Divya Patni
Jaipur: During the COVID-19 situation, Rajasthan government and with State University officials are trying two methods of evaluation due to current scenario. With the number of 20 lakh students enrolled in its university and colleges in the absence of annual/semester exams. The Chief minister Ashok Gehlot announced on that the examinations will not be held due to Covid situation in the state of Rajasthan. The Universities in Rajasthan are not allowed to take the examination before any order by the state government. The state government has the options to do evaluation should be done either on the basis of the exams that were held before the lock down or by the performance of the student in class in specific subjects during entire academic session that will help the students and everyone to face this phase. State higher education minister Bhanwar Singh Bhati said that, they were also examining central government norms for the examination and the changes that would be made the central government by the new norms that will help students as well as the state government to ensure this semester examination will be evaluated by the rules of both central and the state government. In the other states of the country, they are depending upon the internal assessment as the basics of annual scores that students had scored in their last examination/semesters. But, the state university has such a system leaving no scope for the evaluation on the basis of academic performance of students. In country most of the universities held 50 percent of their examination and will find the easy way to evaluate their marking on the basis of the scores of students that had scored by them earlier. In Rajasthan University, none of he honours subject was leaving a question on how to evaluate the students during this situation. It seem to be as a temporary relief to the students of Rajasthan University, In this period some sort of evaluation mechanism has to be developed. Awarding marks or percentage on the basis of last year scores theoretical and practical,”said by Rashmi Jain, vice-principal of Maharani’s College. The scores in degree colleges don’t matter for jobs but it is considered for appearing in the competitive exams. A professor in Mohan Lal Sukadia University, Udaipur. Wondered how to evaluate students who have not appeared in the last semster exams. “The government should have come up with some mechanism or any other way for evalution for the examinations. For the small classes with 30-40 students, even a teacher can create sometimes help but in bigger classes it is difficult to evaluate said by the teachers. Most probably the examination will be held online by a online portal or students will be promoted without giving any type of examination, that will help everyone to face the problems during this pandemic. State Government will soon to be announced their final verdict on this cause. Due to coronavirus the universities are not really prepared to conduct any type of examination theoretical or practical examinations will not be taken physically at the exams centers respectively.
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