BHU Final Year Exams 2020: Banaras Hindu University to conduct final year exams online
Banaras Hindu University has announced that it will be conducting the final year or terminal semester exams for the 2019-20 session online.
BHU Final year Exams 2020: The Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has announced that owing to the coronavirus situation in the country, the varsity has decided to conduct the final year or terminal semester exams for 2019-20 session online. The University has not put any restrictions on students consulting books and other resource materials while writing the exam. The varsity will also provide provisions for students who fail in these exams or are unable to sit for the terminal exams online.
The BHU online exams have been adopted as an alternative to pen-paper-based examination for grading as a one-time measure due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. The varsity has decided to substitute other components of marking students including projects, dissertations and practicals with assignments and viva-voce held online.
The University on its Twitter handle announced this development and said “Proposal of the Academic Council to conduct the examination of terminal semester of academic session 2019-20 with ONLINE OPEN BOOK EXAMINATION-OBE system #BHU, The Executive Council has approved. Under this, students can take the exam remotely (from their home or any other place).”
The question paper of theory courses will contain eight questions, out of which a student will be required to answer any four. The total marks for each question will be 17.5 mark, the BHU said in a statement.
The online open book examination will be held for a duration of four hours which includes the time for downloading the question paper, writing the answers and uploading the answer sheets in the designated portal. However, the university has allowed an extra two hours for students under a person with disabilities category.
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