Gujarat colleges allowed to hold exams in pen and paper mode: State Education Department

Most universities in the state have already planned to conduct exams in the online mode from July. However, for students who have not opted for online exams, the offline exams will be held.

Gujarat government has allowed colleges across the state to conduct offline exams in July. The exams will be held in pen and paper mode for the final semester students of undergraduate and postgraduate programs. This announcement has been made by the State Education Department recently. 

According to an official notification by the department, since the number of COVID-19 cases has been declining across the state, this permission to conduct offline exams has been given to the colleges. However, whether the colleges decide to conduct them or not has been left to them. 

Most universities in the state have already planned to conduct exams in the online mode from July. However, for students who have not opted for online exams, the offline exams will be held. Due to rising COVID-19 cases in the second wave of the pandemic, the Government of Gujarat had cancelled all university exams for undergraduate programs except for final year students. 

With that announcement, the government also said that the students would be promoted on merit-based progression and without holding exams. But now due to improving circumstances, the government has given permission to colleges to hold offline exams for students. 

Earlier, Gujarat Government has said that it is planning to give more weightage to the  GUJCET 2021 over Class 12 (Science) for admission to engineering and pharmacy courses. The Gujarat Secondary Education Board (GSEB) has earlier released the GUJCET application form 2021. The application form was available online on the official website gujcet.gseb.organd the last date to fill was June 30, 2021.

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