COVID-19 Impact: All pending UG, PG final year exams cancelled in Odisha

The final year semester exams for all undergraduate and postgraduate courses will not be conducted, except for medical courses, the Odisha government announced.

Odisha government has announced that it will not be conducting final semester examinations for students pursuing all undergraduate and postgraduate courses except those who are in medical courses in view of the rising number of coronavirus cases in the country, an official said.

All the examinations in the medical courses will be carried out as per the schedule, the official added.

The examinations for all those students will also cancelled who had more than two back papers in the final semester or final year exams, he said.

While some of the examinations were held before the lockdown, certain theory and practical examinations are pending as the educational institutions are closed due to the coronavirus pandemic crisis.

The decision in this regard was taken at a meeting presided over by Higher Education Minister A K Sahoo through video conferencing and attended by vice-chancellors, principals of autonomous colleges and senior officials of the department, the sources said.

As per the decision, the minister said, universities and autonomous colleges will follow the methodology recommended by University Grants Commission (UGC) for evaluation for final or final semester examination and results should be published by August end.

The students will be given marks following the evaluation methodology, including prescribed weightage for internal assessment and remaining weightage to an average of marks obtained in all previous semesters or years in a particular subject, the minister said.

In case any students feel that the marks awarded to them are not right, then they can apply for writing the examination by November 2020. The revised results in such cases will be published by December 2020, an official of the department said.

This will, however, not applicable to universities and colleges who have already concluded the examination, he said. 

Evaluation of back papers will be done as per proportionate quotient or any other alternate method. The new method will, however, not be applicable for medical courses and all examinations of medical courses will be conducted as per schedule, the official added.

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