The University Grants Commission of India (UGC) issued exam related guidelines and a new academic calendar for the admission on 2021-22. Due to COVID-19 out breaks the Universities are getting confusion what to do and the students are also be worried for their examination. so the issued this guideline. According to this guideline universities have been asked to hold the terminal exam in July and also asked institutions to evaluate students of intermediate semesters based on internal assessment of the present and previous semester. Other details are given below-
The UGC guidelines told to that the states where the COVID-19 situation has normalized, there can be conduct exams in July even for students in intermediate semesters. It has also asked all the universities to constitute a COVID-19 cell that can solves all the doubt of students related to examination, admission and other doubts in schedules.The UGC also told universities to maintain the social distancing as well as issuing the guidelines has left it on the universities also to frame their own policies.
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New academic calendar:
The UGC guidelines retain many of the recommendations, including that of reducing the duration of the exam, six-day weeks, having 50 percent marks as internal assessment and it has reduced the summer break to just 15 days. However, its guidelines say that universities may choose to have a full month of summer vacation if they are able to continue teaching effectively.
Events | Dates |
Start of Even Semester | 1st January 2020 |
Suspension of Classes | 16th March 2020 |
Online Classes Starts | after 16th March 2020 |
Online classes to be continue up to | 31st May 2020 |
Finalisation of Dissertation/ Project Work/ Internship Reports/ E-labs/ Completion of Syllabus/ Internal Assessment/ Assignment/ Students Placement Drive etc | 1st June to 15th June 2020 |
Summer Vacations | 16th June to 30th June 2020 |
Conduct of Examinations:Terminal Semester/ Year Intermediate Semester/Year | on the month of July 2020 |
Results | 2nd weeks of August 2020 |
Admission Schedules for 2020-21:
Events | Dates |
Admission Process | 1st August to 1st September 2020 |
Commencement of Classes Students of 2nd/ 3rd year Fresh batch (First Semester/Year) | !st August to 1st October 2020 |
Exam Dates | 1st January to 24th January 2021 |
Commencement of Classes for Even Semester | 27th January 2021 |
Dispersal of Classes | 25th May 2021 |
Conduct of Examinations | 25th May to 25th June 2021 |
Summer Vacations | month of July |
Commencement of Next Academic Session | 2nd August 2021 |
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