Final semester exams for Higher, Technical courses in Haryana to begin from July; Result by August

The final semester exams in higher and technical courses will be conducted in Haryana from July. Read more details below.

Haryana Higher and Technical Education government has announced that it will be conducting the final semester exams for students in July.  All terminal examinations of the final semester in the higher and technical education courses will be conducted from July 1 to 31, the department said.

The mode of examination will be conventional and all norms of social distancing, sanitisation, etc. as notified by the centre and the state government will be followed strictly by all colleges and universities, it said. All universities will declare results by August 7, as per the order by principal secretary of higher education department Ankur Gupta.

"For the students from outside Haryana, the average of all previous examinations may be taken or they can opt either for writing the exam or improvement of grades later on by physical examination, if they haven't taken any exam earlier," Gupta said.

"For intermediate semester examination all students will be promoted to the next semester with 50 per cent weightage of marks of internal assessment or assignment plus 50 per cent weightage of marks in the previous examinations," the order stated.

As per the order, if a university wants to take an exam of such students of the campus departments, they may do so. Those students who have academic arrears may be exempted from examination and are to be promoted to the next semester and reappears are to be carried forward.

For first-year students, only the internal assessment may be calculated for promotion to the next year, according to the order. If practical examinations have not been held in a university, then average of previous practical exams will be taken or 80 per cent average of theory examinations marks of previous semesters, whichever is higher.

"Admissions to university teaching departments will be conducted at individual university level whereas for undergraduate levels and postgraduate levels centralised online admissions for the colleges will be conducted by the Higher Education Department as per past practice," the order said. During examinations, hostels will not be opened for students.