Panjab University students ask varsity to hold online exams
The students said they stand on online exams for online classes, offline exams for offline classes. The teaching for the current semester was held online at PU due to the pandemic and semester exams are scheduled to start in December.
Several students have come forward urging the Panjab University to not hold semester exams in physical mode and conduct them online instead. Panjab University had earlier announced that it is planning to conduct the upcoming semester exams in offline mode. However, students have now said that since the teaching for the current semester was conducted in the online mode, the semester exams should also be conducted online.
A day after the university announced that they were preparing to hold the semester exam in the offline mode, members of the Punjab Students Union (PSU-Lalkaar) on Tuesday submitted a memorandum to the university urging them to hold the exams in online mode. The students said that they are demanding online exams for online classes and offline exams for offline classes. It must be noted that the teaching for the ongoing semester was conducted online owing to the COVID-19.
The students said they stand on online exams for online classes, offline exams for offline classes. The teaching for the current semester was held online at PU due to the pandemic and semester exams are scheduled to start in December. The members of the PSU-Lalkaar also suggested that the university should either conduct at least 30 days of offline teaching before the exams if they wanted to take offline exams.
Students associated with the Student Organisation of India (SOI) also wrote to the university on Monday regarding the mode of upcoming semester exams. They requested the university to hold the semester exams in online mode.
“With teaching conducted online, conducting offline exams appears to be unfair to the students who have been taught in online mode for the last one year,” they wrote.
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