The Delhi University has postponed the undergraduate and postgraduate final year exams.The exams were earlier scheduled to start from May 15 but were postponed to June 1 owing to the spike in coronavirus cases across the country.
The University issued a notification saying, final semester and annual exams will commence from June 7, instead of June 1. The exams will be in the ”open book format” and will be held online, it said.
Dean of Examinations D S Rawat said in a notice “It is hereby notified for information of all the concerned that the final semester/annual examinations May/June 2021 to be commenced from June 1, 2021, are hereby postponed and same shall start from June 7, 2021,“.
It said that accordingly, all “date sheets released for commencement of examinations from May 15, 2021, are hereby withdrawn”. Today we have uploaded them. As a rule, we have to give students time to prepare.
Teachers had been given time till May 13 to prepare and submit question papers, and we are pursuing them. Many of them have submitted (question papers),” he said. Rawat ruled out the possibility of the exams being postponed further.
