Delhi University began its second round of open-book exams on Saturday, December 1, 2020, marred by glitches for a few groups of students.
Delhi University is conducting the second round of exams for students who attended classes completely in online mode from August 10.
This time, DU chose to streamline the examination process which is why students could only use the university portal for downloading question papers and uploading answer sheets. Despite this, many students complained on Sunday of being unable to download their questions from the exam portal.
Earlier, the DU open book exams were held in August 2020 with students facing technical glitches in a row. The last time, students received question papers via email and were allowed to send their answer sheets through email or upload them in the university's exam portal.
BA (Honours) Hindi Journalism and Mass Communication students of Bhim Rao Ambedkar College did not find any question paper on the portal. The students had an exam on radio production paper on Saturday at 9:30 AM. However, they logged in to find there was no exam scheduled for the date.
After waiting for 30 minutes, students informed the college, when they sent the question papers through Whatsapp at 10:13 AM. Even after this, there were no updates on the portal for uploading answer sheets. Ultimately students had to send emails to the college attaching their answer sheets.
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Speaking on this, Ashutosh Kumar, Nodal Officer for exams at Centre for Vocational Studies said, similar issues were faced by other students. Students from 6 vocational courses had to appear in a common paper today but students of one program received the question paper.
He added, “I must have received around 200 calls from panicked students and parents. Since time was passing by and the portal was not being updated, we arranged for students who had received the common question paper to share it with the others on Whatsapp.”
As such students did not receive question papers, no submission option appeared on the portal. Following this, more than 500 students emailed their answer sheets, sorting through which will be another administrative challenge.
Despite all these discomforts, D S Rawat, Dean (Examinations) said the exams were smoothly conducted. He stated, “There were some issues with a few papers because exams with old unique paper codes and new unique paper codes were happening together. The issues were sorted out and the students were given the required extra time.”
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