One of the data mining techniques i.e., classification is an
interesting topic to the researchers as it is accurately and
efficiently classifies the data for knowledge discovery. Decision
trees are so popular because they produce classification rules
that are easy to interpret than other classification methods.
Frequently used decision tree classifiers are studied and the
experiments are conducted to find the best classifier for
prediction of student’s performance in First Year of BA exam.
Decision trees model is successfully identifying the students
who are likely to fail. These students can be considered for
proper counseling so as to improve their result. This finding is a
preliminary research in this area and we think it is a good
starting point for researchers in the region to establish a
research track related to using data mining to enhance
college/university education. This research should be further
enhanced as a future work by considering data from several
other university including private university in other cities in
India and collect more instances to build the model. Other
attributes could also be added to the data set for further
enhancing the generated model. Furthermore, some other
classification models could be tested in this domain.