Srinagar: Kashmir University will conduct the annual entrance test for various programmes in the upcoming session likely by the end of March even as the varsity will declare the results of the outgoing undergrad students on a fast track basis, officials said on Saturday.
The undergraduate 5th and 6th semester students will be provisionally allowed to appear in the entrance test in case the results get delayed.
The varsity had, last year, scheduled the combined 5th and 6th semester examinations in August last year to enable them appear in the proposed second entrance test, which was scheduled in November. But due to the lockdown in Kashmir since the abrogation of Article 370 on August 5, the combined semester examination was delayed prompting the KU administration to cancel the November shift of admissions.
While the UG 5th semester exam concluded on January 11, the 6th semester exam, which began on January 15, will end on February 14.
The results of the two semester exams will be declared by the varsity by the time they notify the KU Entrance Test (KUET)-2020, Registrar KU, Prof Nisar Ahmad Mir hoped.
Prof Mir said that the entrance test for admissions to the upcoming academic session will be likely held in the last week of March.
“The undergrad 5th and 6th semester examination results will be hopefully out by then. Now in case of any delay, we will provisionally allow such students to appear in the entrance test,” Prof Mir added.
Controller Examinations at KU, Prof Farooq Ahmad Mir too hoped that that the results of the undergrad 5th and 6th semester examinations will be declared by March adding that the outgoing undergrads will be able to appear in the upcoming entrance test.
The 5th and 6th semester college students have already lost one academic year courtesy the semester system of examinations introduced at the Kashmir colleges in 2015 and due to which the students’ degrees have been inordinately delayed after the 2014 Kashmir flood and also frequent shutdowns in Kashmir.
Officials at the KU, citing the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS)-adopted at the colleges in 2016 and UGC norms- maintain that the courses of study at the institutions necessarily had to be distributed into two semesters a year as per the University Grants Commission (UGC) norms.
Meanwhile a circular issue by Coordinator Admissions at KU on Thursday asked the aspirants for the KUET to keep ready the necessary certificates beforehand adding that “under process” certificates will not be entertained.
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