GTU students with backlogs to be assessed on MBP

GTU students with backlogs to be assessed on MBP

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Ahmedabad:  09.07.2020

The Gujarat Technological University (GTU) has reiterated its earlier stand to use merit-based progression system (internal marks and past semester results to assess undergraduate students in their final semester having backlogs. The decision will benefit approximately 25,000 students in GTU-affiliated colleges.

“The GTU academic council had decided in the past to evaluate terminal semester undergraduate students on ‘merit-based progression’,” said Navin Sheth, vice-chancellor, GTU, on Wednesday.

The state government had introduced the merit-based progression scheme (MBP) for evaluation of students when exams were not possible in time.

According to the latest University Grants Commission guidelines, students of terminal semesters or finalyear students having backlog should compulsorily be evaluated by conducting examinations in offline or online or blended (online + offline) mode according to feasibility and suitability.

Earlier this month, the GTU had to call off the exams slated from July 2. The decision came at the eleventh hour after the state government announced that the exams for all universities and colleges in the state have been cancelled.

As many as 54,000 students had registered to take the theory exams that were to begin from July 2. GTU had appointed observers and set up 350 exam centres across the state.

UGC recently issued the revised guidelines by which the terminal semester and final-year examinations are to be held by the end of September either on pen and paper, online, or in blended (online and pen & paper) format.

In case a student cannot appear in September, provisions will be made so the candidate can take the exams later, according to the guidelines.

Recently, several states including Rajasthan, Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, and West Bengal had cancelled their exams amid a surge in Covid-19 cases.