Kabra and Bichkar [15] experimented with 346 first
year students of an engineering college collecting
their demographic data (category, gender etc), past
performance data (SSC or 10th marks, HSC or 10 + 2
exam marks etc.), address and contact number to
predict whether a student will PASS/FAIL or get
promoted(When he fails in 3 theory and 2 practical
subjects). J48 algorithm in WEKA produces a
prediction model with accuracy 60.46 %. The most
important attribute in predicting student’s
performance is found to be HSCCET. The social
attributes like category, parents’ occupation, living