Visva Bharati University has decided to do away with written exams for final year semester and will instead award 60 per cent marks as the average of two best semester scores and the rest 40 per cent under two other heads in view of the COVID-19 pandemic, officials said.
At a meeting on Friday, the Executive Council of the Central University also decided that 80 per cent of the internal assessment and 20 per cent live by affiliated schools would be carried out for the remaining papers of the school certificate examinations, they said.
An internal assessment of 20% of the full marks of each program will be carried out for the terminal semester examinations of undergraduate and postgraduate courses, which have been resolved by the EC while no written practical tests will be carried out.
The average of the two best semester scores will be given for 60 per cent of the total marks, while the remaining 20 per cent of the marks will be awarded on the basis of the dissertation, project and home assignments which will be sent online by the candidate to the teacher concerned for evaluation, according to a notice issued by the university authorities.
For documents where there is no provision for internal assessment, the assessment of such documents may be made on the basis of the total marks submitted by the head of the department, such as the dissertation/project, work/home assignment.
The EC is the highest decision-making body in the central institution.
Reacting to the notice of the Students Federation of India leader of Visva Bharati, Somnath Sau said: "We were opposed to conducting written exams and opting for an alternative method of evaluation."
He expressed satisfaction that the authorities of Visva Bharati had finally decided to pursue alternative means of assessment in the present situation.
