Around 2 lakh closing semester college students of undergraduate and postgraduate are anticipated to seem within the Online Open Book Examination (OBE) starting right now at Delhi University. Dean of examination DS Rawat mentioned that the examination department officers held a gathering with the school principals and nodal officers on Sunday to debate the modalities of analysis and outcomes.
“The meeting was held to discuss how to deal with the issues arising. We want to start the evaluation process from Tuesday. Earlier this process used to start late. The paper will be held in two shifts – from 9 am to 12 noon and from 2 pm to 5 pm. “Next day, the officials will allot the exam sheets to the teachers along with the deadline to finish their evaluation. Principals will also be given a list of teachers evaluating sheets so that they can track the progress”, he added.
“The results usually take three months. For courses which have less students, their results may be finalized soon,” he mentioned. DS Rawat additionally mentioned that he additionally instructed principals that they may give “confidential results” to college students in the event that they need to be submitted to overseas universities for admission.
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“Usually, the last date for submission of results in universities is July 31, so if any student needs the result, they can give us the documentary evidence and write to us and we will give them the result,” he mentioned. . The official mentioned that final time no college was accepting the confidential results of a pupil. “The student informed us and I wrote a personal email with my credentials and later the university accepted it,” he mentioned.
The college students who took the examination on Sunday night time obtained an e mail from the dean of examination with the examination tips. Last yr, in the course of the first part of the net open-book examination, college students complained of technical glitches within the submission of reply sheets. However, DS Rawat mentioned that only a few college students confronted technical snag in the course of the examination held in March this yr. In case of low web connectivity or any unexpected technical glitch, college students can submit their scripts after the desired time interval together with documentary proof.
As per the official notification, the utmost time restrict for late submission is 60 minutes. “However, all such cases will be scrutinized by the review committee and evaluation of these answer sheets will be done based on the decision of the review committee. The time of submission of answer sheets will be recorded by the system. Delayed submissions of answer sheets with exact time of submission will be sent to the review committee,” as per DU guidelines.
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A bit of scholars has been demanding the postponement of the examination saying that some college students are battling coronavirus an infection of their households. However, DS Rawat mentioned that he has not obtained any such illustration until Sunday. Rawat mentioned that he had spoken to the principals of 28 faculties and had mentioned that many of the college students have been current in the course of the practicals held final month. “Only two-three students were absent in each college,” he mentioned.
The exams have been postponed twice earlier. They have been supposed to start out from May 15, however have been postponed until June 1 on account of a spike in coronavirus instances throughout the nation. Later, the college had issued a brand new notification stating that the ultimate semester/annual examination will begin from June 7 as an alternative of June 1.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
