The study aimed to explore students perception about semester system practices in public sector Universities of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The demographic variables like gender, departments, and semester wise were explored. A structured questionnaire consisting of close ended 40 items developed for five factors i.e., curriculum, syllabus coverage, class regularity, teacher and teaching methods and evaluation processandone open ended question about the drawbacks of semester system practices in 4-year (Hon’s) programs was developed. Mean, percentage, t-test and One Way ANOVA were used as statistical techniques for data analysis. Overall, the views of the students of BS (Hon’s) program were positive about the prevailing semester system practices in the public sector universities. No significant difference was found between the mean scores of male and female students; natural and social sciencedepartments; and students of different semesters of BS (Hons) program about the semester system practices. For open ended question mixed type of viewswere observed for course completion, regularity of the classes, teacher’sfavoritism, lesson plans, content and important aspects of the course.  In semester system courses remained incomplete due to non regularity of the classes by the teachers as perceived by the majority of the students of (Hon’s) program.

Keywords: Annual system; semester system practices; BS (Hons); curriculum; Teaching method