Coronavirus Lockdown: NITIE Mumbai holds semester exams online

NITIE Mumbai campus

Abhay Anand | April 28, 2020 | 12:37 PM IST

NEW DELHI: The National Institute of Industrial Engineering Mumbai (NITIE) conducted semester examinations for its final year students online. A total of 128 students located in different parts of the country participated in the three-hour long examination. The institute adopted this mode due to the lockdown enforced to control the spread of coronavirus.

NITIE is among the few institutions in the country which have taken the online route to conduct exams. Manoj K. Tiwari, its director, told Careers360 that the institute used a digital platform which was designed and tested to give the students an experience of writing exams from home during the ongoing COVID -19 lockdown.

The institute plans to publish the results within one month. “We are happy that all the 128 students that appeared in the exam yesterday submitted their responses on time,” Tiwari said.

He further explained: “We have around 450 students in various courses and in this examination around 128 students took part. It has been done through our online platform which has been designed in such a way that even a student who is in a remote location will be able to participate in it. Students can participate in this examination even through their mobile.”

The semester examination was conducted in three parts and students were given time for each section and after three hours they had to submit their answers. Students were also given 25-30 minutes to go through the questions.

Some of the other universities in the country have also started to conduct examination through digital mode, recently Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) started its mid-semester examinations online.

Another Central University in the country, Mahatma Gandhi Central University (MGCU) in Motihari, Bihar, is getting ready announce the results of examination it conducted through WhatsApp.