Delhi University held its first ever online examination with the 60 minute paper on environmental sciences conducted for the students of BSc at Miranda House and Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (DDU) College. Taking this as a step towards the examination reforms and semester system to be introduced in 2010 at the undergraduate level, this could be one of the ways for time management in the semester system.

Conducted by DU’s ILLL, the exam was taken by over 800 students, with 1,700 more waiting to appear for their online exams on June 9 and 13 at three different centers.

Terming this as the beginning of the next generation examination in higher education, officials said the success of this pilot-run would help ILLL make the Computer Based Test (CBT) an integral part of the examination reforms in future.

Most students seem to find the CBT system more interesting than writing the test using pen and paper. According to a student of Deen Dayal Upadhyaya College, “Online examinations are much more interesting than the routine theory papers. It was a fun way of taking an exam and also made us familiar with technology.”

The students found the exam less tiring and are looking forward to the introduction of more such exams. They said: “The most positive feature of this exam was that it was not tiring at all.”

Speaking on the first day’s experience, officials also said that while students found it more convenient, for the examiner and evaluators, too, it was time saving. “Exams are conducted to test students’ application and knowledge and one can develop such questions for online exams as well. In fact, we already have the results although we have not declared them today,”.

While exams having multiple choice questions can test the knowledge on a certain subject, they won’t offer an insight on the writing and presentation skills of a student. “The only disadvantage is that we may not be able to judge the writing and presentation skills. But we’re working on that format and there are software available for such exams as well,” said an official of Delhi University.

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