At 11 a.m., students of BA (Hons) Political Science received their paper on Modern Political Philosophy with the header, 'Sample Question Paper for Mock Test.' The questions came from a mock test paper they had received earlier.

Troubles continued with the Delhi University Online Open Book Examination (OBE) on Friday, with undergraduate political science students initially receiving the wrong question paper. Students who did not know the correct paper to be put up later submitted reply scripts for the wrong paper.

Students received question papers in two ways — half an hour before the exam, via a link to their email address, and at the beginning of their exam on the DU OBE portal.

At 11 a.m., students of BA (Hons) Political Science received their paper on Modern Political Philosophy with the header, 'Sample Question Paper for Mock Test.' The questions came from a mock test paper they had received earlier.

“There’s always confusion about when to start writing as the question paper comes twice, half an hour apart. We were all surprised when we saw the paper. Our teachers told us to wait for it to be uploaded on the OBE portal. So we waited till 11.30, but the same paper appeared there as well. So we started attempting it. At 12.15 pm, 45 minutes into the exam, I found out through the class WhatsApp group that a different paper had been uploaded on the portal and that was the correct one. We were not alerted to this change via emails; it looks like we are expected to keep checking our phones during the exam. I hurriedly left the first question paper and tried to adapt whatever I had written to the new questions,” said a student of Kalindi College.

Head of DU 's computer centre Sanjeev Singh said this was not a technical error: "I don't know what went wrong. This was not an error on the technical side. What we upload depends on what is sent to us. "Vinay Gupta, Dean, did not respond to calls and messages.

While the students were given an additional half an hour to complete the exam, some of them did not find out about the change until it was too late. A student at the Hindu College said, "I was concentrating entirely on my exam. I finished it at 2.30, scanned my sheets and uploaded them, and only after that I checked WhatsApp and saw messages that a new question paper had been put up. I am extremely tense and in touch with my teachers.’

Nodal officers from different colleges have written to DU asking that the problems be addressed. "The wrong paper was replaced on the site, but the students seem to have lost time and some were not aware of it. Several colleges have written to the authorities about this; I 'm sure the matter will be looked at, "said Reetu Sharma, the nodal of OBE at Ramjas College.