Nagpur University Exams 2021: Over 5,000 students miss exam due to login & connectivity issues

Following the complaints regarding the issues, the NU Board of Examination and Evaluation (BOEE) quickly took a decision to conduct a re-exam of all aggrieved examinees.

Nagpur University Exams 2021: After successful conduction of a majority of Nagpur University Semester Exams 2021, NU was again rocked by technical glitches this week that prevented over 5,000 students from appearing in the examinations. The University had scheduled papers of BA, BCom and BSc first semester this week, but a majority of them were marred by complaints from distressed students, who failed to login in the system.
Following the complaints regarding the issues, the NU Board of Examination and Evaluation (BOEE) quickly took a decision to conduct a re-exam of all aggrieved examinees. They, however, need to lodge a written complaint within three days with their respective college principals, who in turn will forward them to the NU Exam Section.

Talking about the situation, BOEE director Prafulla Sable said,“Actually, the issue wasn’t from our side. These students were appearing for the exams for the first time and therefore weren’t familiar with the login system. They made several mistakes while filling up their credentials during login. Many of them, particularly from rural areas, faced connectivity issues. We would give them another chance to appear in papers.”

After receiving multiple complaints, NU once again dispatched the video link prepared by the director detailing steps on how to login for the paper. “I’ve sent it to all principals and also told them to train their students on this aspect. Many students failed to enter captcha, as they weren’t aware of that. Since it was their first paper, they committed mistakes. But today, the same students appeared and they successfully solved the paper. Over 22,000 have enrolled for the BA exams and 14,000 for BSc, which constitutes the largest chunk for our winter-2020 exams,” the BOEE director added.

According to the examinees, they were expecting that the colleges would send them an exam link, instead of the university and kept waiting for it. “In their hall tickets, the name of the subject and online link is mentioned clearly, but they failed to notice it. However, only 5,000 students out of 68,000 who appeared this week had complained, which isn’t a big number. Apprehending these difficulties, we had started our papers with few examinees from May 27 and eventually increased it to 68,000. Earlier, we conducted exams of engineering students, but didn’t face such issues,” Sable said.

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