AMU to Conduct its Final Year UG and PG Examinations 2020 from August 5, 2020

Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) has released a notification stating the dates of final exams for the remaining 30 per cent marks for all the undergraduate and postgraduate students of the university. AMU has declared that it will be conducting the final examinations for all programmes from August 5, 2020. All the exams of AMU will be conducted in the online mode in viva voce formats so as to maintain social distancing norms that are directed by the Health Ministry.

The decision of conducting the final year exams of UG and PG courses of AMU was taken during a consultative meeting of the principals of colleges and polytechnics, the deans of faculties, and other functionaries of the varsity that are headed by the Vice-Chancellor of AMU, Professor Tariq Mansoor. In the meeting, it was also decided that the classes for the academic session 2020 - 20201 will be started online. In mid-March, Aligarh Muslim University had suspended all of its academic activities in the wake of the COVID-19 outbreak in the country, as a preventive measure to contain the spread of the virus.

AMU said that the varsity has already evaluated about 70 per cent marks for the final year examinations of all undergraduate and postgraduate courses for the current session by various means. The University Grants Commission (UGC) has also released a revised notification recently, in which it has asked all the universities and colleges across the country to conduct their final year examinations by the of September.

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Amid the mounting pressure from the teacher and student organisations who are opposing the move of conducting the examinations as the coronavirus affected cases are increasing in the country, on July 23, 2020, the UGC informed that 603 out of a total 818 universities have either conducted their exams or are planning to conduct them soon.

The UGC said that it had approached universities to inform the status of the examinations and how they were planning to conduct them. It received a response from 818 Universities in which there were 121 Deemed Universities, 51 Central Universities,  291 Private Universities, and 355 State Universities. Out of these 818 universities, 603 varsities are either done with the examinations or are planning to conduct them.

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