Gauhati University Degree Exams 2021 Guidelines for 1st, 3rd and 5th Semester

The Gauhati University (GU) had announced that they will conduct the Under Graduate(UG)/Degree Exams in the colleges affiliated under GU. Keeping the COVID 19 Pandemic situation in mind the GU administration had published a detail Standard Operating Procedure(SoP) regarding conduction of Semester Exams of 1st, 3rd and 5th Sem students for the year 2021. Parallelly Gauhati University has published the routine for BA, B. Sc., B. Com students. The link of Gauhati University 1st, 3rd and 5th Semester Exam time table is given below. As per the guidelines of Gauhati University the BA, B. Sc., B. Com or TDC course students can give their exam online from home. The SoP publish by Gauhati University for 2021 Degree Exams as given below.

Gauhati University Degree Exams 2021 Guidelines for 1st, 3rd and 5th Semester

On the basis of deliberations at appropriate levels, the following SoP is issued to be followed for all ensuing examinations being conducted by Gauhati University. All students are hereby informed to go through it carefully and follow accordingly.

1. All answers must be handwritten by the examinee in A4 size paper. A model Answer Sheet is uploaded in the portal https://web.gauhati.ac.in/otbe. This model Answer Sheet may also be downloaded, printed and then used for writing answers.
2. All pages must contain page numbers.
3. Number of pages may be less or more than 10 pages. But, in no case the uploaded document be more than 5.0 MB size.
4. A procedure is laid down in the portal https://web.gauhati.ac.in/otbe. to know as to how to scan and convert the Answer Sheets in to PDF and can be reduced to less than 5.00 MB. This is very crucial for successful uploading. As such, the examinees should practise and learn properly as to how to limit it to less than the specified size. Ideally, if scanned properly, a 10 page document will be around only 2 MB size only.
5. To do it as mentioned in point 4 above, some apps have been recommended in the portal https://web.gauhati.ac.in/otbe. The students can use similar other apps also.
6. The Question Papers will be available for downloading 30 minutes before the beginning of the Examination.
7. The student will be able to upload the PDF copy of the answer script after 30 minutes from the time of commencement of the examination and the upload facility will be available until one hour (60 minutes) after the end of the examination.
8. Once a student uploads a document, he/she can’t do it again. So make sure that-
   1. The Answer Sheets are properly scanned, converted to a single PDF maintaining serialization of the pages.
   2. Recheck the size of the document before going for uploading and make sure it does not exceed 5 MB size.
   3. So, students are strongly advised to practise this procedure (scanning and conversion to PDF) using any document available at hand.
9. In order to take the Examination, the students will be required to log in to the Examination Portal. To log in, the students need to give correct Registration No., Mobile No. and Date of Birth.
10. Since it is an Open Book Examination conducted in the online mode, they will be able to take the help of the textbooks, notes etc.
11. The total marks for each paper will be 70 percent of the total theory marks. Total duration of the examination will be mentioned in the respective question papers.
12. There will be no offline submission of any Answer Sheet anywhere.
13. Further, students are informed to ensure their connectivity and use of proper gadgets.
14. All practical examinations will be notified later on.

Gauhati University BA, B. Sc, B. Com 1st, 3rd and 5th Semester Exam Routine

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