College managements wary as Anna University set to hold offline exams in December

It seems the decision has not gone down well with college managements and teachers. Principals say students not prepared to take exams in the physical mode. 

As  per a report published in The Hindu, Anna  University has announced that the end-semester exams of  undergraduate  and postgraduate engineering students will  be  held in the offline mode in  the  third week of December. However,  it seems that the decision has not gone down well with college  managements and teachers. Principals have  said that the  students are not  prepared  to take  exams  in the physical mode.  They  have  been struggling to write long form answers with pen and paper. 

The report said, “Students were used to the 90-minute multiple choice question exams and even though the students in the third semester were given an open book exam, it was more like they were copying the answers. Engineering subjects necessitate a lot of drawing and now students have to write full answers, with sketches and figures. Initially, they struggled a lot,” said A Ramesh, Principal of Chennai Institute of Technology. But the institution has ensured that students write offline exams as they have since been trained for such exams, he said. 

Colleges in border areas are a harried lot. As the Tamil Nadu government has not allowed inter-state bus service due to the COVID-19 pandemic, students from the neighbouring states will have to face trouble in commuting to the state, they say.  

“It may not be suitable to revert to offline mode in the odd semester. Students struggle to cope with mathematics. Also, the university has not specified the pattern — would it be multiple choice questions or open book or conventional exams. Would it be proctored? The controller of examination and the registrar should clarify our doubts,” says the principal of a college in Coimbatore. 

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