AKTU to conduct final year exams in September with MCQ pattern & truncated timings

AKTU will conduct special exams for the students who would not be able to appear for the final-year exams in September.

Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Technical University is all set to begin its final year exams for programmes such as BTech, BPharma, MBA, MTech of its affiliated engineering and management colleges from the first week of September. Vice-chancellor professor Vinay Kumar Pathak confirmed the commencement of the final year exams. Media reports suggest that the students will be given multiple-choice questions (MCQ). VC Professor Vinay Kumar Pathak said,“For the first time final year students’ academic performance will be measured on basis of OMR (Optical Mark Recognition) sheet. It will ensure speedy evaluation so that results could be declared in a quick time. This year there will be no easy type question answer examination.”

He further added, “AKTU will conduct the theory examination in offline mode (pen and paper) in three shifts of two hours instead of usual three hours. All practical/project viva examinations are proposed to be conducted between August 1 and 21.”

The reports state that the university will also conduct the examination of the carryover papers of the final year students along with the regular examinations. The institute will make the admit cards available via online mode.  

The University took these decisions during the academic council meeting held on Monday i.e. July 20. All the institutes having final year students will be self-center for theory examination. Mr Pathak added, “As we have resorted to MCQ and OMR based examination, we have reduced duration of examination to two hours each because it is less time-consuming.”

According to AKTU’s standard practice, the university will appoint external examiners for the project/thesis/practical subjects. These examiners will conduct the viva using online platforms like Zoom, Google Meet or another meeting app. Students who will not be able to appear for these exams would be given an additional attempt. Students who would like to improve their scores will be given one attempt in the next academic year. According to the media reports, students can appear in examination of that subject in the subsequent academic year end semester examination (Even Semester examination 2020-21) to improve their grades.

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