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UGC: Intermediate Semester Students will be graded based on internal assessment of the present and previous semester. In states where the #COVID-19 situation has normalized, there will be exams in the month of July.

UGC: Terminal Semester Students exams will be held in the month of July.

A #COVID19 cell will be constituted in every university which will be empowered to solve the issues of students related to academic calendar and examinations.

UGC: Guidelines are advisory in nature.
University may chart out its own plan of action taking into consideration the issues pertaining to #COVID19 Pandemic
ensure Social Distancing.

Academic Calendar issued by the UGC.

Continuation of Teaching-Learning through various modes such as Online Learning / Distance Learning etc.- upto 31.05.2020

Finalization of Dissertation/ Project Work etc.: 01.06.2020 to 15.06.2020

Summer Vacations: 16.06.2020 to 30.06.2020

Conduct of Examinations:

(i) Terminal Semester/ Year- 01.07.2020 to 15.07.2020
(ii) Intermediate Semester/Year - 16.07.2020 to 31.07.2020

Evaluation and Declaration of Result:

(i) Terminal Semester/ Year: 31.07.2020
(ii) Intermediate Semester/ Year: 14.08.2020

UGC: The universities should develop a fool-proof plan before the resumption of the session, strictly following the norms of “social distancing” and other required precautions, to avoid any eventuality arising due to #COVID19.

UGC: Admissions to the UG and PG programmes for the session 2020-21 may be completed by 31.08.2020. If necessity arises, provisional admissions may also be made and relevant documents of qualifying examination may be accepted up to 30.09.2020

#Covid19

UGC: The Academic Session 2020-21 may commence from 01.8.2020 for old students and from 01.09.2020 for fresh students as per following schedule-

Admission Process: 01.08.2020 to 31.08.2020

Commencement of Classes

i. Students of 2nd/ 3rd year: 01.08.2020
ii. Fresh batch (First Semester/Year): 01.09.2020

Conduct of Examinations: 01.01.2021 to 25.01.2021

Commencement of Classes for Even Semester: 27.01.2021

Dispersal of Classes: 25.05.2021

Conduct of Examinations:26.05.2021 to 25.06.2021

Summer Vacations: 01.07.2021 to 30.07.2021

Commencement of Next Academic Session: 02.08.2021

UGC: Universities may follow a 6-day week pattern.

Students be given exposure to laboratory assignments/ practical experiments through virtual laboratories, sharing of the recorded visuals of laboratory work and digital resources available for the purpose.

Link provided by MHRD for virtual laboratories to facilitate the students of science/ engineering/ technology streams may also be suitable for such purposes.

Develop virtual classroom and video conferencing facility and all teaching staff should be trained with the use of the technology.

Universities should prepare e-content/e-lab experiments and upload on their websites.

Strengthen the mechanism of mentor-mentee counseling.

Universities may devise a proforma to record the Travel/ Stay history of the staff and students for the period when they were away from the university due to lockdown.

UGC: Faculty should be adequately trained for the use of ICT and online teaching tools, so that they complete about 25% of the syllabus through online teaching and 75% syllabus through face to face teaching.

UGC: In view of the present scenario and future uncertainties-

Universities may adopt/ adapt and implement these Guidelines in a transparent manner by making alterations/ additions/ modifications/ amendments to deal with particular situation(s) in the best interest of students,

....educational institution and the entire education system,

University may adopt alternative modes of admission process, if otherwise legally tenable.

Educational institutions located at places where the Government (Centre/ State) have imposed restrictions on gathering of public, the institutions may plan accordingly.

UGC: In any case, the recommendations shall not cause any restrictions on the guidelines/directions issued by the appropriate Government/competent authority.

Examinations-

Universities may adopt alternative and simplified modes and methods of examinations to complete the process in a shorter period of time.

Universities may adopt efficient and innovative modes of examinations by reducing the time from 3 hours to 2 hours.

Universities may conduct Terminal/Intermediate Semester / Year examinations in offline/online mode, as per their Ordinances/Rules and Regulations, Scheme of Examinations, observing the guidelines of “social distancing” and keeping in view the support system available with them..

...and ensuring fair opportunity to all students.

Terminal semester/ year examinations for PG/ UG courses/ programmes may be conducted by universities as suggested in the academic calendar. The timing of the examination may be considered appropriately by the universities, and ..

...examination may be conducted keeping in mind the guidelines of “social distancing”.

UGC: For intermediate semester/year students, the universities may conduct examinations,after making a comprehensive assessment of their level of preparedness, residential status of the students, status of COVID-19 pandemic spread in different regions / state and other factors.

UGC: In case the situation does not appear to be normal in view of COVID-19, in order to maintain “social distancing”, safety and health of the students, grading of the students could be composite of 50% marks on the basis of the pattern of internal evaluation adopted .....

....by the universities &the remaining 50% marks can be awarded on the basis of performance in previous semester (if available). The internal evaluation can be continuous evaluation, prelims, mid-semester, internal evaluation or whatever name is given for student progression.

UGC: In the situations where previous semester or previous year marks are not available, particularly in the first year of an annual pattern of examinations, 100% evaluation may be done on the basis of internal assessments.

UGC: If the student wishes to improve the grades, he/she may appear in special exams for such subjects during next semester.

UGC: This provision for intermediate semester examinations is only for the current academic session (2019-20) in view of COVID-19 pandemic, while maintaining safety and health of all the stakeholders and sanctity and quality of examinations.

UGC: Period of lockdown may be treated as ‘deemed to be attended’ by all the students/ research scholars. Adopt appropriate strategies to facilitate the UG/ PG students pursuing Projects/ Dissertations.

UGC: Universities may consider assigning review-based/ secondary data-based projects or software-driven projects, instead of laboratory-based experiments or field/ survey-based assignments to these students.

UGC: The universities may conduct the practical examinations and Viva-Voce Examinations through Skype or other meeting apps, and in the case of intermediate semesters, the practical examinations may be conducted during the ensuing semesters.

UGC: The universities may conduct the Ph.D. and M. Phil. Viva -Voce Examinations through Video Conferencing using Google, Skype, Microsoft Technologies or any other reliable and mutually convenient technology.

Extension of six months period to the M.Phil.or Ph.D. students.

UGC: Notwithstanding the above Guidelines regarding the resumption of session, the conduct of examinations and commencement of next academic session, every university/ college has to ensure that it is prepared in all respects to carry out the academic activities following...

.......necessary advisories/guidelines/directions issued by the Central/State Government, MHRD or UGC from time to time to prevent the spread of #Covid19

UGC has communicated these guidelines to all the Universities/Colleges.

#COVID19