Nagpur University's examinations begin from March 5

Nagpur University has planned to conduct the examination in five phases beginning from March 5.

NU officials said that in the first phase, examinations for 33 certificate courses, including foreign languages like French, German and Russian along with Pali Prakrit, English, Telugu, Urdu and Bengali, will be held. Higher diploma examination of oriental learning in Sanskrit Shastri and Arabic, post graduate diplomas in travel and tourism, taxation, forensic science, video programming, banking law, and fashion technology would also begin on same date.

In the second phase, commencing from March 15, first and final year exams for BA, BCom, BCCA, BSc, BBA, BCA, BSc (IT and Home Science), BSW, BFD, BID, BJD, BPE, BEd, BFD, BTS and BHMCT, will be held. The all important engineering and technology exams will start in the third phase from April 16. The examinations of first to tenth semesters of all (BE/BTech/BArch) branches will be held in the third phase.

The fourth phase will kick start from April 20. The second year BA, BCom, BCCA, BSc, BBA, BCA, BSc (IT and Home Science), BFD, BID, BHMCT, BPE, BARS, BSW and pharmacy (BPharm and MPharm) examinations would be held in this phase. Also, exams of LLB, BFA, BALLB and BPEd will begin simultaneously. The postgraduate exams for MA, MCom, MSc, MSW, MIRPM, MCM, MPEd, MLS, MLISc, MHRDEF, MFA, BJ and MA (Mass Communication) will also start in this phase.

In last phase that begins from May 7, exams for MBA, MCA, MArch, MTech, ME, MTD, MFD, MHTM, LLM, MPhil, and MSc (IT, molecular biology and genetic engineering, and Biotech) would be held along with PGDCCA and BSc (Forensic Science). The officials informed that the dates for practical exams would be declared later.

NU exam section bears a huge burden of conducting over 1,000 examinations across ten faculties and sets up nearly 8,000 question papers along with their evaluation and moderation. Students, however, are keeping their fingers crossed and are hoping that NU wouldn't repeat last year's fiasco, when it deferred the entire examination just two days before it began under political pressure. Over 60,000 students were affected due this postponement.