For traditional and management courses, the university has set a deadline of December 31 to complete all exams and January 15 for professional courses such as engineering, law and pharmacy. The university issued a circular Wednesday night, detailing the examination process for its affiliated universities.
While first-, second-, and third-year undergraduate (UG) students from the arts, science, and business schools will have to attempt a 60-point assignment with 40 questions (out of 50) in one hour, the course paper pattern Professionals will include question descriptions as well. All professional courses will have a 50% descriptive component on the exam. The duration of the exam varies from an hour and a half for law, architecture and interdisciplinary studies, to two hours for engineering and pharmacy, among others.
While the circular only mentions that the descriptive test will be taken online, it does not specify whether students will have to write the answers on the screen or write them on paper, scan them and upload them to the test portal, said one teacher. But he mentions that the answer sheets will be evaluated by teachers online only from the university’s computer labs, he added. One official said universities can ask students to write the document and load it into software they are using to take exams. All exams will be decentralized and conducted at the university level, with the help of the leading universities in a group. The clustered universities will follow a common schedule and the lead university will ensure that the questionnaires are balanced, include questions of all levels of difficulty (easy, moderate and superior) and that each unit of the study program is covered and given the adequate weight, establishes the directive of the university.
Oral, practical and live exams will begin on December 10 and will be taken on online platforms such as Google Meet, Skype and Zoom and by phone, where necessary. However, not a single university has done physical practices so far. Scores for the internal assessment should be sent to the university by December 24th.
The university will publish a separate schedule for graduate exams, as many of the admissions have yet to begin. The schedule for the first-year professional courses will also be released at a later date as admissions for all professional courses in the state are on hold due to the pending decision on the Maratha fee.
Colleges have been asked to make sure students have the necessary devices to take the exams online. “Students should be informed about the exam mode well in advance. Students who miss the exam for any reason should retry in consultation with the main university,” an official said.
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