MUHS instructs its medical colleges on conduct of pending Internal Assessment for Winter 2020 exams
Mumbai: Through a recent notice, the Maharashtra University of Health Sciences, (MUHS) has instructed its medical colleges on the conduct of pending Internal Assessment examination for Winter-2020 examinations.
The notice issued by the MUHS controller of examinations, Dr Pathak, has informed all the deans and principals of the concerned colleges that the internal assessment examinations, which are pending due to the present situation during the lockdown, can be conducted as per the simplified procedure (if required) as annexed in this notice (attached below).
The simplified procedure has been proposed so that the students are not disturbed during the lockdown period. The students can attend the tests from their places of residence without any additional requirements of computer hardware (laptops, desktops, printers etc) or software. If lockdown ends in between the ongoing internal assessment examination, institutes have discretion to shift to routine physical mode, if all students can physically join. The simplified methodology is illustrative. Institutes can change it (Question paper sending, Answer sheet receiving mode etc) as per their convenience. If any student misses the internal assessment examinations due to any reason, colleges are advised to conduct their examinations after the lockdown period is over, before the final examinations. All colleges shall send the internal assessment marks of this examinations and final internal assessment marks to the University, the notice stated.
All pending Internal Assessment examinations of IV, VI, VIII term MBBS shall be conducted as per this Standard Operating Procedure.
The same guidelines shall be used for the smooth conduction of internal assessment examinations for those students who will be appearing for Summer 2021 examinations of Ayurveda Faculty.
Simplified Procedure for Conducting Winter-2020 Internal Assessment Examinations
1. Detailed subject-wise schedule of pending internal assessment examination should be prepared and communicated to concerned students, at least 7 days before the start of the examination. The schedule should be sent by E-mail / SMS / Whats App message. If possible, students may be contacted on their / parents' mobile.
2. All the colleges may create a separate email ID for each subject/ department for communication with students. For example anatomy department in BJ Medical College can create email like bjmc_anatomy_ia@abc.com.
3. The pattern of this internal assessment examination should be similar to the university examination as far as possible. The question paper is set for the marks as per the guidelines. As students are expected to write the answers at their places of residence, so as far as possible, questions are to be framed, which are suitable for open book examination pattern.
4. It may be difficult to conduct a bed-side internal assessment practical examination in the present situation. Also, to conduct the online viva of students has many technical constraints. So same pattern/ methodology can be followed for practical examination. The practical oriented questions can be framed and sent on E-mail / SMS / Whats App. Both the question papers (theory and practical) may be sent at a time by E-mail / SMS / Whats App etc.
5. As far as possible, the questions related to the practical session of internal assessment should be framed with intent to assess the practical skills.
6. On the scheduled date of examination, the question paper is sent to all the students by E-mail / SMS / Whats App group at the time of the scheduled start of the examination.
7. Students will write the answer sheets (theory and practical) and at the end, students shall scan the answer sheets into a pdf file. Such scanned pdf file shall be sent to the respective E-mail / SMS / Whats App, from which the question paper was sent.
8. Faculty in the respective department will complete the assessment and send the marks to MUHS, as per the existing rules.
9. Before sending the marks to MUHS, students should be informed about the marks. If there is any grievance, it should be sorted out.
10. Students can submit the hard copy of (hand written and matching with the soft copy sent earlier) answer book of Theory and Practical separately to the concern department and then sign the internal assessment mark sheet, once they report the college after the lock down period is over.
11. During this lockdown period, the students should remain stress free. This is a simplified internal assessment examination. If Laptop, Computer, Tablet and Scanner are not available, then students can take a photograph of their answer page/s on their mobile phone and send it to the concerned teacher for evaluation. Students should write their Roll Number, Subject, Page Number on every page of answer book and should write all the answers as per the sequence of the question paper and should submit serially. Answer to a new question should be written on a fresh page.
12. This simplified procedure for conduction of Internal Assessment Examinations is a one time measure for the Winter-2020 examinations in view of the prevailing COVID-19 pandemic.
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For more details, log on to the official website of MUHS: https://www.muhs.ac.in/
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