Prayagraj: Authorities of Uttar Pradesh Rajarshi Tandon Open University (UPRTOU), the lone state open university of Uttar Pradesh, have announced holding exams of final year and final semester students of all degree, diploma and certificate courses in the first week of August.
The examination will be conducted under strict Covid-19 protocol in which around 60,000 candidates from across the state will appear.
Talking to TOI, vice-chancellor Prof Seema Singh said, “We will increase the number of examination centres to ensure proper social distancing norms for the students who would come to appear in the exams.” For the convenience of the students, all papers of a given subject would be included in a single question paper based on multiple choice questions (MCQ).
Students will have to answer in OMR answer sheets provided to them, she added.
The VC said that students of degree and post-graduate courses would get one-and-a-half-hours to answer the questions while the students of diploma and certificate courses would get one hour to do so.
The VC said that besides the final year and final semester students, those promoted last year in first year and first semester or intermediate semesters would also need to appear in the exams this time.
“We have asked all the centres to be transparent in their functioning, especially in terms of conducting the exams and the university will also be transparent in allotting the examination centre for the upcoming exams,” said Prof Singh.
Prof Singh said that the varsity would soon convene the meetings of its examination committee and finalise the examination schedule and other aspects related to the exams.
She said that all students have been provided a final opportunity to complete and submit their assignments before the exams.