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The Mumbai University has framed a new set of guidelines for the examinations of first and second year undergraduate programmes. Colleges are to take responsibility for the entire process.
New rules have been established to make sure that the quality of the first year and the second year exams of the colleges of Mumbai University (MU) is not compromised. Colleges will be required to seek approval from the Mumbai University regarding the pattern of question papers, syllabus, allotment of marks, time table, duration of exams, etc.
According to the new examination guidelines, colleges are also supposed to send a copy of the question papers to the university for getting it scrutinized. The management and academic councils of the Mumbai University have cleared the guidelines that will be governing the conduct of these first and second exams at the college level next year onwards.
A management council member said that all affiliated colleges, except the autonomous colleges, are going to be divided into clusters of 10 each on the basis of their geographical area. In each cluster, one college that will preferably be NAAC accredited will be assigned as the lead college for a duration of five years. The principal of the lead college will be the cluster head and will act as the link between the university and the colleges.
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Each college under these clusters will be required to submit a copy of the question papers, time table, and the qualification of the moderators and examiners to the cluster head. These guidelines for examinations were formulated by the committee of Deans that comprised five members and was lead by Pro-Vice-Chancellor, Mr. R D Kulkarni.
The Mumbai University decided to revert its original system three years after starting the centralized exams for the undergraduate programmes of the first year and second year. Colleges will handle full responsibility from setting the question papers to assessing the answer scripts next year onwards. The entire process will be monitored by the university.
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Colleges will now have to announce the examination schedule at least a month prior to their commencement and they will have to declare the results not later than 30 days from when the last exam is held.
