
Mangaluru, April 11, 2017: Nearly 72,000 college  students will appear for different examinations as the month-long even  semester undergraduate examination of Mangalore University will commence  on April 17.
According to A.M. Khan, Registrar (Evaluation), the  university would open five more examination centres this time to enable  students to appear for the examination at their nearest colleges.
They  would be opened at Government Women’s College at Puttur; Government  First Grade College in Haleyangady; Misbah Women’s College in Surathkal;  Gurudeva College in Belthangady and at Saishankara College in Ponnampet  in Kodagu district.
With this, there would be 115 examination  centres, as the students would appear for second, fourth and sixth  semester examination.
The examination would end on May 17, he said and added that a majority of the examination would be completed by May 15.
Stating  that there were 216 colleges under the university in Dakshina Kannada,  Udupi and Kodagu districts, he said that the university would have to  conduct the examination for 241 combinations (a group of different  subjects) under 44 subjects.
He said that the university would  not outsource the distribution of question papers and answer sheets to  colleges. It would be done by the university itself.
After  consulting teachers, the university would make efforts to start  evaluation of answer scripts from May 15, as a majority of examination  would have been completed by then. Some internal arrangements have been  made this time to speed up the process of evaluation and feeding the  marks onto software.
With this, results could be announced at the earliest.
He  said that the university has completed re-evaluation of 3,000 answer  scripts of odd semester (first, third and fifth) examination conducted  in November 2016. Their results were being announced now in phases.
Hall tickets
The  Registrar (Evaluation) said that the colleges could download hall  tickets of students for the examination beginning on April 17 from the  website of the university from April 11.
However, the colleges would have to feed the required information onto the website for generating hall tickets.
Courtesy: The Hindu