Online Final Semester Examinations written at home for engineering students
Posted on: 09/Sep/2020 11:41:23 AM
Anna University has announced that the final semester examinations for the engineering students will be conducted online from 22nd September.
The University Grants Commission (UGC) had already announced that the final semester examinations for the engineering students from colleges and universities will definitely be conducted and has also released clear-cut guidelines for organising the same.
Subsequently, 31 students from different universities in the country filed a petition in the Supreme Court against the UGC’s above order.
After taking up this petition for enquiry, the Supreme Court gave the verdict: |It is not possible to cancel the final semester examinations conducted by the colleges and universities. So, there are no blocks for conducting the final semester examinations. Further, please do not declare the students as passé without conducting the final semester examinations.” The case was thus closed!
In this scenario, Anna University has announced that the final semester examinations will be conducted for the engineering students online. A notification released in this regard by the Anna University Examinations Regulations Official Venkatesan mentions:
The Final semester examinations and the semester examinations for the graduate and postgraduate engineering students who studied in the academic year 2019-20 will be conducted from 22nd September online.
For the students to write the online examinations from their residences, they must have desktop computers or laptop computers, smartphones, or tablet, Further, they must have internet and camera facility.
The question/answer sheets will in ‘objective’ mode. Arrangements will be made for the students to get trained in this method.
The guidelines for the online examinations will be released before the organisation of the training examinations to be conducted.
The Dates and other details will be announced shortly at the official website.
Anna University has obtained permission to conduct the online examinations from the concerned authority.’
