COVID-19 Impact: No year-end exam at some IITs, DU plans online open-book exam

Many premier institutes around the country have decided to either scrap the year-end exams or to hold online exams to ensure students do not suffer. Read below to know more.

With the number of coronavirus cases rising in the country, the uncertainty over how and when educational institutions will reopen is also increasing. Keeping that in mind, many universities and premier engineering schools have ditched the year-end exams to make sure that graduating students do no lose placement offers.

Several Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in the country including IIT-Bombay, IIT-Kharagpur and IIT-Kanpur and other universities like Hyderabad Central University (HCU), have decided to evaluate its final-year students based on their performance in mid-semester examinations and other forms of continuous assessment.

Meanwhile,  Delhi University, Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), Aligarh Muslim University, IIT-Delhi, and Jamia Millia Islamia have decided to conduct examinations either through open-book tests or online assignments or hold exams on campus upon reopening.