University to conduct final year exams; 1st, 2nd year students to be promoted on internal assessment
Union Human Resource Development Minister Ramesh Pokhriyal announced that the universities will be conducting only the final year examination this year. First and second year students will be promoted will not be sitting for an exam but will be promoted based on internal assessments, reports Times of India . The minister conveyed the decision to heads of more than 45,000 higher educational institutes during a live webinar on Thursday. The report said that the heads of institutions welcomed the decision. Regarding the assessment for 1st and 2nd year students, 50% of weightage will be given to previous exams and 50% of weightage will be given to internal assessment of the current semester, adds the TOI report. For students who are in the first semester, 50% assessment will be done based on the previous academic record. As per the UGC guidelines, final year exam is scheduled to be conducted in July. The HRD minister said that the final year exam is slated to be conducted in July. However