The North Bengal University (NBU) will conduct the final examinations of undergraduate and postgraduate courses in October this year.

According to varsity officials, they will publish the elaborate exam schedule on September 10. The undergraduate exams will be held from October 1 to 6, while the PG exams will be conducted from October 1 to 8.

“On the basis of the circular issued by the UGC and the verdict of the Supreme Court, it has been decided to conduct exams both online and offline and in an open-book system in October this year. The university will upload the question paper a day before the examination, according to the schedule. Students will have to submit the paper in the following 24 hours either online or offline,” said Debashish Dutta, the controller of examination at the NBU.

He said PG students would have to send their papers to the departmental email while the UG examinees would have to mail the papers to their respective colleges. UG students, who want to appear the exams offline, will have to collect the question paper and the first page of the answer sheet from their own colleges.

The PG students, who will appear offline, will have to collect the question paper from their nearest college and can submit the paper to the same place. An acknowledgement receipt will be issued after submission of the papers.

As students cannot enter the colleges because of the Covid-19 pandemic, those appearing offline will have to send their guardians or any other authorised person to the colleges to collect the question papers along with a photocopy of the admit card. Also, the answer scripts have to be submitted in the same manner.

“The results of the exams will be published on October 31. On the same day, we will also publish the results of the part 2 exam on the basis of internal assessment,” the controller of examinations said.

Sources said students could write the papers on their own sheets but they had to stitch the first sheet with the answer scripts which they would get on the university website.

“Students will download and print the first sheet of the answer paper where they will have to write their roll number, date of examination, registration number and other details,” the source said.