RGPV students to write online exam from Jul 7

RGPV students to write online exam from Jul 7

Ramendra.Singh@timesgroup.com

Bhopal:  21.06.2020

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, engineering students across Madhya Pradesh will write online exams from their homes for the first time. A six-member committee headed by RGPV vice chancellor Sunil Kumar has decided to hold online exams for final semester from July 7 and the results would be declared before July 30. The university has sent the recommendations to the state government for its approval and it will be also put in the next executive council meeting on June 23.

The biggest challenge for RGPV is how to keep tabs on students using unfair means during online exams.

RGPV is the engineering university that holds exams for all technical courses in the state.

TOI in its June 19 edition had carried a story ‘RGPV plans to hold online exams for the final year students’. Instead of a three-hour exam, it will be two -hour test.

As per the recommendations of the committee, the online exams will only be for students of bachelor of engineering (BE) and bachelor of pharmacy (BPharma).

RGPV is all prepared to hold the online theory exams from July 7 to July 15, while practical exams will be organised from July 16 to July 22. Students will be given the weightage of 50% of the semester grade point average (SGPS), based on their seventh semester.

It has also been recommended that at least two mock tests should be organised before the final exams to help students get familiarise with the online test process. The platform to be used for the exam should be compatible with desktop, laptop, tablet and smartphones. Only one question should appear on the screen at a time during the exam.

Sources said that specific time could be decided for the students to attempt each question. For keeping tabs on the students attempting unfair means during the exam, it has been decided to record each student. However, the committee has not made any specific recommendation on how to record each student.

Issuing the guidelines, RGPV stated that each paper will be of two hours and questions will be of multiple choice. Students will not be given a revaluation facility for the online exam. Those students who are not able to appear in the July exam, will be given another opportunity to appear for the same in the future.