Final-year students of the National University of Juridical Sciences (NUJS) will write their last semester exams sitting at home through an online process as the campus is closed to prevent spread of Covid-19.
The 10th semester exams of the fifth-year students of the five-year LLB course were to start on March 27 and end on April 16.
The exams have been deferred till April 2. “Instead of holding the exams on the campus, in the normal offline process, we will hold them online,” NUJS vice-chancellor N.K. Chakrabarti said.
The state government had announced on Monday that all educational institutions, government as well as private, would remain close till April 15 to prevent spread of the coronavirus.
The same day, Chakrabarti said, the university decided to conduct the exams online from April 2 because most of the final-year students have already got their appointments in various organisations. They are supposed to join work by the end June.
“The marksheets and pass certificates will have to be issued to the final-year students in early June and this won’t be possible if the exams are held after April 15,” the vice-chancellor said.
“In such a situation we can’t delay the exams. So, we have decided to conduct the 10th semester tests of the final-year students online. We have made all the arrangements to conduct the tests online. All possible steps are being taken to ensure that students are not inconvenienced,” Chakrabarti told Metro.
This is the first time the law school will hold semester exams online ever since the institution was set up in 2000, an official said. Teachers at the law school said the question pattern of an online test would be different from the one held offline on the campus.
“The students will write the test sitting at home or at any other place they are comfortable in. They can keep books open while writing the papers. So, questions have to be such that they can’t just copy from books,” a teacher said.
According to a teacher, the students should not face any problem because they are often required to write the internal class tests through an online process.
VC Chakrabarti said the other semester exams have been deferred, too, for the closure of the institution. The exams scheduled for April are likely to be held in June.
