University regular examination new tentative schedule released , all exam to start from 15th march, descriptive questions for final year : sppu

University regular examination new tentative schedule released , all exam to start from 15th march, descriptive questions for final year : sppu

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University regular examination new tentative schedule released , all exam to start from 15th march, descriptive questions for final year : sppu

A special Board of Examinations (BoE) meeting conducted on Tuesday at the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) approved online MCQ (multiple choice examinations) for first-year to final-year students. Exams for second and third-year degree students are expected to start from March 20 while the exams for first-year students enrolled in various courses at SPPU is expected to begin from March 30, confirmed Mahesh Kakade, director, examinations and evaluations, SPPU.

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Pune University Exams 2021 would be conducted in online mode. The examination would be conducted on March 2021 and around 6.5 lakh students to appear.

Savitribai Phule Pune University, SPPU has decided to conduct Pune University Exams 2021 in online mode this year. The exams for the first year to final year students would be conducted in March. This year around 6.5 lakh students is expected to appear for the examination.

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The varsity would conduct the first-year session examination from March 30 onwards and the second and final year examination would be conducted from March 15. Till now 3 lakh students have registered for the examination.

For the past few weeks now, students have been running a social media campaign demanding that exams be conducted in online MCQ format and an official notification of the same be issued by SPPU. Recently, the state government allowed universities to start offline classroom lectures for students from February 15th and, at the same time, declared that universities are being given the power to decide in what format exams would be conducted.

The first and second-year examination will be conducted in 50 marks online MCQ format and the exam duration will be for one hour for each subject. The final year examination would comprise of 70 marks, including 50 marks MCQ and 20 marks descriptive, long-answer format exam. The total exam duration would be 1.5 hours. The final year students are already being assessed internally for 30 marks. 

A few months ago, the university had conducted MCQ-based online examinations but it had come under a lot of criticism. On the one hand, experts said cheating was rampant and students were not taking the tests seriously since it was mainly non-proctored while on the other hand, students complained of technical glitches making them miss exams, incomplete tests and evaluation errors.

Meanwhile, sppu starts online classes for 2nd sem . The first term would begin on January 28 and would end on May 22 and the second term would begin on June 15 and would end on October 1 for all courses under faculties of science and technology, commerce and management, humanities, and interdisciplinary studies.

However this time, these issues will be ironed out, promised SPPU officials.

“This time, there would be intensive proctoring. Also, a sub-committee which has principals and exam experts has been appointed to weigh the various options and modalities for online examinations and evaluations. We will soon issue a circular with further details,” said Kakade.

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