TU BCA Project Report Format: Project I, II, III and the Internship Report
6 October 2026 · 10 min read
TU BCA students write a project report almost every year, and searches for “BCA 4th sem project report format” and “BCA 6th sem project report format” suggest many are unsure which rules apply. Under the BCA curriculum most current students are on, which is the 2019 structure from the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (FOHSS), there are four courses. Project I is in the fourth semester, Project II in the sixth, the Internship in the seventh and Project III in the eighth. The curriculum is detailed for some of them and almost silent on others. This guide sets out what it actually says.
A note on the new curriculum: FOHSS published a BCA 2025 curriculum in November 2025 with renumbered courses: Project-I (BCA 256, IV semester), Project-II (BCA 306, V), Project-III (BCA 356, VI), Project-IV (BCA 404, VII) and an Internship (BCA 452, VIII). So far it contains only first-year syllabi, with no project or internship details and no stated intake batch. If you joined recently, confirm with your college which curriculum you are on. Everything below is the 2019 curriculum.
Project I (fourth semester)
Course: CAPJ256 in the curriculum's structure table, shown as CACS256 on the course page. 2 credits, 4 practical hours a week.
Team: individual, or pairs.
Timeline: proposal defence within 20 days of the first class, midterm in week 12, viva in the last week.
Marks: 80 internal and 20 external. The proposal is 10%, work done 50%, documentation 20%, and the viva 20% with an external examiner.
Report format: the curriculum says the report must follow “the standard format” but does not define it anywhere.
Project II (sixth semester)
CAPJ356 is a 2-credit course. Its syllabus lists teaching units, including documentation guidance on tables, figures, equations, references and the abstract. It gives no marks split, team size, chapter list or referencing style. That is why “BCA 6th sem project report format” has no single official answer. Your college sets it.
Without a prescribed format, the Project III structure below, scaled down, is a sensible default. Ask your supervisor before you write, because the choice belongs to your college, not the curriculum.
Internship (seventh semester)
Course: CAIN403, 3 credits. At least eight weeks, starting within the first three to four weeks of the semester. Each student writes an individual report.
Supervision: a college supervisor takes at most five students, alongside a mentor at the organisation.
Timeline: proposal after week 2 of the internship, midterm in week 12, then the final defence.
Marks: proposal 5; midterm 75 (head of department 5, supervisor 35, mentor 35, with the mentor's marks sent confidentially); final defence 20, with an external examiner. You must pass the internal 80 and the external 20 separately.
Front matter: mentor's recommendation, supervisor's recommendation, examiners' approval, acknowledgement, abstract or executive summary, table of contents and lists.
Chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Introduction to the Organisation; (3) Background Study and Literature Review; (4) Internship Activities — your roles, a weekly log, the projects and tasks; (5) Conclusion and Learning Outcomes.
Referencing: APA.
Project III (eighth semester)
Course: CAPJ452 in the structure table (shown as CACS452 on the course page). 6 credits, the largest project in the degree.
Team: at most two students. The curriculum says the project must go beyond basic CRUD, so a plain record-keeping system will not do.
Marks: proposal 10, assessed by the research committee; midterm 70 (supervisor 60, internal examiner 10); external 20.
Chapters: (1) Introduction; (2) Background Study and Literature Review; (3) System Analysis and Design; (4) Implementation and Testing; (5) Conclusion and Future Recommendations.
Referencing: IEEE, unlike the internship.
Page layout and binding (Internship and Project III)
A4; margins 1 inch top, bottom and right, 1.25 inches left.
Times New Roman 12, justified, 1.5 line spacing. Headings bold at 16, 14 and 12 point by level.
Captions bold and centred at 12 point: figure captions below the figure, table captions above the table.
Page numbers at the bottom centre: roman numerals for the front matter, arabic from Chapter 1.
Three copies, black binding with gold lettering. A signed copy goes to the FOHSS Dean's Office.
These layout rules are stated for the Internship and Project III. For Project I and II, using the same layout is the safest choice unless your college gives a different one.
IEEE or APA: the mistake that costs easy marks
Students who write the internship report straight after a project, or the reverse, often carry the wrong referencing style across. Projects use IEEE: numbered citations in square brackets, with the reference list in citation order. The internship uses APA: author and year in the text, with the list in alphabetical order. Mixing them within one report, or using the wrong one for the course, is a visible error on the first page an examiner checks.
What examiners look for in a BCA report
Diagrams that match the code. A use-case or ER diagram that describes features the system does not have is the most common viva problem.
Real test cases, with input, expected result, actual result and status, not a sentence saying “the system was tested”.
A literature review that compares existing systems and states what yours does differently.
For the internship, a weekly log and Chapter 4 that show work you actually did, not a description of the company's products.
Screenshots that are labelled and referred to in the text.
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