Online Exams:- The Good V/S The Bad

What happen when the lockdown was extend till July? How the universities will take this end-term exams? And if the exams were taken through online mode ,so, what is the benefit and drawback of online exam? Today these questions where ask by every university student. Where every universities bring up with the notice about the examination. Like GGSIPU(Guru Gobindh Singh Indraprastha University) released a notice which states the update of examination dates, summer vacations details and many more. According to the notice the examinations  was conduct from 20 June, 2020 for final semester student and other semester student exam was conduct from 1 july,2020 in offline mode. But if the lockdown extend till 20 July. The university decided to conduct exam in online mode for final semester student.  The central university of Gujarat will tentatively conduct the semester exam in July and conduct science practical sessions using online mode.

Every Coin has two sides. Similarly, Online exam also have to side good and bad .i.e. benefit and drawbacks. Initially, we discus about The Good side of online exams:

1. During the time of Coronavirus Pandemic, Online exams might be the only way out to conduct the semester examination. UGC has also advised the Universities and Colleges to either mark students based on internal assessments or reduce the exam duration from three to two hours and also to conduct online examination.


2. Staying at home and giving exams, does sound good. Also, students save the traveling time. As we all know that lockdown is the only way to tackle a pandemic.


3. Use of unfair means is ethically wrong. However, it might turn out to be in favor of the students. We all know how.

The drawbacks are:

1. The University lacks the experience to pull off the online examination.


2. Issues such as lack of resources, internet connectivity, server load etc. might cause hindrance in the process.

Usually, the new academic sessions begins between July and August in universities and colleges. But this year, there is a huge uncertainty on that front in the wake of the pandemic.