NASHIK: The Savitribai Phule Pune University’s examination department has clarified that the student will have to give online exams this year too. The varsity is preparing once again to conduct online proctored semester examinations which will start from January-end. The board of exams is awaiting a government circular on the exam guidelines and based on the circular the criteria to conduct the examinations will be announced.
Starting from January-end the exams for backlog will be conducted first. The regular examinations will begin from mid-February, officials at the exam department have stated. In wake of the rising cases of Covid, the state higher education minister Uday Samant announced that colleges will remain shut till February 15 and all the exams that had been scheduled will be conducted through online mode.
The October semester exams of the SPPU had been delayed and had been scheduled in the last week of January. The timetable of the exam will soon be announced. The varsity is awaiting the government circular on the guidelines to be followed while conducting university exams. The institute has begun preparations for online question and answer papers in the same manner, conducted previously.
The exams will be conducted in a proctored manner with audio and video mode on. Before the surge in cases and when the situation was still normal during the first week of December, the SPPU was considering offline exams for final year students while the semesters for the previous year was being considered to be consulted in online mode. Students had shown discontent for offline exams as most of the year the classes were conducted in online mode so they had been demanding for an online examination.
