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

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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.



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SPPU exam news: SPPU accepts ‘exceptional’ rise in pass percentage in Oct 2020 exam

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PUNE: Savitribai Phule Pune University has said it had an ‘exceptional’ increase in passing percentage in the term-end examinations held in October 2020.

The authorities reasoned that the increase was due to the online-MCQ-based model adopted for the examination. Sources said the passing percentage increased by almost 25% compared to the last year.

Some senate members have sought offline examinations so that the quality and standard of the examination are maintained.

A Board of Examination and Evaluation member of the university, on the condition of anonymity, said the university examinations are quite tough to clear, and generally the pass percentage for all branches put together is around 30%. But, last year, in the October 2020 examination for final year students, the result was between 50% and 100%.

“MSc biotechnology, which is a tough course and has generally a pass percentage of 20-22%, had a pass percentage of over 90%. There were cases of students who had failed for several years, passing the examination with almost cent percent marks in the last examination. Hence, it won’t be wrong to say that due to lack of proctoring, students did use unfair means easily to clear the examination hence the increase in pass percentage,” the member said, adding that the condition was the same across the universities in the country.

Several questions were raised by senate members about the examinations and if the university saw an exceptional number of students passing the examination. They also wanted to know if there was a proposal under consideration for the university administration to study the reasons for the increase if qualitative changes will be made in the exam system.

One of the management council members replied on the behalf of the university that there was indeed a huge increase in the number of students passing the examination in 2020 and this is being studied by a committee.

Two Sides To The Problem


The Examination Reform Committee has already been constituted by the management council to study all this. The structure of the examination in October 2020 was such that 40% of the questions were very easy, 40% of the questions were moderately difficult and the other 20% were difficult to solve. As per the order of the government, 40% of the questions were made available to the students for preparation. Hence it was noticed that the result of the examination increased in an exceptional manner

SPPU’s reply to the Senate’s question


This time we saw a pass percentage increase of 20-25% in the examination results which is very high. The examinations were not proctored and that could have contributed to this increase. We have appointed a committee to study these phenomena. Meanwhile, the upcoming first-semester examination from April 11 will be proctored and hence there will be proper monitoring of students attempting it

Sanjay Chakane, member of board of examination and evaluation for the university



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SPPU given nod to start its sub-centre in Qatar: Samant

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Maharashtra Higher Education Minister Uday Samant has said that permission has been granted to the Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) to start its sub-centre at Doha in Qatar.

He was speaking at the SPPU on Thursday, where he attended the grievance redressal forum meeting and heard the issues faced by the students.

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“Necessary permission has been given to the SPPU to start its syllabus in Doha Qatar. The MoU between the SPPU and the Qatar government was inked in 2019 for opening a sub-centre there,” Samant said.

The minister added that the recruitment process in the university, which was stalled due to COVID-19, will resume.

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Samant also said that a sub-centre of Yashwantrao Chavan Maharashtra Open University will be set up at Balewadi in Pune.

According to the SPPU, of the total number of 4,411 pending issues, as many as 4,053 issues related to the students, teachers, principals, non-teaching staff and other employees of the university were resolved during the meeting.

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Ayush officials take strong stand against ‘mixopathy’, but say no conflict with modern medicine

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SENIOR OFFICIALS from the Ministry of AYUSH, who were addressing a press conference at Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), took a strong stand against “mixopathy” at a time when doctors are staging protests against a recent notification by Central Council of Indian Medicine under AYUSH allowing Ayurveda practitioners to perform a few surgeries.

At SPPU for inking a pact to form a joint consortium for research in AYUSH systems, Dr Bhushan Patwardhan, national research officer, AYUSH, skirted the issue when asked about the recent controversy over the notification.

However, Patwardhan later issued a statement on the matter. “There should be no ‘mixopathy’ practice in the country. It is not acceptable to me too. I won’t promote something like that,” he said.

Vaidya Rajesh Kotecha, secretary, Ayush, also denied accusations that the two medical fraternities were at loggerheads. “No, there is no conflict of interest between modern medicine and AYUSH practitioners. We are cordial and during the COVID-19 pandemic, many were using alternate medicine practices as a supplementary method. For research as well, we have done important link-ups. I don’t think there is a conflict,” he said.

On Wednesday, a pact was inked between Ayush institutions like Teaching and Research in Ayurveda, Jamnagar, National Institute of Ayurveda, Jaipur, Rashtriya Ayurveda Vidyapeeth, New Delhi, and Centre of Excellence in Ayurveda at SPPU, with the aim to establish a collaborative network of institutions working in interdisciplinary areas of AYUSH.

The pact focuses on developing scientific research, capacity building, promoting faculty members to take part in various courses, conferences, seminars, congresses, organising training programmes for AYUSH teachers, students, clinicians and researchers.

Patwardhan said there was always an accusation about little research in the AYUSH system, and that it was not documented properly. He added that as a solution, top institutions needed to come up with a standardised protocol and also do collaborative work.

“There was a need for a common platform for strengthening these systems and also training manpower. To this purpose, this consortium has been formed,” he said.

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