UGC Guidelines on Examinations and Academic Calendar
UGC issues new calendar for universities session (2019-20)
and Session(2020-21 ).
UGC declare the Examination dates for UG and PG.
The UGC issued new guidelines on Wednesday, in which UGC declare the new academic of 2019-2020 and 2020-21 session. The new academic session for old students will commence from August 1 while for the new students it will be September 1, 2020.The pending terminal and intermediate exams are to be conducted between July and August 2020.The admission for 2020-21 session will be conducted between August 1 to August 31,2020.These are the new Guidelines on Examinations and Academic Calendar in view of COVID-19 for the Universities and colleges issued by the University Grants Commission.
The UGC issued new guidelines on Wednesday, in which UGC declare the new academic of 2019-2020 and 2020-21 session. The new academic session for old students will commence from August 1 while for the new students it will be September 1, 2020.The pending terminal and intermediate exams are to be conducted between July and August 2020.The admission for 2020-21 session will be conducted between August 1 to August 31,2020.These are the new Guidelines on Examinations and Academic Calendar in view of COVID-19 for the Universities and colleges issued by the University Grants Commission.
The UGC declare all these Guidelines based on the recommendations
of the Expert Committee.The guidelines are advisory in nature and each
university may chart out its own plan of action taking into consideration the
issues pertaining to COVID – 19 Pandemic.
ACADEMIC CALENDAR 2019-2020
The following calendar
is suggested for the academic session 2019-2020:
Start of Even Semester
|
01.01.2020
|
Suspension of Classes
|
16.03.2020
|
Continuation of
Teaching-Learning through various modes such as Online Learning / Social Media (WhatsApp/YouTube) /E-mails /
Video Conferencing /Mobile Apps etc.
|
16.03.2020 to
31.05.2020
|
Finalisation of
Dissertation/ Project Work/ E-labs/
Internship Reports/Completion of Syllabus/ Internal Assessment/ Assignment/ Students Placement Drive etc. |
01.06.2020 to 15.06.2020
|
Summer Vacations #
|
16.06.2020 to
30.06.2020
|
Conduct of
Examinations:
(i) Terminal Semester/ Year (ii) Intermediate Semester/Year |
01.07.2020 to
15.07.2020
16.07.2020 to 31.07.2020 |
Evaluation and
Declaration of Result:
(i) Terminal Semester/ Year (ii) Intermediate Semester/ Year |
31.07.2020
14.08.2020 |
Some Important Points for Old
Students:
- · If situation so demands, the universities can
have Summer Vacations for 30 days from 01-06-2020 to 30-06-2020.
- · Admissions to the UG and PG programmes for the session 2020-21 may be completed by 31.08.2020.
- · If necessity arises, provisional admissions may also be made and relevant documents of qualifying examination may be accepted up to30.09.2020.
- ·
In case the situation does not appear to be normal in view of
COVID-19,in order to maintain “social distancing”, safety and health of the
students, grading of the students could be composite
of 50% marks on the basis of the pattern of internal evaluation adopted by the
universities and the remaining 50% marks can be awarded on the basis of
performance in previous semester only (if available).
- · In
the situations where previous semester or previous year marks are not
available,particularly in the first year of annual pattern of examinations, 100% evaluation
may be done on the basis of internal assessments. - · The
students should be informed well in advance (at least one week) about the conduct
of examinations and other related activities.
- · The universities may conduct the practical examinations and Viva-Voce Examinations through Skype or other meeting apps, and in case of intermediate semesters, the practical examinations may be conducted during the ensuing semesters.
Academic Session 2020-21
The Academic Session
2020-21 may commence from 01.8.2020 for old students and from 01.09.2020 for
fresh students.
The following calendar is suggested for the academic session 2020-2021:
The following calendar is suggested for the academic session 2020-2021:
Admission Process
|
01.08.2020 to
31.08.2020
|
Commencement of
Classes
i. Students of 2nd/ 3rd year ii. Fresh batch (First Semester/Year) |
01.08.2020
01.09.2020 |
Conduct of
Examinations
|
01.01.2021 to
25.01.2021
|
Commencement of
Classes for Even Semester
|
27.01.2021
|
Dispersal of Classes
|
25.05.2021
|
Conduct of
Examinations
|
26.05.2021 to
25.06.2021
|
Summer Vacations
|
01.07.2021 to
30.07.2021
|
Commencement of Next
Academic Session
|
02.08.2021
|
Some General Guidelines
1. All the universities may follow a 6-day week pattern to compensate the loss for the remaining session of 2019-20 and the next session 2020-21.
1. All the universities may follow a 6-day week pattern to compensate the loss for the remaining session of 2019-20 and the next session 2020-21.
2. The
universities should prepare e-content/e-lab experiments and upload the same on
their websites.
3. In
view of the importance of “social distancing”, universities may take necessary steps
to ensure that the students are given exposure to laboratory assignments/ practical
experiments through virtual laboratories, sharing of the recorded visuals
of laboratory work and digital resources available for the purpose.
of laboratory work and digital resources available for the purpose.
4. Every
institute should develop virtual classroom and video conferencing facility and
all teaching staff should be trained with the use of the technology.
5. The
universities should strengthen the mechanism of mentor-mentee counseling through
a dedicated portal on university website to impart timely guidance and counseling
to the students. Besides, the faculty advisor and supervisor assigned
to each student should maintain regular communication with the students.
to each student should maintain regular communication with the students.
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