SPPU exams from April 10, date sheet out on March 25

PUNE: The Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) will start the first-semester examination for all courses from April10. The practical examinations will be conducted by the colleges immediately after the last examination of the respective course.

Students of conventional courses such as BA, BSc and BCom will have question papers on the full syllabus, but question papers for students of professional colleges will be based on 70% of the syllabus.

The university circular on Wednesday said the date sheet of the examinations would be uploaded online on the official website on March 25 while the mock tests would be available for students from April 7.

The first semester examinations for all years of courses, should have been conducted in October/November 2020.

These exams will be conducted online in a multiple-choicequestion (MCQ) format for a one-hour duration for a total of 50 marks. For this, 60 MCQs will be given out of which correct answers to 50 questions will be considered.

“Most of the courses have completed 100% of their syllabus so their examinations will be held on the whole syllabus. The same goes for the courses that follow the annual pattern and external students. Meanwhile, the professional courses started their first semester on February 6 and hence for them, the respective board of studies have decided to go ahead with exams for 70% of the syllabus,” Mahesh Kakade, director of examination and evaluation at SPPU, said.

Once the results of the courses are announced by the university, the students will be able to fill up the examination forms for the second-semester examinations in a phased manner.

The schedule for in-semester, online, session examination (for theory subjects in certain courses and Fundamentals of Programming Languages ) should be conducted at the college level and the students should be informed accordingly, the university circular said.

Marks obtained by the students in this examination will be sent to the university by April10, 2021. Only those, whose internal marks are received by the university by April 10, will get to know their first semester results online. The mark sheets will be distributed after the results of the second-semester examinations are declared.

Backlog examinations and regular exams for certain students of the old syllabus as well as ME electives, will be conducted at the college level.