Patna University set to conduct offline examinations from today

PATNA: The stage is set for Patna University to conduct its first offline examinations since the Covid-19 outbreak and closure of colleges. More than 2500 boys and girls of Degree Part III course, who could not take their examinations scheduled on March 14, would be writing their papers on Monday.
PU examination controller R K Mandal said all necessary arrangements were made for conducting the examination at Patna Women’s College, Magadh Mahila College, B N College, Patna College and Patna Science College centres.“The examination centres have been completely sanitised and seating arrangements have been made in such a way that examinees must maintain a distance of at least two metres between them. Besides, all the examinees have been asked to wear face masks and try to come with sanitisers, if possible. Otherwise, sanitisers would also be made available at the examination centres,” he said.
All the examinees have been informed about the examinations well in advance and hostels have been reopened for the examinees coming from outside Patna only. They would be asked to vacate the hostels after the end of examination, Mandal added.
PU has also announced the programme of Degree Part II (Honours) examinations scheduled to commence on October 5. The programme of Degree Part I examination and that of PG semester II and IV examinations would also be announced shortly, the controller said.
Meanwhile, PU students’ welfare dean N K Jha said the combined entrance tests for admission to BA, BSc and BCom Part I (Honours) courses shall begin from September 26. As many as 42,000 students have applied for admission to different courses of PU this year and the last date for submission of online application forms for admission to UG courses ended on August 31.
As per PU’s programme, the entrance test for admission to the BCom (Honours) course will be held on September 26 and that for BA (Honours) courses on September 30. The entrance test for BSc (Honours) course and BFA course will be held on September 29 and 30 respectively. While Magadh Mahila College has been authorized to hold combined entrance test for admission to BA and BCom (Honours) courses, Patna Science College will conduct the entrance test for BSc (Honours) course, Jha said.
The entrance test for all self-financing courses, both at UG and PG level, would be held between September 30 and October 7. Admission to all the conventional PG courses will be held on the basis of marks obtained in the last graduation examination. The last date for submission of online forms for admission to conventional PG courses is September 21, but it would have to be extended till the results of Degree Part III examinations are published, he added.