UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

Ref. No./Dean(Exams.)/2021/1937
Dated: 23.04.2021
NOTIFICATION

Subject: Guidelines/policies related with conduct of Open Book Examinations

(OBE) remotely for final semester/term/year students for all PG
programmes including students registered with NCWEB for PG
courses in view of the COVID-19 pandemic as one time measure for
the academic session 2020-2021.

1. This is in continuation of the Notification issued on 19.04.2021 (The

Notification is available on the website of the University of Delhi i.e.
www.du.ac.in).

2. All Post Graduate and Professional Program Examinations shall be conducted by

the respective Faculty/Department/Centre.

3. The examinations of final semester/term/year shall begin as per the datesheet

notified separately by the respective departments, centre and faculty for all PG
programmes in regular mode as registered with the departments as well as for
those registered with NCWEB. No separate information shall be sent to the
students by the examination branch in this regard.

4. For Ex-students and the regular students applying for improvement of their
performance:

i) The Ex-students shall follow the schedule/datesheet of examinations

as per their year of examination and the span period as applicable as
per the scheme of examination.

ii) The final year students who have backlog i.e. ER (Essential Repeat)
in their previous semester i.e. II semester shall re-appear for the same
as per the schedule of examinations along with the IV Semester
Examinations.

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 iii) The students who have passed out their final year (IV Semester)
Examinations in the year 2020 can only appear for an improvement in
their IV semester examinations as per the datesheet/schedule and
applicable rules in this regard.

iv) The students who are in the final year (IV semester) can appear for
improvement in papers of II semester only.

5. The Admit Cards shall be available on the University Website before the
commencement of examination. The students shall download/print the same and
produce whenever required by the Faculty/Department/College. Students must
ensure that the information printed on the admit card is correct (like,
Enrollment no, name in Hindi etc) as this information will be used for the
printing of degrees. If there is any mistake students must get it corrected
through their college/Department.

6. The students are advised to keep abreast of any further information/updates by

way of keeping themselves in touch with the concerned
Faculty/Department/Centre/ University and their websites. No separate
information will be provided to the individual student.

7. For disseminating important information to the students, the

Faculty/Department/Centre may use its official e-mail/website/SMS services/
Messaging Apps like WhatsApp etc.

8. Each Faculty/ Department/Centre shall appoint Nodal Officer/s to facilitate

students, and upload the mobile numbers and email ID of the Nodal Officer/s on
its website under intimation to the University with whom students can contact,
in case of any query during the examination days.

9. The respective Faculty/Department/Centre will inform the students well in

advance, its official email id which will be used for in sending question papers to
the students and the official email id on which the students will be required to
upload scanned PDF/JPEG of their answer sheets.

10. The students shall answer the questions on A4 Size papers. All the sheets should
be serially numbered on the top of each page.

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On first page, the students shall write the following details (providing any
other personal information like email ID, Mobile No and Name of the College
will be treated as unfair means and action will be taken as per University
rules):
a. Date and time of examination (DD/MM/YYYY, HRS:Min):
b. Examination Roll Number:
c. Name of the Program i.e. M.A., M.Com., M.Sc. etc:
d. Semester:
e. Unique Paper Code (UPC):
f. Title of the Paper:

11. The duration of the Examination shall be 4 hours. Three hours have been given
to the students for answering the questions, and keeping in mind the time factor
involved in downloading the question papers, scanning the answer sheets in the
PDF/JPEG format and uploading the scanned PDF/JPEG of the same on the
Portal, one hour is kept for these activities.
For students belonging to the Divyaang (PwBD) Category, the duration of each
examination shall be 6 hours (for details see the Notification Ref. No. Dean
(Exams)/1365 dated 14.03.2021).

IMPORTANT: In case of poor internet connectivity/any unforeseen

technical glitches etc., the student is advised to submit his/her script
beyond the specified time period (4 hr) with the documentary evidence to
the email ID of the Nodal Officers of the College/Department. The
maximum time limit for delayed submission is 30 minutes (documentary
evidence of non-submission on the portal must be attached). However, all
such cases (email submission) will be examined by the Review Committee,
and these answer sheets shall be evaluated based on the decision of the
Review and result of such students may be delayed.

It is to mention that the time of submission of answer sheets shall be recorded

by the system. The delayed submissions of answer sheet with exact time of
submission shall be sent to Review Committee.

12. Students shall be required to submit an undertaking of not having used any
unfair means in taking examination. This undertaking will be submitted by the
student at the time of submission of answer sheet. The proforma for the said
undertaking shall be made available to the students before/at the time of
sending question paper.

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13. Students should appear in the examination as per the option filled in the
examination form for the mode of examination i.e. "Physical Mode (From the
Faculty/Department/Centre)" OR "Remote Mode (From Home)" by using ICT
based facilities. Those who have opted the option of writing exam by Physical
mode (From Faculty/Department/Centre), will have the choice of writing it
through Remote Mode (Home) but not the vice-versa. The College will provide
necessary infrastructure in compliance with the MHA, UGC guidelines in view of
COVID-19.

a. Instructions for the students opting the Remote Mode (Home):

(i) The students may write the examination from any location as per
his/her convenience.
(ii) Students shall require laptop/desktop/mobile phone/any other
appropriate device with adequate internet connectivity for accessing e-
mail, downloading question paper, scanning, and sending the answer
sheets on the e-mail provided by the Faculty/Department/Centre.
(iii) Students should scan the answer sheet question wise/consolidated
answer sheet and send the respective PDF/JPEG file to the e-mail id
provided by the Faculty/Department/Centre in a single e-mail. The file
size of each answer should be within the 7 MB limit. Only PDF/JPEG
format without any password will be accepted.
(iv) The students who had opted for Remote Mode (Home) shall not be
permitted to appear through Physical Mode (College).

b. Instructions for the students opting the Physical Mode

(Faculty/Department/ Centre):

(i) The students shall be required to write the examination at their

respective Faculty/Department/Centre according to the seating plan
prescribed by the Faculty/Department/Centre.

(ii) The students shall be provided all the ICT facilities including computer
by the Faculty/Department/Centre for downloading the question
paper, scanning of answer sheets, and sending e-mail of answer sheets
to the e-mail id provided by the Faculty/Department/Centre.

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(iii) The students shall bring the A4 Size Papers for writing the answers.

(iv) The students who have opted Physical Mode

(Faculty/Department/Centre) may appear in Remote Mode (Home) if
he/she desires.

Note:

 All concerned and Students shall be required to follow the official website
of the University of Delhi i.e. www.du.ac.in for notifications/updates
related to the Examinations.

 The above guidelines are valid only for IV Semester for all Postgraduate
(PG) Programs of all streams including NCWEB.

Sd/
Dean (Examinations)