Bhubaneswar: The Odisha Government on Monday issued guidelines for the final year/semester examinations for Under-Graduate (UG) and Post-Graduate (PG) students.
In a notification, the Higher Education Department said timely passing out of 2020-21 final year/final semester UG and PG students has become a cause of concern as their final examinations are yet to be conducted due to continuing COVID-19 pandemic.
Despite an improvement in the pandemic situation, it is likely to remain grim for the next two to three months due to the anticipated third wave. Under these circumstances, there are very bleak chances of the campuses to reopen.
In this context, the following decisions were taken to conduct online examinations for the students as per the following modalities.
—Final year/final semester examinations of the UG and PG students will be held in the month of July/August of 2021 in online mode and the results will be published in the month of August/September of 2021.
—All back paper examinations will be held in online mode by the end of July/August of 2021 for these students as well as already passed out students.
—The date of examination will be decided by the concerned universities/autonomous colleges.
—Students can appear for the said online examination from their home or any place suitable to them. They can also appear for the said examination from any nearby degree college as per their convenience.
—The process/modalities of online examination will be intimated to the students by the concerned universities/autonomous colleges.
—Interactive doubt-clearing classes will be conducted in online mode from mid-July to the end of July 2021.
—To ensure smooth conduct of the online examination, university and college teachers shall be assigned mentoring duty for a group of students. These mentor teachers shall constantly talk to their mentee students through telephone or in any other mode and prepare the students for online
examination.
—Mobile numbers of mentee-students shall not be uploaded on university or college websites as it may cause inconvenience to girl students.
—Decision regarding examination for the students of all other years/semesters shall be decided later.
