UNIVERSITY OF DELHI

Ref. No. /Dean(Exams.)/2020 July 15, 2020

NOTIFICATION

In compliance of the order passed by the Hon’ble High Court on 14.07.2020 in W.P.(C)
No.3199/2020 and in continuation to the notification issued on 08.07.2020 vide
Ref. No. Dean(Exams)/2020/updated regarding the Open Book Examination(OBE) for the
final semester/term/year students of all Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses
including SOL and NCWEB to be conducted by the University, the following points may be
noted by all concerned :

1. The University of Delhi shall conduct the examinations for the final
semester/term/year students of all Undergraduate and Postgraduate courses
including SOL and NCWEB from 10.08.2020 onwards in the OBE mode remotely.
The examinations shall begin on 10.08.2020 and shall conclude on 31.08.2020.

2. The final date sheets for the Undergraduate courses shall be available on the
official website of the University of Delhi (www.du.ac.in) by 16.07.2020. The
datesheets for the Postgraduate courses and professional courses shall be
released on the website by 22.07.2020.

3. For those students who for any reason are not able to appear in the examinations
in OBE mode remotely which are scheduled to begin from 10.08.2020, the
University has decided to conduct an additional phase of examinations in OBE
mode through online/offline/blended mechanism as elaborated below:

• This special dispensation is being made as a one-time measure for the
convenience of such students who are unable to participate (wholly or in
part) in the examination scheduled to begin on 10.08.2020 to provide them
another opportunity to take their examinations, subject to the prevalent
situation of COVID-19 and any further notification/guidelines from
University Grants Commission (UGC).

• The examinations will be conducted after about two weeks from the date of
conclusion of the examination in OBE mode remotely.

• The datesheets for these additional examinations shall be released in due
compliance with the Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for conduct of
examinations as formulated by the MHRD and notified by the UGC vide vide
Ref. No. D.O.No.F.1-1/2020 (Secy) dated 8th July, 2020.

• The students under the PWD category including the visually impaired
students who have appeared for the OBE remotely and who wish to
improve their grades shall be given the opportunity to improve their
grades in these examinations. The best grade/marks secured by the PWD
students based on these two examinations shall be taken into
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dated 17.06.2020 passed by the Hon’ble High Court of Delhi in WP No.
3411/2020)

4. To make the examination process more seamless and smooth, the students, who
has already filled their examination forms can see their information for their
unique paper codes along with title of the examination papers, etc. The students
who have never filled the examination form can fill the form through their
dashboard. In case of any missing information or ambiguity, the students must
inform their respective college through email (provided on the college website) to
correct any errors in and/or to update their particulars such as mobile number, e-
mail address, unique paper code etc. All the students are advised to access the
examination portal from 21.07.2020 to 26.07.2020 and verify the correctness of
their respective particulars.

5. The students who have not filled their examination forms due to any reason shall
be given an opportunity to submit the same as per their respective scheme of
examination and the span period. The students shall be given a time of four days
beginning from 21.07.2020 and ending on 24.07.2020 to complete the process.
The students are advised to enter the respective information and details of their
respective papers carefully. The information as entered by the students will be
automatically integrated with the examination portal, the colleges can verify the
information received from students. Students of regular colleges and NCWEB
who have not submitted their examination forms are advised to submit their
examination forms directly on the portal (http://obe.du.ac.in) latest by
24.07.2020. The students of SOL may update their examination forms at
http://solobe.du.ac.in

6. To rule out the possibility of any data entry errors in the examination forms, the
portal shall also be made accessible to the college through a link so that the
colleges can double check the details as entered by the students such as mobile
no., e-mail address, unique paper code, description of papers etc. The process will
start from 21.07.2020 till 26.07.2020.

7. The Mock Test shall be conducted in two phases to make the students familiar
with the procedure of OBE to be conducted remotely.

• The first phase of the Mock Test will start from 27.07.2020 and will continue
up to 29.07.2020. The tests will be conducted in three sessions each day. The
schedule for the Mock Test will be notified by 24.07.2020.

• The second phase of the Mock Test will begin from 01.08.2020 and will
continue up to 04.08.2020. The second phase of mock tests will be based on
real time and single paper of each program of final semester/year of
undergraduate and postgraduate programmes of current batch. There will be
three session of tests on each day. The session wise schedule of the Mock Tests
will be notified by 28.07.2020.

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8. The guidelines as issued on 30th May, 2020 and 1st June, 2020 related with the
conduct of OBE for Undergraduate courses and Postgraduate courses respectively
shall be applicable for the rescheduled examinations to be conducted as per the
revised date sheet notified by the examination branch except at point nos. 16 and
17 respectively.

9. All the facilities extended to the students under the Divyaang (PWD) category in
general and the Visually Impaired students in particular such as provision of study
material/reference texts, assistive devices and the facility of scribe for the OBE
shall continue to be applicable for the rescheduled examinations. (Reference:
Notifications issued on 04.06.2020, 22.06.2020 and 29.06.2020)

10. Facilities available at college and departments of University will be made
accessible to students belonging to PWD category in general and Visually
Impaired (VI) in particular, so that ICT infrastructure is available to the students
with the prior information during the schedule examination in OBE mode to be
conducted remotely. The facility will be available to other students as well with
prior information and with the conditions of adherence of guidelines of social
distancing and safety measures.

11. As notified earlier, the facilities of ICT infrastructure to be provided to the
students for the OBE at the Common Service Centre (CSC) engaged by the
University shall be made available to the students for the rescheduled
examinations also as per the new date sheet notified by the examination branch
(Reference: Notifications issued on 30.05.2020, 01.06.2020 and 22.06.2020)

12. The procedure notified earlier on 02.07.2020 for downloading the question
papers and uploading the scanned images of answer sheets for the OBE along with
the details of the portal shall remain the same as before.

13. The provisions made for the redressal of grievances/queries of the students, if
any, related with the OBE including those related with the date sheets shall
remain the same as notified earlier by the Examination Branch (Reference:
Notifications issued on 19.06.2020 and 22.06.2020)

14. The different guidelines as has been issued to the Deans/Heads/Principals of the
Faculties/Departments/Colleges regarding the conduct of the OBE shall remain
unchanged for the rescheduled examinations.

For further updates, please visit the University website www.du.ac.in.

Note: Information given only on the University website i.e. www.du.ac.in shall be
considered official.

Dean(Examinations)
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