GU cancels third semester exams

GUWAHATI: Gauhati University on Monday cancelled the third semester exams of all undergraduate courses which were scheduled to begin from July 23 following a recent University Grants Commission (UGC) notice.
The students will be promoted as in the earlier semester according to the said UGC guidelines.
The sixth semester undergraduate courses examination will be held in the second part of August, online. “The 60 per cent syllabus will be covered in the final semester examination. Proper instruction will be issued shortly for conduct of practical classes," GU exam controller DJ Choudhury said.
On July 5, GU had informed that the semester-llI exams will be held online tentatively from the last week of July.
Earlier too, the exams, scheduled to be held from May 28, were cancelled because of the Covid second wave.
GU’s announcement of intermediate semester exams came a few days after the release of UGC guidelines on exams and academic calendar for 2021-22. In its guidelines, the UGC said intermediate semester students should be promoted with internal evaluation and previous semester marks. “For intermediate semester/year students, assessment shall be based on internal evaluation and previous semester as suggested in 2020 guidelines,” the UGC said. The UGC has directed universities to conduct exams for final year or end semester students by August 31, online, offline or blended mode, following Covid-19 guidelines.