NEW DELHI: Delhi University will hold final year undergraduate online Open Book Examinations (OBE) from August 10-31, the Delhi High Court was informed on Tuesday.
A bench of Justices Hima Kohli and Subramonium Prasad was informed that the students left out of online exams will be given an opportunity to appear in physical examinations, to be held in September.
While the university had informed the court that it would conduct the exams from August 17, the court asked it to reconsider the schedule.
The bench also asked the university to compress it as final year students have to pass the exam and join courses in India or abroad.
The DU counsel agreed to the suggestion and after discussions it was decided that the online OBE will commence from August 10 and conclude on August 31.
It was also decided that the first phase of mock tests would start from July 27 instead of July 31 and the second phase of mock tests will commence from August 1 instead of August 4.
While the purpose of the first mock test was to make students familiarise with the process and the technical aspect, the second mock test would be the real-time test, the university said.
On the schedule of physical examinations and declaration of results, the counsel sought more time.
The court granted liberty to DU to bring out the notification for the revised date sheet of exams on its portal.
It directed the university to file an affidavit detailing the timeline of the date sheet for the left-out students who will appear in the physical exams and also the timeline for results of students who will sit for online OBE exams and listed the matter for further hearing on August 17.
Senior advocate Sachin Dutta and lawyer Mohinder Rupal, representing DU, informed the court that there are 2.7 lakh final year students and 95 per cent have filed the forms for the online exams.
They also told the court that while the fresh examination plan has been worked out for UG courses, the examination plan for the post graduate students will be decided soon.