Exams for traditional courses will be held online at Mumbai University.

  • March 5, 2022, 11:20 a.m.

MUMBAI: Mumbai University will hold the final semester VI exams for all traditional and self-financed undergraduate courses in the online mode. These courses have the highest enrolment in the university. Students, though, will have to take practical exams offline.

Exams for all professional courses such as engineering, law, management, and BEd will be offline as decided earlier.

While several students heaved a sigh of relief, some principals have questioned the decision.

Exams are scheduled to start on April 19.

In a statement released by Vinod Patil, university director, board of examinations and evaluations, said a large number of students are enrolled in the traditional programmes and many rely on the final results to pursue higher studies and jobs. "To announce the results on time, and taking note of the vaccination status of students, the strike of ST buses in rural districts and the fewer students in hostels, the university has decided to hold the exams in the online mode," said Patil.

He added that the practical exams for these students, though, will be held offline.

While the university released the commencement dates for all exams, a detailed schedule will be released soon. Colleges will follow a uniform schedule and question banks will also be given by the university.

The winter exams scheduled for October and November this year will be held offline, the statement added, to give students and colleges enough time for preparation. The final post-graduate exams in traditional courses will be held offline, with 50% descriptive and 50% multiple choice questions. Exams in the university's departments will also be held in an offline mode.

A teacher from a city college said that if a section of outstation students must travel to Mumbai for their practical exams, they might as well write the exams in the offline mode. The teacher asked, adding the fear of a delay in results may have prompted them to take such a decision.

Arvind Luhar, chairman of the board of studies in accountancy, said the university has taken a wise decision as offline exams would have delayed the results indefinitely in the present circumstances. But they should allow colleges to wrap up all undergraduate exams by the end of April, he added. A teacher said paper assessment would have been a challenge for unaided colleges that sacked teachers in the pandemic.

Meanwhile, some of the autonomous colleges have decided to hold all exams offline.

Author : Rajdhani Delhi Representative

Rajdhani delhi representative

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