DU Open Book Exams Begin from August 10

DU is conducting an online Open Book Exam (OBE) for the final semester students from August 10, 2020, onward. The exams were earlier scheduled for July but now the exams are being conducted from August 10-31, 2020. Given below are the instructions for DU Open Book Exam 2020.

DU Open Book Exam Instructions 2020

• Students will get three hours to complete a paper- extra 1 hour will be given for downloading, uploading, scanning and emailing the answer sheets
• The answer sheet can be submitted in the form of a photo or PDF format having 7 MB file size maximum
• PwD category of students will be given 6 hours. This also includes the extra time granted for category plus extra 1 hour for downloading and uploading the answer sheet
• The answer sheet can also be converted into PDF either question wise or as a single document and has to be emailed to the respective college, department or facility. Students can also mail the answer sheets on this id- obescript@exam.du.ac.inmail. It can be sent either to all the email ids or the single central email id
• Answer sheet can be scanned page-wise or question-wise and then has to be uploaded on the portal
• In the mail, students have to mention the following- Name, Exam Roll Number, Unique Paper Code, Name of the Programme, Name of the College, Semester, Title of the Paper (Attempted) Date and Time of the Exam in dd/mm/yy format Hrs: mm
• While sending a mail, students have to write their roll number, unique paper code (UPC), date of the exam in dd/mm/yyyy format in the subject. For instance, if your roll number is 12345, UPC is XYZ122 and date is August 10 then the email subject will be 12345-XYZ123-10/08/2020.
• Those who upload directly on the portal will receive an acknowledgement receipt - students who send their answer sheets to the central email address will get an auto-generated mail to confirm the receipt of the answer sheet.

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DU Open Book Exam Admit Card 2020

DU has released the admit cards for the Open Book Examination (OBE) for the students enrolled in PG courses. Students can download the admit card from the official website of DU. The admit card is also available for the students of the School of Open Learning (SOL). If a student faces any issue while downloading the admit card, he/she will have to send a request to the EDP Cell of the university to resolve the issue.

For the open book exam, students will need to download the question paper, refer to the study materials and then send back the answer sheets via email. The assessment will be done in digital mode and as per the departments' discretion and the question paper will be based on the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS). The question papers will be prepared with due consideration for the disabled students. DU had earlier instructed all the stakeholders in the University to conduct revision session via online mode for three days to help students clear their doubts, resolve their queries, etc.

DU Open Book Exam Guidelines

Following are some guidelines for the Open Book Exam

• For the OBE, the online platform is not required entirely as only limited access to the internet and hardware is needed to download the question paper and for uploading the answer sheet after completing the exam.

• The final semester/term/ year exam will begin according to the datasheet notified separately by the respective departments for all postgraduate courses in regular mode as registered and also for those registered with the School of Open Learning and NCWEB.

• No separate information will be conveyed to the students by the exam branch.

• All the students need to make sure that their exam forms for the respective courses have already been filled up.

• Those who appear for the OBE and would like to improve their scores can do so according to the cycle of the semester in a year which means that the papers listed for the odd semester can be attempted in January 2021 and then again for the May/June 2021 semester in accordance with the applicable syllabus and the exam scheme.

• If there is any issue/ query or inconsistency, students should contact their respective departments, faculty and centre through the online mode without any delay.

• The admission tickets for all the PG courses for 2019-20 will be there on the exam portal from June 10, 2020, onwards. Students can download the admission tickets from the portal link. If there are any issues, queries can be sent to edpcellexam@gmail.com.

• Students are advised to stay in contact with their respective departments. Apart from using the official e-mail and SMS, Whatsapp may also be used by the department for conveying important information to the students according to their requirements.

DU Guidelines for Students Who Cannot Appear for the Exams

Students who are unable to appear for the OBE will get another chance to appear for the conventional mode of the exam in September. Those who are in the final year of the UG courses and wish to get admission in the PG courses but are unable to appear for the exams through OBE and choose to wait for the physical exam will be given provisional admission in the PG courses. However, that will be subject to the condition that they meet the eligibility criteria.

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There will be a two-hour exam for both UG and PG courses and students will have to answer four questions from a total of six questions. The question paper will have 75 marks for all students except for those in the School of Open Learning (SOL) and Non-Collegiate Women Education Board (NCWEB). The deadline given to the departments to upload the question papers is June 3, 2020.