Delhi University has cancelled exams for the second and fourth semester, or first and second-year, students because holding conventional exams during COVID-19 is “not feasible”. First And Second-Year Students will be marked on Previous Semesters, Internal Assessment.
Instead for regular pattern of DU exams , it will adopt an “alternative mode of grading”. Final-year students still need to write the open book exams.
The DU exams notification stated,
“The matter was intensively deliberated in the bodies…based on which it has been decided that as a one-time measure, alternative modes of grading for promotion/results shall be adopted as per composite format for calculating the same for the Intermediate semester/term/year students for academic session 2019-2020 so that students of the university can take their career forward.”
Students enrolled in DU’s School of Open Learning, or SOL, and classes held by the Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board, or NCWEB, will also be similarly graded and promoted. However, final-year students and ex-students will still have to write the online open book exams.
The notification stated,
The grading “could be composite of 50% marks on the basis of the pattern of internal evaluation or assignment” based evaluation adopted by the university / colleges/ faculty/ centre wherever applicable”. The remaining 50% and the marks can be awarded on the basis of performance in just the previous semester, term or year .
Students in an intermediate semester, term or year with no previous record of performance — first-year students, for example — “shall be graded on the basis of 100% assignment based evaluation”.
Read the notification here:
