Maharashtra University Exam News: Only senior university students will take exams, others will be promoted: Maharashtra Minister Uday Samant

MUMBAI: In great relief to more than 16 lakh students at 13 state public universities, the state government declared on Friday that freshmen and sophomores will be promoted the following year based on their past performances. However, for the remaining eight seniors, final semester exams will be held July 1-30 at all universities. The decision will be reviewed around June 20 considering the prevailing Covid-19 conditions in the state. The announcement was made by the Minister of Higher and Technical Education Uday Samant, after consulting with the Prime Minister and the State Governor.

To promote students to next year, a 50-50% grading formula will be used, where 50% will be based on student performance in previous years and 50% will be based on performance in the year Current (including internal assessment) Freshmen and sophomores who will not be happy with their grades will have an opportunity to improve their grade later. Students who fail after applying this grading pattern will also be promoted to the next year and will be given the opportunity to delete all documents in the new period. Students with ATKT (with permission to keep the term) will also be promoted to next year, but will have to clean up the documents within 120 days of the new term.

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Samant said that students in the senior year should not be discouraged by the decision. “Our decision to take the senior exams was based on the UGC guidelines. But if the blockade continues and the Covid-19 cases continue to escalate, we will review the situation on June 20,” said Samant, stressing that the exams will be It will take place only during the final semester of the last year of all undergraduate and graduate courses. The same marking format and exams will be applicable to all autonomous institutions as well. “For the final year exams, universities will have to follow the rules of social distancing, they may have to take exams of 50 points instead of 100, or even take an exam for two hours instead of three. All these modalities will be solved ” he said.

For seniors’ internships, the government has suggested marking students based on their online magazine and oral exam submissions. The 45-day lockout period will be considered (as deemed to have attended) when marking attendance for students.

A committee has been formed to attend the CET exams for the UG and PG courses. The committee report will be presented to eight parents. CET for UG courses will be held between July 1 and 15, according to UGV guidelines, and for PG courses will be held between July 26 and 30.

Smaller universities like the University of Gondwana, which are located in green areas, can take all exams. The state government will finally call him. SNDT Women’s University, which has affiliated universities in other states, such as Gujarat, will conduct exams taking into account the prevailing conditions in those states as well.

Universities have been asked to set up facilitation centers and counseling centers in all districts to help students.