IIT Delhi students raise concerns about exams in hybrid mode

Institute officials reject allegation, say there will be one exam whether students appear for it from home or from campus and there is no scope for any biases. 

 A section of students of the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Delhi, have alleged that the administration’s decision to conduct examinations in hybrid mode was not offering a level-playing field.  However, officials of the institute have rejected the allegation and said there would be only one exam whether students appear for it from home or from the campus and there was no scope for any biases. 

As per students, those who have returned to the campus have to report to their departments and appear for exams in the offline mode, while those who have not returned yet have can take exams online, which will create a “non-uniformity”. 

Students start online petition, demand fair policy 

According to an online petition started by IIT students which has over 650 signatures, “Not everyone has onboarded, which means there is a substantial number of people who would still be taking exams from the comfort of their homes. We cannot have this for the same reason we don’t have 50 per cent students taking Joint Entrance Exam (JEE) at home and the rest being called to exam centres. Further, examination environment is important and this disparity in and of itself creates a non-uniformity that is unfair.”  

“We have received the notification of offline majors on a very short notice, by the time most people had either offboarded or booked tickets home. We don’t see why the institute did not plan this earlier and why and how it is fair to ask offboarded students to book expensive tickets on a short notice to travel from all over India and onboard again when they should really be preparing for exams. This, especially when people who didn’t onboard aren’t expected to do the same,” it added. 

Shantanu Roy, Dean, Academics, said, "There is no scope for any biases. As long as students are there on campus, I don’t see a problem in them reporting to classroom and appearing for exams. The exam is same for them and what is unfair in appearing in a classroom environment.” 

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