Exams cancelled for UG & PG students in Karnataka, final-exams to be conducted

Exams cancelled for UG & PG students in Karnataka, final-exams to be conducted

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New Delhi, Updated on Jul 10, 2020 17:16 IST

All intermediate students except for the medical students to be promoted in Karnataka. No relief extended for the final-year University students. 

Karnataka Government cancelled all intermediate exams of university and college in the view of the increasing COVID-19 cases in the state. According to the media reports, Karnataka will conduct graduation, post-graduation exams only for final semester students. All intermediate semester students except for the medical students will be promoted.

All intermediate semester students pursuing a degree (BA, BSc, BCom, etc.), post-graduation courses (MA, MSc., etc.) including engineering & diploma courses will be promoted without exams. However, no relief will be extended to final semester students. Examinations for the final year students would be conducted before the end of September 2020, as per University grants commission (UGC) guidelines. The Governor of Karnataka has also approved the decision. The state that decided not to cancel Karnataka SSLC Board Exams 2020 and Karnataka 2nd PUC Exams 2020, cancelled exams for the intermediate university students.

DyCM & head of VTU Dr Ashwath Narayan said, “Covid-19 has disrupted the education system - classes could not be held on time. Online learning introduced during the lockdown has received good responses and the government promptly tried its best to reach the last person in the chain. Amid these, the Government mulled on conducting offline classes and examinations too, but owing to an increase in the viral spread those thoughts have been dropped and it has been decided to pass & promote all intermediate semester students. Concerned Universities have been intimated to conduct examinations for all the final year/semester students.”

He added, “Intermediate semester students will be assessed based on a comprehensive evaluation scheme with internal assessment marks and previous year’s/semester’s marks considered in a 50:50 ratio. For students in their first semester/year, the evaluation will be completely based on internal assessment marks. If students feel to better their scores, provisions will be made for them to face examinations during the next semester and students who fail to succeed in the comprehensive evaluation process shall face examinations for respective subjects during the next semester. Backlog subjects will be allowed to carry over as well.”

Talking about the rationale behind conducting exams for the final semester, DyCM said,“Final semester exams will be conducted with due consideration given to students’ academic evaluation and their future lives. Academic evaluation forms the core of the higher education system and hence the academic performance of students needs to be considered. Companies too will base their assessments on an individual student’s academic excellence and grades he/she secured. Thus, it would be pushing the students to danger in the future if examinations were not to be conducted now. In this regard, all universities have been informed to prepare themselves and make suitable arrangements for the conduct of final semester examinations.”

The government also decided to conduct online classes for the academic year 20-21 from September 1, 2020, and offline classes from October 1, 2020. All universities and affiliated colleges are asked to make suitable arrangements for the same.

Check the official notification released by the Karnataka Government below:

Karnataka govt notice
Karnataka Govt Notice
Karnataka Govt Notice

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Paramedical frst year students why not promote mam????

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Veera

4 years ago

BEd 1 St sem are also cancelled

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Dharmika gowda

4 years ago

What about first year degree backlogs? Answer please

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Rima Chatterjee

4 years ago

Gnm 1st year exam will be cancelled??

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Chaitra

4 years ago

1 and 2year student Will promote why final year students are not promoted corana cases are increase more in karnataka other states cancel final year exam please student life is important exam is not important please promote all final year student

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Rima Chatterjee

4 years ago

Gnm 1st year exam cancel or not in Karnataka state?