DU postpones open book exams by 10 days

New Delhi, June 27: Delhi University on Saturday postponed the online open book exams for final-year students, which were scheduled to begin from July 1, by 10 days “in view of the prevailing situation of coronavirus pandemic”.

The revised datesheets for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes will be notified on July 3, the university said.

Teachers and students have been opposing the open book exams (OBE) citing issues like absence of study material for many students and lack of internet connectivity in various parts of the country, among others.

“...All concerned are hereby informed that examinations scheduled for all final semester/term/year and ex-students as per date sheet in OBE mode examinations as an alternative mode of examinations in view of coronavirus pandemic adopted as onetime measure for academic session 2019-20 for all streams of UG and PG including SOL and NCWEB stands postponed for ten days in view of the prevailing situation of coronavirus pandemic,” a Delhi University notification stated.

Under the prevailing situation, all concerned stakeholders, especially students, may find it difficult to attend their scheduled activities of examinations, it said.

The new datesheets for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes shall be notified by the university’s examination branch on July 3 and examination will commence from July 10.

Earlier, final-year students of the department of education in Delhi University have written to the vice-chancellor seeking his intervention regarding the conduct of open book examination for end-semester students.

In the letter addressed to DU V-C Yogesh Tyagi, students have pointed out various difficulties that they may face while writing the open book examinations. In contradiction to the “assumptions” the DU administration has about students, they don’t all have good quality camera phones, reliable power supply and devices, the students wrote.

◗ THE NEW datesheets for all undergraduate and postgraduate programmes will be notified by the university’s examination branch on July 3 and examination will commence from July 10