K’taka govt says exams only for final year of UG and PG

K’taka govt says exams only for final year of UG and PG

Others Will Be Rated On Last Year’s Marks, IA

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Bengaluru: 11.07.2020

The Karnataka government has decided to conduct exams only for the final year or semester of graduation, post-graduation and diploma courses before September-end, and promote all students of junior years and earlier semesters based on their internal assessment and marks of the previous semester/year exam.

The decision of the higher education department is applicable to all courses, including engineering and diploma for the 2019-20 academic year but not medical courses like MBBS and BDS which come under a separate department. The state government’s order does not apply to deemed universities which come under Union ministry of human resources.

Students of non-final year/semester, or of intermediate year/semester as the government order describes them, will be assessed based on a comprehensive evaluation scheme — taking into account internal assessment and marks of previous year/ semester exam in a 50:50 ratio. Students in their first semester/year will be evaluated entirely on the basis of internal assessment.

“If students want to improve their scores, provision will be made for them to appear for examinations during the next semester and students who fail to succeed in the comprehensive evaluation process shall face examinations for respective subjects in the next semester. Backlog subjects can be carried over as well,” higher education minister CN Ashwath Narayan said on Friday.

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Practical exams can be held via apps

The scheme of carry-forward for subjects in which the student has failed will be allowed for the current academic year and every student will be promoted to the next semester. However, they should clear the exam whenever it is held next.

The exam for final-year students can be online/offline or in a blended mode. Conducting classes before the exams to cover the remaining syllabus is optional. Final-year students with backlog should be compulsorily evaluated by conducting exams (online/offline/blended) as per feasibility and suitability, the order says.

In case a final semester student is unable to attend the exam for whatever reason, s/he will be allowed to appear in the next exam, which will be held at a feasible time. For considering the minimum percentage of attendance, the lockdown period will be treated as “deemed to be attended”.

Universities can conduct practical exams and vivas through Skype or other meeting apps. In case of intermediate semesters, practical exams can be conducted during the ensuing semesters. The institutes can adopt appropriate strategies for projects and dissertations. Reviewbased/secondary data based projects or software-driven projects can replace laboratory-based experiments and field survey based assignments.

The government has taken this decision after consulting educationists and university VCs and taking into consideration students’ health, wellbeing and future, the minister said.

RGUHS PG exams to begin on Tuesday

RGUHS will hold finalyear PG exams for medical, dental and Ayush courses from July 14. “Arrangements have been made. Students have been called back, their quarantine period is over. First-year paper in MDS is optional...MBBS exams have been tentatively scheduled for August 25. It depends on the situation as the number of students is huge,” said RGUHS VC Dr Sachidanand.