Delhi University Final Year Exams 2020 Begin; Important instructions students must know

Delhi University Online Open Book Exam begins today! Read further to know the set of instructions laid down by the University for students. 

Delhi University Final Year Examinations 2020 in online open-book format is all set to begin from today, i.e. August 10, 2020. After facing a lot of resistance and criticism, the varsity is finally given permission to carry on with its plan to conduct online OBE examinations from today under strict guidelines. The University of Delhi released a set of guidelines for instructions for students based on the suggestions as well as Court ordered mandates.

The examination started at 11:30 am for most of the undergraduate courses. For post-graduate courses, the examination was slotted to begin from 9:30 am. All students are advised to check the same on the Date Sheet available on the du.ac.in website. 

DU OBE Final Year Exams 2020: Important Instructions

1. Three hours will be given to the students to complete the paper – an additional one hour would be provided to the students for downloading, uploading, scanning and emailing the answer sheets.
2. PwD category students would be provided with a total of 6 hours – which includes the extra time granted for the category plus one additional hour for downloading and uploading the answer sheets.
3. Students can submit the answer sheet in the form of a photo or PDF Format of a maximum of 7 MB file size
4. Answer sheet can be scanned page by page or question wise and uploaded on the portal
5. Students can also convert the answer sheets in PDF either question wise or as one document and email the same to the respective college, department or faculty. Students may also email the answer sheets on the obescript@exam.du.ac.inmail id. Remember – you can mail either to all the email ids or the single central email address provided.
6. While sending an Email, students must write their roll number, unique paper code (UPC), date of the examination in dd/mm/yyyy format in the Subject ex. If your roll number is 12345, UPC is XYZ122 and date is today then your email subject would be 12345-XYZ123-10/08/2020.
7. In the mail body, students are required to mention

• Student Name
• Examination Roll Number
• Name of the Programme
• Unique Paper Code (UPC)
• Title of the Paper (attempted)
• Name of the College
• Semester
• Date and Time of Examination: dd/mm/yy, Hrs: mm

8. Students who upload directly on the portal would get an acknowledgment receipt – students who send their answer sheets to central email address would get an auto-generated mail confirming receipt of the answer sheet

The list of Nodal persons along with contact details and email addresses of colleges, departments/faculties have already been notified and the same are available on the university website link provided here.

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