Banaras Hindu University (BHU) to Conduct its Final Year Exams 2020 Online
Banaras Hindu University (BHU) has announced that it will be conducting the final year exams for the session of 2019-20 online. The final year exams of BHU 2020 will be held in the online mode.
Banaras Hindu University or BHU has released a notification regarding the final year exams of the session of 2019-20. The central university has announced that owing to the situation of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, it has decided to conduct the final year or terminal semester exams for the batch of 2019-20 in the online mode. Further, BHU has not put any restrictions on its students consulting books and other resource materials while writing the exam. The university will also provide provisions for the students who are either unable to sit for these terminal exams online or fail in them.
BHU has decided to organise online exams as an alternative to its usual mode of pen-paper-based examination for grading the students as a one-time measure due to the prevalent COVID-19 pandemic in the country. The varsity has decided to substitute some other components of marking students including practicals, projects, and dissertations with assignments and viva-voce that will be held online.
On its Twitter handle, the Banaras Hindu University announced this development and said that proposal of the Academic Council for conducting the examination of the terminal semester of the academic session of 2019-20 through the system of online open-book has been approved by the Executive Council of the university. Under this, the students of BHU can appear for the exam remotely from their homes.
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The BHU question paper of all theory courses will have eight questions, out of which students will be required to answer any four. A total of 17.5 marks will be allocated to each question. This news was revealed by BHU said in a statement.
The online open book examination of BHU will be held for a duration of four hours which will include the time for downloading the question paper, writing all the answers, and uploading the answer sheets in the designated portal. Apart from that, the university has also allowed an extra time of two hours for the students who come under the category of persons with disabilities (PwD).
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