
UGC shares status report on final-year university exams
Live MintOut of 818 universities, 603 of them have either conducted the examinations or are planning to conduct them, announced University Gants Commission today after receiving responses from universities with regard to conducting final-year or terminal semester examination in the wake of Covid-19 pandemic. Additionally, the Supreme Court said it will hear the pleas of 31 students challenging the latest UGC circular on conducting of the final year examinations in the next two days. “The terminal semester/ final year examinations be conducted by the universities/ institutions by the end of September, 2020 in offline /online/ blended mode," UGC said in a statement. Apart from that, the Delhi High Court today asked the UGC to clarify that can final year examinations by the universities be conducted based on Multiple Choice Questions, open choices, assignments and presentations, instead of long form exams. The high court was hearing a plea challengingDU’s decision to hold Open Book Examination for final year undergraduate courses which will be in long form exams.
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