Promote LLB students to next year, conduct online exams for final year students: BCI to Universities

All students, except those studying in final years, will be promoted to next year, the Bar Council of India directed the law colleges and universities around the country.

Amid the ongoing coronavirus crisis, the Bar Council of India (BCI) has directed all the universities and colleges in the country to promote all the students, except those in final years, on the basis of performance of previous year’s marks and marks obtained in the internal examination of the current year.

Along with this, the BCI has also asked universities to conduct online examination for final year students of 3 Years LL.B and 5 Years LL.B courses. 

In a notification, released by BCI, it also mentioned that the Universities can adopt any other appropriate method which they feel is adequate to satisfy the requirements of regular examination. Under this system, the University may allow students to write a project report/research paper for each paper of final year or they may adopt a full proof method to
double the internal marks of the semester exams already held for such a year. 

Ultimately, it is up to the university to decide. “For Final year LLB students...the universities may adopt any other appropriate method which they feel is adequate to satisfy the requirements of regular examination," the statement adds. The same policy applies to students in the final year but still has pending or supplementary exams from previous years to write.

The Council further added that students of intermediate semesters who want to improve their scores can sit for the improvement exams to be held later.