New Delhi: The Allahabad University has decided to promote certain students without taking examination while deferring the examinations for others. This announcement was made on the official website - www.allduniv.ac.in, the decision was taken due to the increasing number of COVID-19 cases in Uttar Pradesh. The decision was taken in a meeting of university's examination commission chaired by the AU's Vice Chancellor Rajiv Ranjan Tiwari. It was decided that students of the second year of undergraduate courses and intermediate semester of post-graduate and professional courses will be promoted to the higher class or semester. It was decided in an online meeting of the examination committee on 4 May'21, chaired by the Hon VC that the students of second year of undergraduate course and intermediate semester of postgraduate and professional courses will be promoted to the higher class or semester. pic.twitter.com/4LzZt0m7eE — University of Allahabad (@UoA_Official) May 4, 2021 It was also decided that the third year students of undergraduate courses will also be promoted and the marksheet will be given on the basis of their performance in the previous class. The exam committee resolved that the students of Third year of undergraduate courses will be promoted and marksheet will be awarded on the basis of their performance in the previous class. — University of Allahabad (@UoA_Official) May 4, 2021 Examinations will only be held for the first year students of undergraduate courses and final year students of postgraduate or professional courses. The examinations are likely be held in the July - August 2021 depending on the situation of pandemic. The exam committee also resolved that for the students of undergraduate first year courses and postgraduate or professional final semester the examinations will be held in the July - August 2021 depending on the then prevailing pandemic situation. — University of Allahabad (@UoA_Official) May 4, 2021 Earlier, the University had announced the dates for the examinations of under-graduate and psot-graduate students. They also issued the guidelines for the online exmaninations, “To submit the answer sheets online, students will get an additional time of 30 minutes. The university will keep the submission window open for the students to upload their answer papers after 90 minutes from the start of the paper”. "The answer scripts must be uploaded on the portal, and no other mode will be accepted," said the guidelines. But now the university has altered the examination schedule due to the pandemic.
