Pune University or Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU), has taken the decision to hold exams for Final Year students. For all final year postgraduate students the syllabus would be considered till March 14 for the exams. The same would be applicable for final year students of undergraduate and postgraduate professional courses. SPPU would conduct the July examination in pen and paper mode.
The University has decided to conduct the exam for undergraduate non-professional course colleges on the basis of the complete syllabus. Final year undergraduate students will have to study the entire syllabus for the examination this year Final year students of professional courses of both undergraduate and postgraduate colleges would have to study only 60% of their syllabus. Each paper of professional and non-professional course examination would comprise of 50 marks and the exam time would be 1.5 hours.
Also, students who would appear to clear backlog would also have to study the entire syllabus. In this case also each paper would comprise 50 marks and the time duration would be 1.5 hours. The backlog examination would be conducted from July 1 to July 15 and the remaining exams would be conducted from July 16 to July 31, 2020.
For the outstation candidates, the university decided that students will appear for the exams within 120 days from the scheduled exams.
NS Umrani, pro-vice-chancellor of SPPU, said, “The preparations for the final-year exams are underway. We have not received any formal orders from the state government on promoting students or conducting exams. So we are preparing as per the schedule which we had received from the state government on May 8. If we get any new orders from the state government we will implement the same.