Karnataka: Students in the first year of PU can take tests at home to improve their grades; here’s how the assessment is set up.

After announcing that all first-year pre-university (I PU) students would be promoted without examinations a month ago, the Karnataka government is now offering students the opportunity to improve their grades by attending assessment tests that can be taken from their homes, similar to how open-book exams are held.

Model question papers will be uploaded on the Department of Pre-University Education’s official website, and students will be able to download them, compose responses, and then transmit them to their individual evaluators via various methods, according to officials.

“Students can take the assessment only if they want to improve their results from the universal 35 percent marks that are given to all because they were promoted without exams this year owing to the Covid-19 situation,” said DPUE Director Snehal R.

She stated that the administration was eager to develop a standard system of assessment and evaluation. “We didn’t want to make a distinction between students at public and private universities, and we also wanted to make sure that alternative forms of submitting answer papers were available to avoid any split based on the resources available to each student at home.”

Furthermore, the first assignment — in which students must answer model question paper-1 for each topic — should be completed and submitted to the instructor engaged between June 10 and June 20, with the evaluation taking place on June 25. By June 25, the evaluation will be completed.

The second assignment should be delivered to the lecturer between June 26 and July 5, and will be assessed until July 10. From July 11 to July 15, the entire assessment — when the two assignments are reviewed and converted to scores in the required format — will take place. From July 15 until 2 p.m., lecturers must post their final grades to the SATS portal.0.

Snehal explained that students could either take photos/scan the answer scripts and transmit them over WhatsApp or email to the appropriate lecturer when asked how they would submit them. “Students who do not have access to online facilities can post them or meet with their lecturer in person to submit them directly, as Covid-related restrictions are expected to be relaxed by then,” says the D.

DPUE officials further stated that each student would be notified about the system by SMS to the cell number associated with their registration. “A link to the DPUE portal will be included in the SMS to access the model question papers. Students will be notified of this by their professors or, at the absolute least, their classmates. The official explained that the website contains clear directions on how to attend the assessments (including those with practical components).