COVID-19 Impact: Kashmir University to promote students to next semester without conducting end-term exams

The Kashmir University has decided to not conduct no end-term examination for the current and previous semesters this year and promote the students based on internal assessment.

In wake of rising coronavirus cases in the country, the Kashmir Univesity has announced that it has decided to promote students based on internal assessment and will not conduct the end-term examination for the present and previous semesters this year.

"In a significant decision, the University of Kashmir, in view of Covid-19 pandemic, has decided that there will be no end-term exams for the current semester and the previous semesters where exams were due during the lockdown period," a spokesman of the varsity said.

Working on the guidelines issued by University Grants Commission, earlier, the university has decided to promote students to the next semester based on the internal assessment, he said.

"The Heads of Departments in consultation with their respective Departmental Committees will decide the mode of internal assessment with a transparent and well-defined scale," he added.

The spokesman said the decision was taken in a special meeting of the advisory-cum-monitoring committee, constituted by the vice-chancellor under the chairmanship of the Dean Academic Affairs.

Earlier, the University had constituted a committee to assess and monitor the online classes, chalk out a strategy or a road map to conduct the examinations, devise the academic calendar under the prevalent conditions, and formulate a plan for admission to various courses for the academic session 2020.

The varsity has decided to continue the online classes of the current semester's until August 15, 2020, and the teachers have been asked to take online classes on regular basis and also carry the internal assessment during the semester in tune with the strategy devised by their respective departments, the spokesman said.

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