VTU: Call on exams, academics after talks

VTU: Call on exams, academics after talks

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Bengaluru:10.06.2020

After the department of primary and secondary education, Visvesvaraya Technological University has decided to seek stakeholders’ opinion before taking a call on conduct of exams and other academic matters.

In a virtual meeting with college principals on Tuesday, VTU vice-chancellor Karisiddappa asked affiliated institutions to gather opinion from students, parents and teachers on many issues, including exams, and submit it to the university. Opinion of recruiters, industry experts and educationists will also be taken into consideration. Karisiddappa has said exams will be not conducted without at least 25 hours of physical classes for each course.

Students have been knocking on all doors requesting their exams be scrapped, stating online classes have been irregular. However, the university has denied the charge and quoted a survey to say 85% of the students have digital access and 75% portions have been completed.

Students conduct a survey, say in 63.6% of the cases, colleges didn’t ask students if they had access to gadgets or internet

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[Breaking]All Law Students Except In The Final Semester Will Be Promoted On The Basis Of Marks Received On Previous Years And Internal Marks This Year : BCI

[Breaking]All Law Students Except In The Final Semester Will Be Promoted On The Basis Of Marks Received On Previous Years And Internal Marks This Year : BCI: In view of the ongoing pandemic, the General Council of the Bar Council of India recently issued certain guidelines with regard to conducting of online Examinations by Universities.Final Year...

[Breaking]All Law Students Except In The Final Semester Will Be Promoted On The Basis Of Marks Received On Previous Years And Internal Marks This Year : BCI

[Breaking]All Law Students Except In The Final Semester Will Be Promoted On The Basis Of Marks Received On Previous Years And Internal Marks This Year : BCI 

Radhika Roy

9 Jun 2020 8:42 PM 

In view of the ongoing pandemic, the General Council of the Bar Council of India recently issued certain guidelines with regard to conducting of online Examinations by Universities. 

Final Year Students 

Final year students of 3 Years LL.B and 5 Years LL.B courses may be allowed to appear for online examinations 

Alternatively, for Final year LL.B students as mentioned above, the Universities may adopt any other appropriate method which they feel is adequate to satisfy the requirements of regular examination. Under this system the University may allow students to write a project report/research paper for each paper of final year or they may adopt a full proof method to double the internal marks of the semester exams already held for such year. 3. In case of Final Year LL.B students, who have not cleared all papers of previous years and are required to sit in the supplementary examination, but, who have been promoted to final year, such Final year LL.B students may be allowed to write a project report or appear in online examination with regard to the pending/supplementary papers, so that they could also pass within time. 

Intermediate Semester Students 

All Students, except Final year students, will be promoted on the basis of performance of previous year's marks and marks obtained in the internal examination of the current year. However, it is clarified that after reopening of the colleges/Universities, the Universities shall conduct the end semester examination with respect to the year from which they have been promoted, within a reasonable period of time, though, such promoted students shall continue to study in the year to which they have been promoted, and in case, they are unable to pass/clear any such paper of such end semester exam of the year from which they have been promoted, they shall have to clear the same, before they are granted the degree. In the case of students who have been promoted to the final year as LL.B students, they shall have to pass all papers in order to obtain their degree/s 

Universities must adhere to Covid-19 protocol and ensure that the norm of social distancing is followed in the campus and all class rooms and examination halls are properly sanitized from time to time. The safety and health of the students should not be compromised at any cost. 6. Universities are instructed to maintain the highest academic standards while conducting the examinations.

CM tests negative for Covid, advised to take rest by doctors

CM tests negative for Covid, advised to take rest by doctors

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

New Delhi:10.06.2020

Chief minister Arvind Kejriwal has tested negative for Covid-19. Two days after developing Covid-like symptoms, he underwent the test on Tuesday morning.

“The result of the Covid-19 test is out, and the chief minister has tested negative,” said an official. Kejriwal reported mild fever and sore throat on Sunday afternoon and has since gone into self-isolation.

Since fever and sore throat are among the symptoms of corona infections and Kejriwal has a long medical history of diabetes, one of the comorbidities, the doctors advised him to undergo the test.

The CM is feeling better and his health condition is improving, said an official. “The doctors have advised the chief minister to take proper rest,” he added.

The test result relieved Aam Aadmi Party functionaries and well-wishers of Kejriwal. “Due to the power of prayers of the people, the Covid test of CM has come negative. The CM is working day and night to serve the people of Delhi in this time of crisis. We pray to the God that he recovers fast,” said AAP MP Sushil Gupta.

In Kejriwal’s absence, deputy chief minister Manish Sisodia participated in Tuesday’s meeting of the Delhi Disaster Management Authority chaired by lieutenant governor Anil Baijal to assess the Covid situation in the national capital.

Delhi has been reporting more than 1,000 cases almost daily for the past several days, with its corona tally crossing the 30,000 mark on Tuesday.

Arvind Kejriwal has reported mild fever and sore throat

10L take JEE, NEET practice tests on app

10L take JEE, NEET practice tests on app

Manash.Gohain@timesgroup.com

New Delhi:10.06.2020

In an encouraging development, close to 10 lakh engineering and medical aspirants used the “National Test Abhyas App” to test their preparedness for JEE (Main) and NEET-UG and data reveal a significant 45% are from semi-urban, rural and under served areas and 37% have no access to private coaching.

The results suggest that while there are concerns over post-Covid stress on digitalisation leaving out a section of students, the use of the App showed that online tools can be enabling as well for a large segment with limited access to expensive private coaching. Stranded in their homes, candidates spent over 7 lakh hours between May 19 and June 4, taking the free online practice tests offered by the National Testing Agency (NTA), which conducts the competitive entrance exams.

The big plus of the tests is that not only the candidates get to know their scores, but are provided a detailed analysis of where they went wrong.

‘App really helpful for poor students from rural areas’

The online practice tests provided a detailed analysis of where students went wrong, how much more time they have taken in each section than advisable and are compared to their peers so that they can work on these areas. The approach can be expected to improve the test-taking ability of these candidates.

With the nationwide lockdown, the campus academic activities of coaching institutes as well as regular schools have been disrupted. The HRD ministry launched the practice test mobile application which came in handy for candidates like Lakhan Singh of Rajasthan. “This app is really helpful for JEE aspirants. And mostly for those students who belong to rural area and whose income is not enough,” he said.

The test is not just about answering the questions and getting a score. “Concepts are cleared with the question. I think no other application can be comparable,” said another test-taker, Joshita J.

The app offers a practice test on JEE (Main) and NEETUG every day and a candidate can take as many per choice. At the end of the test, the candidate gets a score card, the questions where she went wrong and an explainer on why it is wrong. The candidate also gets a hand of time management – how much time for a correct and incorrect answer as compared to others.

Based on the first 16 days of data, a total of 9,97,904 candidates have taken the practice tests. Nearly 60% of these are NEET-UG test-takers. UP and Maharashtra have the maximum number of candidates, 1.3 lakh and 1.1 lakh, respectively.

For those who scored 99 percentile and above, for JEE (Main), average time taken for a correct answer is 112 seconds and for NEET-UG, it is 37 seconds. As per the national average, candidates spent maximum time for the mathematics section (67 minutes), while biology (48 minutes) and chemistry (37 minutes for JEE and 48 for NEET) questions were solved well under an hour.

Full report on www.toi.in

No Class X Boards, TN promotes all 9L pupils

A day after drawing flak from opposition parties and the Madras high court over its move to conduct Class X board exams from June 15 amid the pandemic, the Tamil Nadu government on Tuesday cancelled the exams and promoted over nine lakh students. The final marks for Class X students will be based on their performance in quarterly and half-yearly exams and their attendance. No one will fail, however, as a matter of policy.

Full report on www.toi.in

Class XII boards: Parents move court against CBSE’s decision

Class XII boards: Parents move court against CBSE’s decision

New Delhi:10.06.2020

A group of parents on Tuesday moved the Supreme Court against CBSE’s decision to hold the remaining papers of Class XII board exams from July 1 and pleaded the court to direct students be given marks on the basis of internal assessment in view of the Covid-19 pandemic.

Alleging that students would be exposed to the pandemic if they come out of their houses to appear in the examination to be conducted at 15,000 centres across the country, a group of four parents pleaded the apex court to stay the decision.

The petition, filed by advocate Rishi Malhotra, contended that many reputed educational institutions and universities, including Delhi University and IITs, have decided not to conduct any examination and CBSE be also directed to not conduct examination for the remaining papers of Class XII Boards. He said some state boards, including Chhattisgarh, have decided against holding any examination to protect students from being exposed to the deadly virus.

“CBSE’s notification for holding of the remaining examination is discriminatory and arbitrary and that too in the month of July when, as per the AIIMS data, the Covid-19 pandemic would be at its peak.... As done by CBSE in its other 250 schools abroad and various state boards, the examination scheduled to be conducted in July, should be cancelled and marks could be allotted on the basis of internal assessment,” the petition said. TNN