Private engineering colleges in Bengal will have the undergraduate final semester exams through a computer-based process to avoid answer scripts and question papers.

Students will have to go to their colleges and use the computer laboratories to write the exams on computers.

The Maulana Abul Kalam Azad University of Technology is developing a software for colleges to conduct the exams. The university will install the software in the computers of its 200-odd colleges.

The new computer-based exam system will expedite the process of evaluation, the university has said.

“The university will take less time to prepare the results as well,” vice-chancellor Saikat Maitra said.

Close to 30,000 students are slated to take the undergraduate final semester exams.

The exams will be held a month after colleges reopen. As of now all educational institutions in the state are closed till June 10.

The university decided not to conduct the exams through a centralised online system to avoid disruption because of connectivity problems.

Some of the colleges are in the districts where Net connectivity is poor.