While most students took the mid-semester exam online, those on campus were allowed to also take it in classrooms on a device, to ensure equality; exam held amid all Covid-19 safety norms
The picture of students taking the exam in a classroom shared by IIT-B Director Prof Subhasis Chaudhuri on his Facebook page
The idea according to the institute is to take the first step toward hybrid learning mode in these difficult times. “We have about 1,000 UG students on campus currently, they came back due to access issues in remote learning mode. Here too, they are attending classes online but have easy access to devices and the internet. To ensure parity, they too are appearing for exam in the same way as others who are in remote mode i.e. using devices such as phones etc. to receive the question paper, submit answers, or even upload photos of some answers required to be solved on paper,” said Prof S Sudarshan, deputy director of academics and infrastructure.
Adequate arrangements are made such as properly ventilated classrooms, exhaust and ceiling fans and maintaining six feet distance between two students. Further elaborating on why this hybrid mode of exam is only for UG students, when some PG (Post Graduate) students too are on campus, Prof. Sudarshan said, “We did not want to start with a big number in the first go. Even in the case of UG, a hybrid exam is not for all, as individual course instructors were asked to take a decision on whether they want to hold their exam so. In numbers, out of total courses in UG, about 25 per cent are holding exams in this hybrid mode.” Currently there are around 5,000 students on campus out of whom only 1,000 are from UG courses and another 1,000 roughly from PG courses. Others are Ph D students.
NEET exam held
The National Entrance and Eligibility Test (NEET) for admissions to medical courses was conducted in offline mode across India on Sunday. While it was more or less a smooth experience, candidates from few centres were shocked that their admit cards were not taken and OMR sheets were separated. “The two pages of OMR sheet are always submitted together but at the K J Somaiya college Centre in Mumbai, the invigilator asked students to separate them. In S P Engineering College centre, the invigilator did not collect the admit cards of students,” said Ruhi Kapoor, a parent. Affected students plan to write to the National Testing Agency (NTA) which conducts the exam.
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