PEC to reschedule dates of practical examinations

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 14

The Punjab Engineering College (PEC) management held discussions with students’ representatives on rescheduling dates of conducting practical examinations and to evaluate even semester marks on the basis of past performance, said Director Dheeaj Sanghi.

“The management has approved recommendations, however, the final decision will be taken by the PEC Senate, which is scheduled to meet on October 21,” said Sanghi

“Today’s meeting was fruitful. We have decided to reschedule practical examinations. It has been proposed to conduct examinations after Diwali, likely in November-December. Examinations will be conducted with less number of students in small batches and for longer duration,” added Sanghi.

“Examinations will be conducted twice. No one will be forced to appear in examinations or come to campus. If one fails to appear in the first attempt, he/she has to appear and pass the examination in the next scheduled lot. Recommendations have been made for the benefit of students,” said Sanghi.

“It has also been recommended to evaluate students of second and fourth semesters on the basis of their past performance. For some even semesters, too, students will be evaluated on the basis of their past performance. The top 95 per cent will get through to next semester while five per cent have to appear for physical examination. The semester has already been delayed. So, it has been decided to promote students on pass/fail criteria,” added Sanghi.

“These are only recommendations and will be implemented only after the approval of PEC Senate, which is scheduled to meet next Wednesday,” said Sanghi.

Meanwhile, the SOPs will be released later according to the situation.

Earlier, the PEC management had decided to call students to the campus in small batches in different time slots for practical examinations.

For BTech (fifth semester), practical exams have been scheduled from November 2 to 6, end-semester exams from November 7 and pending exams of the previous semester from December 11.

Practical exams of BTech (third semester) are expected to be held from November 17, followed by their end-semester exams from November 22 and pending exams from December 21.

For seventh semester, exams have been scheduled from December 5 to 9. And for MTech (third semester), pending exams will be conducted from January 4 while dissertation evaluation will be from January 11 to 13.