AHMEDABAD: The Gujarat University (GU) has postponed its first semester exams, scheduled to be held from November 14, to November 30. Nearly 80,000 students will take this exam. This is the first time that the GU will conduct semester exams following the implementation of Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) in BA, BCom, BSc and BEd courses.
The delay in exams has only amplified the rumours on the GU campus about the complete lack of preparedness on part of the varsity to implement the CBCS system. Right from the beginning, the GU has been confused over finalizing the syllabus, the optional courses to be offered as part of the CBCS as well as taking the semester exams.
Officials said that the last date for accepting exam forms was declared to be October 22 by the GU. However, there was complete lack of coordination between the colleges and the GU. The forms were not submitted in time as initially the college authorities were busy conducting their internal exams. Later, the students went off on Diwali vacation.
The GU opened recently after six days of Diwali vacation. Meanwhile, the university had a tough time dealing with the administrative staff which said it will boycott the exams till their issues are not resolved. Caught in the myriad storms, it is only obvious that the GU was not able to hold the exams on the stipulated date.
Sources in the GU said that the problems faced while implementing the semester system and teaching the syllabus has also led to delay in setting question papers for different streams. The exams were postponed to buy more time.
GU officials, however, saved face by saying that November 14 was declared as a tentative date, but now the final date has been announced as November 30. But the officials agreed that theCBCS system was forced upon the universities this year and is expected to create more trouble in the future as paper checking for the semester exams will take nearly a month and a half, leaving little time for teachers to finish the syllabus.
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