New Delhi Dec 17 PTI The Delhi Universitys executive council on Friday approved holding of entrance examinations for admissions from next year officials saidThe executive council EC is the highest decision-making body of the university and despite dissent by two of its members it approved the proposal to hold a common entrance test CETThe Delhi University currently follows the cut-off based systemAm academic council meeting was held on December 10 and it had approved the proposalA nine-member panel constituted by DU Vice-Chancellor Yogesh Singh had recommended that the university should hold a common entrance test CET to ensure substantial objectivity in the process of admissions amid a controversy over high number of 100 per cent scorers from the Kerala board getting admissions to the universityAccording to the dissent note signed by the two members Seema Das and advocate Ashok Aggarwal the committees report is silent on the estimated fees for such an examination and the format of CET that can successfully assess the students and the basis for various kinds of supernumerary admissionsThe note also said that currently students can change streams and asked whether the CET process would allow thisThis report mentions that through CET merit and only merit of a prospective applicant will be the benchmark for undergraduate admissions Does this mean that students who were admitted are not meritorious Does this mean that the interim report is alleging that the admissions system the university has been following since many generations is not based on merit it askedThe committee in a very arbitrary manner labelled CET as a procedure which will provide equitable opportunity they allegedIt ignores the increased pressure on students because of an additional examination for admission The committee ignores the fact that such a filter results in an additional expenditure towards coaching and therefore marginalises those coming from disadvantageous backgrounds said the noteIt also cited observations of the Madras High Court in a case on NEET in which it concluded that entrance exams benefited only students who spend lakhs of rupees on coaching classes and put rural students at a disadvantageThe committee is silent on the total expenditure by the university in running such an entrance exam for lakhs of students What will be the mode and format of this examination How much duration such an admission process will require No timeline has been proposed The committee does put any proposal on the number of centres required across the country to make such an exam accessible Neither it produces any guidelines for the arrangements required to make these centres safe for students and examinations the note saidThe committee formed under the chairmanship of Dean Examinations D S Rawat was supposed to examine the reasons for over and under admissions to undergraduate courses study board-wise distribution of admissions in these courses suggest alternative strategies for optimal admissions and examine OBC admissions with reference to the non-creamy layer statusThe committee is of the considered view that admissions may be carried out through a Common Entrance Test CET said the reportIt may be conducted through an appropriate mode by the university through a well-devised internal arrangement or through any external agency depending upon prevailing operational feasibility and administrative convenience at that time followed by declaration of a list of eligible candidates for admissions under various course of study the committee said in its report PTI SLB IJT IJT

New Delhi Nov 30 PTI Online open book examinations of Delhi University commenced on Tuesday with nearly 46000 students appearing in the tests officials said The examinations went smoothly barring a few technical glitches they said According to officials there was a problem with the paper code of a subject in English and the issue was rectified and the students taking that exam were given extra time Officials also said that there were around 100 email submissions while the rest of the students submitted their answer sheets on the designated OBE portal Almost 46000 students took the exams and there were nearly 100 submissions through email which is a very small number The maximum number of email submissions were from Rajdhani College at 63 while the minimum email submissions were from Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College at one said D S Rawat Dean Examinations of the university According to the guidelines students are supposed to submit the papers on the OBE portal only All the students are advised not to use any unfair means in writing exam they must be very careful in writing exams system is in place to detect copyinguse of unfair means in the examination according to the guidelines During the June open book examinations OBE over 350 students were caught using unfair means as a result their paper or whole semester was cancelled it said If submission on the portal gets delayed beyond one hour student can use additional one hour to upload the scripts on the OBE portal that is the 5th hour but in that case students have to keep the documentary evidences 4-5 snap shots of the delay in uploading In another words students will have 3 hrs for writing answers 1 hr for downloading question paper and uploading scripts 1 hr for delayed submission for which documentary evidence needs to be submitted the guidelines had said The guidelines said that results of answer scripts submitted by email may get delayed due to verification process as it happened during December and March and June examinations PTI SLB SMN SMN