Goa University defers all exams, post-grad tests to be held online

PANAJI: Goa University on Friday deferred all examinations — scheduled to begin from July 1 at the university’s teaching departments and in affiliated colleges — to August 3. The decision was taken after GU’s vice-chancellor and registrar held a virtual meeting with principals of all affiliated colleges.
In a circular issued later on Friday, the university’s registrar, Y V Reddy, said all regular and repeat exams for final year and repeat exams for lower semesters of general stream post-graduate programmes will be conducted online from August 3 onwards. Semester-end assessment for lower semesters of PG programmes have been cancelled.
“Detailed guidelines for online examinations shall be issued subsequently,” Reddy said in the circular.
Sources said the possibility of conducting online exams for undergraduate degree programme is also being explored.
GU, in its circular for undergraduate degree programmes, only said that ‘the mode in which the (undergraduate) examinations are to be conducted from August 3 onwards will be communicated shortly’.
The deferred date to hold examinations is applicable for final year and repeat tests for BA, BSc, BCom and all other programmes that were to begin from July 1, except for tests scheduled under the faculty of medicine.
Earlier, considering the Covid-19 pandemic, Goa University had decided to extend the current academic year 2019-20 for undergraduate and postgraduate students. The new academic year 2020-21 was to begin from August 1. But on Friday, it decided to further extend the date for start of the new academic year to after August 14.
The university has further decided not to hold semester-end assessments for lower semester students of all PG programmes of general education offered by it and affiliated colleges for the current academic year 2019-20. This also applies to the integrated MBA (hospitality, travel and tourism) programme offered at the Goa Business School and integrated MCom programme offered at S S Dempo College of Commerce and Economics in Cujira.
Students of these programmes will be graded on the marks they’ve scored in the intra-semester assessment during the current semester.