Anna univ semester exam to be open book

Anna univ semester exam to be open book

Ragu.Raman@timesgroup.com

Chennai:19.04.2021

The semester exams in May for students of Anna University’s four campuses including College of Engineering, Guindy and Madras Institute of Technology, Chromepet will be an open book-type proctored test online.

All students except those in the final year will write the test and will be allowed to refer to course material in physical form as well as on the web. Group discussions will be considered malpractice, the university.

The university had earlier conducted a 60-minute online proctored test with multiple choice based questions. “During that test, students tried to form WhatsApp groups and groups in Telegram to outsmart the online proctored test. Hence, the university has decided to move to descriptive type tests,” sources said.

According to the new format, the question paper will have Part A that will comprise five two-mark questions and Part B which will include five eight-mark questions. One question will be asked from each of the five units and there will be no choices for the Part B section.

“All questions in the exam will be of analytical type with no direct answers from the textbooks or reference books. Students can refer to course material in physical form as well as from the web. However, getting answers from others in any way or form and group discussions will be considered a malpractice,” said a circular from the Centre for Academic Courses at Anna University.

Students can use a maximum of 12 pages for writing the answers. They have to scan and upload answer sheets after completing the exam. The exams will be conducted for a total of 50 marks and will be for 90 minutes.

For the final year students, the end semester exams will be conducted in a multiple choice-based questions pattern as it was conducted earlier. The final year students need to appear for exams immediately so the university will conduct MCQ type exams.

“This decision was taken as a ‘one-time measure’ in view of the Covid-19 pandemic,” the circular said.

A professor from Anna University said that with MCQ-type questions, students will get either one mark or zero. “In the case of descriptive-type questions, the students can at least score minimum marks,” he said. The university will have three sets of question papers and the questions will be jumbled so students will not have the same questions or question paper.