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DU attendence policy: facing short attendence?

Akash Dutta — Wed, 08 May 2024 18:10:14 +0000

DU attendance policy: Facing short attendance?

Delhi University semester exams are about to start and a new problem among students has arisen regarding attendance policy. Those students who are enrolled in regular courses and have attendance less than 67 percent shall not be eligible to appear in examinations (some conditions applied). This is creating anxiety among students to maintain the minimal requirement here. Colleges this time are very strict with their attendance policy. Gradually colleges are publishing their official notifications for students with low attendance. This blog will let you know the entire attendance policy of Delhi University and some measures that you can take to maintain a good attendance percentage in your college. Then we shall deal with questions about how viable this policy is in bringing regularity to the college. How much necessary it is to have strict attendance measures in universities?

DU attendance policy

As per the current attendance policy of Delhi University, Students must have 66.67 percent attendance. It means that for all the classes that have been organized in the whole semester in regular courses, you must pursue 67 percent of the total number of classes. Those who can’t fulfill this criterion of attendance will not be eligible to appear in semester examinations for their respective course until conditions apply.

The circular from the Delhi University (DU)-affiliated college reads, “This is to inform all students having less than 67 percent attendance that they should report with their parents to the college…”

In 2023 as per the report of TOI, 1397 students have been detained due to low attendance in their classes. This year also it is anticipated attendance that strict action will be taken against the defaulters of attendance.

Relaxation in the attendance policy

Although a relaxation in attendance policy has been there in case of medical problems. If you have a medical problem, please submit your medical certificate to the college and thereby you can get relaxation accordingly. Also If you part of NSS, NCC, sports, or any other college society where you were engaged in any co-curricular activities then you can get attendance relaxation up to approximately 15 percent ( can differ by college policy). Otherwise, it will be very difficult for you to maintain the total attendance without attending your regular classes.

Parent meeting: How much is viable?

Colleges of Delhi University are now calling parents of defaulters inside the college campus.

Recently Hansraj College has issued a notification to call the parents of those students who are defaulters This has created a huge problem for students especially in the case when they are immigrants in Delhi. For every parent, it becomes very difficult to travel to Delhi, if they are residing outside. Hansraj College Principal, Rama Sharma, justified the decision, citing past instances where parents were unaware of their wards’ attendance issues because the students had provided their email IDs instead of their guardians.

However, Aditi Tyagi, SFI Delhi state committee member stated the problem in dealing with attendance, especially after the introduction to the new education policy in her words, “Students are made to attend classes on ‘how to be happy’, under the FYUP, which have mandatory attendance. Because of these extra subjects, classes now end at 5 pm. Many students, who usually are involved in co-curricular and extra-curricular activities, are finding a huge chunk of their day being taken away by classes alone”

Conclusion

Thus it can be concluded that The stringent attendanceṄ policy of colleges is creating huge problems for their students. The continuous classes continuously for 5 hours with the demand to be present regularly creates a lot of problems for students. Thus next time if you don’t want to face this problem, either maintain your attendance or you can join any college society which is an advantage in this case. Also, colleges here must create a way for online meetings for those parents who can’t travel to Delhi on an immediate basis. By the end of the day please try to be present at classes whenever possible to avoid such difficulty.

References

https://www.edexlive.com/campus/2024/May/07/is-delhi-university-becoming-more-stringent-with-attendance-rules-students-think-so

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AMU Plans To Hold Final Exams

DU Times — Tue, 02 Jun 2020 06:18:58 +0000

The Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) is planning to the hold final year exams. Delhi University has confirmed Open Book Examination (OBE). Though, the DU teacher’s association and stdudents are against OBE, AMU proposed to either follow DU or go for online exams.

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Moreover, the exams will be held for final year udergraduate and posgraduate students. Additionally, the backlog exams for these students will also take place. This decision was declared after meeting by examination committe. The meeting was held on 30th May.The notice was then made available to the AMU deans and head of departments (HOD’S). Considering the situation, the university is still deciding on the mode for the exams.

The notice further informed that alternative options may be considered to hold the exams, if situation doesn’t improve. These maybe online , or OBE. Earlier, DU came up with tentative datesheet for the OBE. It was declared by both teachers and students as anti-student move. AMU released the notice on its official website, thereby informing the students regarding the decision.

AMU earlier declared that exams will be held from July 1. However, the final decision would be announced 20 days before the dates of exams. The decision will be taken considering the situation at that very time.

It is no surprise that students are confused. While students are facing problems, the university decides to hold exams.

Various Universities and Colleges Are Not Taking Final Exams.While the Maharashtra Govt. cancels all final year exams, DU and AMU are on the verge of taking them. Furthermore, other prestigious institutes have also decided to not take the final year exams. IIT Bombay, IIT Roorkee are not taking the exams. Henceforth, the decision of these universities will be importants.

While the final mode of exam of AMU is still not decided, DU released the tentative datesheets for final year students for Open Book Exams. The tentative datesheet shows DU conducting exams from July 1. The students now awaits the decision from their respective universities.

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Students will have to fill Affidavit of Integrity before appearing in online examination (OBE)

DU Times — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 15:30:21 +0000

Students of Delhi University will have to fill an Affidavit of integrity before appearing OBE online examination. As per OBE, students are allowed to take the help of notes and approved study material by the university. In the affidavit, students have to write that he or she is not using any other study materials. It is done to reduce the possibility of any misconduct during the examination.
It is for the first when Delhi University is going to take OBE for above 2 Lakh students of SOL, NCWEB, and regular. Delhi University previously asked students to fill an Online examination form. Now examination committee made sure that guidelines and instruction are being very clearly made to the students. In the instructions, students were told to download their course paper from the portal and the format of Affidavit will also be available there. Students were asked to sit in their homes and take the help of approved notes while taking OBE. Students will have to solve the paper within the time limit of 2 hours and submit it.
Affidavit link will be available on the portal and students have to click it before writing and submitting the paper on the portal. In the affidavit, students must write that they are only using notes and other approved study materials and taking up the exam within the guidelines off DU only.
For Disabled students, Delhi University made special arrangements. Disabled students are allowed to take attendant with them. Extra time will also be given to them in order to complete the exam. If due to any valid reason, the student is not able to take the examination and in condition to appear physically then there’s a possibility of re-conducting of exams physically in September for those who won’t be able to appear in OBE.

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DUTA Against Open Book Examinations

DU Times — Mon, 01 Jun 2020 06:17:09 +0000

Delhi University Teacher’s Association (DUTA) now writes letter to VC against mode of final exams. They back students after the release of tentative datesheet of final year. The key points are

Teachers and students ask for views from wider stakeholders before conducting exams
They list the ignorance of visually-challenged students by DU.

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Amidst all the protest from students and teacher’s groups, DU released the tentative scehdule of the exams. The exam is supposed to begin from 1 July. The exams will be entertained by around 2.4 lakh students and will be conducted for final year students.

The academic council and executive council wrote letter to VC, in response to release of datesheet.The councils expressed their agony in the letter, whereby mentioning the problems faced by students. Moreover, they also wrote how the OBE is anti-student. Additionally, they also mentioned the ignorance of results of various surveys. These surveys were taken from students and teachers. The results show students and teachers against the conduct of OBE.

The councils further cited two questions in front of VC, which are stated below.

How does OBE remain the only option for taking exams? How did we arrive at this conclusion?
Why is OBE certain, but the dates aren’t ? Won’t this make it difficult for students?

In addition, the councils also reported the biasness of exams. Although, the OBE is fixed, the dates for exam are still not certain. Futhermore, they also mention the breaking of rules and regulations on part of DU, by conducting the OBE. They go on to write the issues faced by students.

There are students stuck in their native places without notes and books. Also face net problems which worsen the conditions. The local students too aren’t sure about their net connections. A large population comes from socially and EWS who face different sets of problems.

DUTA took a survey of 51000 students. The results showed students against this mode of examination. Around 85% are in disagreement of this decision by DU. The teacher’s association now waits for answers. Further, hopes that administration will take some due action.

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Delhi University released a tentaive Date-sheet for OBE for final semester/yearly examination

DU Times — Sat, 30 May 2020 15:45:39 +0000

Delhi University published a tentative date-sheet for OBE (open book examination) for all the students registered in their official website.
As per the date-sheet students registered under the CBCS pattern (2015-2017) will have exams from July 1st, 2020 whereas examinations for BSc Honors of Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, and other such subjects for the Final Year students will start from July 2nd, 2020.
Initially, the idea of OBE was opposed by the board members, students, and teachers. It was concluded that it would be unfair for students and most of them won’t appear in OBE due to a lack of e-resources and proper connection to the internet. The teacher also said that it is new for them as well as students and no one is prepared for it so it can lead to anxiety among a large number of students.
For the current time period, Delhi University released a tentative date-sheet for OBE and students are asked to check their official site for more details.

CHECK THE DATE-SHEET BELOW :

Three Year Under Graduate Courses (Semester-II/IV/VI)

B.Tech. Science Under Graduate Sem.IV/VI/VIII (Students admitted under erstwhile FYUP-2013)

Annual Mode (Part-I/II/III) Exams July-2020

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