mean is greater than 3, students give more than 2 hours to complete their assigned
assignments. From the research I came to know that students are not given more assignment.
During interview with some of the faculties, they said that due to of more pressure of trimester
system; they give few assignments to the students.

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Table 8

One-Sample Test
Test Value = 3

T
How much time
do you usually
devote for your
assignment?

2.757

Sig. (2tailed)

df
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.010

Mean
Differenc
e
.30000

95% Confidence
Interval of the
Difference
Lower
.0775

Upper
.5225

Interpretation
H0= students do not devote few hours to complete the assignments.
H1= students do devote few hours to complete the assignments.

Cal T = 2.757
Tab T= 2.045
Since Cal t > Tab t we reject null hypothesis. Hence students devote only few hours that are 1-2
to complete their assignments. From this we can conclude that students do not have much more
pressure of the assignments.

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Table 9

One-Sample Statistics

N
A)Do you prefer
hand written
assignment?
B)Have you missed
the submission
deadline due to load
shedding?
C)How much time
were you given from
date of assignment
and due date?
D)Do you prefer
electronic
assignment?

Mean

Std.
Deviation

Std.
Error
Mean

30

2.3000

.70221

.12821

30

3.1333

.97320

.17768

30

2.8333

1.36668

.24952

30

3.8667

1.13664

.20752

Interpretation:
A) As the mean is less than 3, most of the respondents do not prefer hand written
assignments despites of having load shedding problems in Kathmandu. Due to of access
of electricity at ace, students still prefer electronic assignment.
B) As the mean is greater than 3, respondents have missed the submission deadline due to
load shedding. Point to be noted is that they do not have missed the assignments due to
load shedding. Others factors behind missing of assignments might be sickness and house
related problem.
C) As the mean is less than 3, most of the respondents were given at least one week to
complete the assignment. Students are given sufficient time to complete the assignment.
D) As the mean is greater than 3, majority of the respondents prefer electronic assignment.

Table 10

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One-Sample Test
Test Value = 3

t
A) Do you prefer
hand written
assignment?
B) Have you missed
the submission
deadline due to load
shedding?
C) How much time
were you given from
date of assignment
and due date?
D) Do you prefer
electronic
assignment?

Sig. (2tailed)

Df

Mean
Differenc
e

95% Confidence
Interval of the
Difference
Lower

Upper

-5.460

29

.000

-.70000

-.9622

-.4378

.750

29

.459

.13333

-.2301

.4967

-.668

29

.509

-.16667

-.6770

.3437

4.176

29

.000

.86667

.4422

1.2911

Interpretation

A) H0=students do not prefer handwritten assignments.

H1= students prefer handwritten assignments.

Level of significance =5%

Cal T = -5.460
Tab T= -1.699
Since Cal t < Tab t we accept null hypothesis. Therefore students do not like handwritten
assignments in this load shedding problem too. This is because there is electricity back up at
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college and most students do not like handwritten assignments because it does not look
professional and they have handwriting problems.
B) H0=students do not missed the submission deadline.
H1=students missed the submission deadline.

Level of significance =5%

Cal T = .750
Tab T= 1.699
Since Cal t < Tab t we accept null hypothesis. Therefore there is no significant relationship
between the submission deadline and load shedding. Students do not have missed the submission
deadline. From this also we can conclude that load shedding do not have affected timely
submission of assignments.
C) H0= students do not prefer electronic assignments.
H1= students prefer electronic assignments.
Level of significance =5%
Cal T = 4.176
Tab T= -1.699
Here calculated T is greater than table T. we reject null hypothesis that is students like electronic
assignments. So, we can conclude that load shedding is not reducing the popularity of electronic
assignments in ace.

Findings from open ended questions

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The other factors that have been found from the questionnaire are:

It is found that majority of the students believe that the submission deadline of
assignments must be increased.

Students would be greatly aided if the college computer lab would be open till late hours.

It would be better if teachers would provide students with the alternative of submitting
either hand written assignment or electronic assignment.

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CHAPTER 6: DISCUSSION
We can see form our research that there are several factors that affect the timely submission of
assignments than just the eminent problem of load shedding. The research has brought forward
us several facts that seemed to be rather unusual before. Load shedding definitely has a profound
impact on students and their quality of work but the strange thing that has been found by the
research is that at Ace Institute of Management students and their timely submission of
assignment have been affected more by factors such as short submission deadline of
assignments, early closing of the college computer lab, lack of alternative between choice of
doing assignment electronically and in a hand written format. The students were asked several
questions so as to find out the factors affecting their submission of assignments such as when did
they mostly do their assignment, how much time did they devote for their assignment, whether
hand written assignment was an alternative to electronic assignment, whether they were given
sufficient time to complete their assignment, etc. From their answers it was evident that students
at Ace somehow managed to cope up with the problem of load shedding some way or the other
but had faced several other valid problems that were affecting their submission of assignment on
time along with the quality of their work.

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CHAPTER 7: CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION

7.1 Conclusion
From the finding and interpretations we can conclude that students at Ace Institute of
Management rather than being effected more by load shedding happening in Nepal were more
troubled by factors such as short submission deadline of assignments, early closing of the college
computer lab, lack of alternative between choice of doing assignment electronically and in a
hand written format.
This doesnt overpower the fact that load shedding has a tremendous impact on students in either
some direct or indirect way. The quality of work of the students is greatly affected as they have
to work under enforced constraints such as load shedding. The inability to work at the time of
their convenience itself is a huge drawback than it seems. Due to of access of electricity at ace,
students still prefer electronic assignment but have said that it would be a lot better if they were
also given the option of submitting hand written assignment instead of just electronic
assignments.

Others factors behind missing of assignments seemed to be sickness and house related problems.
From the research it is known that students are not given more assignment. During interview
with some of the faculties, they said that due to the excess pressure of trimester system; they give
few assignments to the students. From the research we can conclude that students at Ace have
found ways to tackle the problem of load shedding but are faced with critical issues that are more
in control of the college.

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7.2 Recommendation
Even though there does not seem to be much impact of load shedding on the assignment of the
students there are several other factors and issues that are actually having an impact on the
students and their ability to submit their assignments on time. Some of these issues are
fortunately in control of the management of the college. Students satisfaction is important for
the college too as they have to develop good market value and in order maintain long term
relationship with the students to have good network. They can take several steps to ensure that
they are moving in the right path. Therefore, some of the things that the college can do in order
to increase students satisfaction are:

Students should be given the freedom to choose the method of doing their assignment i.e.
between electronic assignment and handwritten assignment.

Submission deadline of assignments should be increased depending upon the situation or

the scenario.

The computer laboratory at the college premises should be opened till late so as to
facilitate those students who dont have any backup at their home.

The generator backup at the college could be made more consistent and reliable so that
the students can rely on it.

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Reference

Cooper, Donald R. / Schindler, Pamela S. (2006), Business Research Methods. India:

Tata McGraw- Hill

www.nea.com.np

www.google.com

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Appendix
A Survey Questionnaire
Research problem: Effects of Load shedding on students assignment at Ace?
- Ashish Vaidya
I am student of Ace Institute of management conducting research on Effects of Load sheds on
students assignment at Ace. for academic purpose and the information provided by you will be
valuable for conducting this research.

When do you mostly do your assignment?

Morning Afternoon Night Evening
How much time do you usually devote for your assignment ?
less than a hour an hour 1-2 hours 3 or more hours
Instruction: Please encircle the number that best describes your preference, and that every data
you will provide will be treated with utmost confidentiality.
5 Excellent
4 Good
3 Average
2 Poor

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1 Very Poor

Is hand written assignment an alternative to the electronic assignments?

Yes

No

Do you think that the generator backup at Ace is sufficient to support the timely
submission of assignments?
Yes

No

Do you prefer electronic assignment? (1 being worse and 5 been excellent)

Do you prefer hand written assignment? Please rate accordingly (1 being worse and 5 been
excellent)?
1

Have you missed the submission deadline because of load shedding?

Very rarely Sometimes Quite often

Frequently Never

How much time were you given from date of assignment and due date?
1 day

2-3 days

4-5 days

6-7 days

more than a week

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Do you think the popularity of electronic assignments are decreasing?

Yes No can not say
Demographic Profile
a.

Age ________

b.

Sex
Male ( )

Female ( )

Open ended questions

What should be done to ensure timely submission of assignment?

How do you think that the access of electricity at Ace is affecting the submission of
assignments?

Any feedback you want to share about the research?

Thank you for your valuable time

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