Rabindra Bharati University decided on Monday that the students appearing in the end semester exams would have half an hour before each day’s test to download the questions and will have to upload the answer scripts immediately after the exam ends.

RBU, which had last week decided to hold open-book tests and allow students 24 hours to upload answers, has changed its decision following a UGC message to Calcutta University that examinees could not be given more than half an hour to download questions and upload answers.

Although RBU did not receive any letter from the UGC, vice-chancellor Sabyasachi Basu Raychaudhury said they had decided to tweak their decision.

“We will follow what has been advised by the UGC,” Basu Raychaudhury said.