The term end examinations of the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) are commencing from June 1 till 21, 2017. For the first time, the University shall complete the examination activities in a period of 18 days and Kendriya Vidyalays (KVs) have been designated as examination centres.
The University has established 1034 examination centres including 100 centres in jails for jail inmates besides 23 overseas centres. The examinations is scheduled in two sessions ie morning (10 am to 1 pm) and evening (2pm to 5pm). The University shall be managing at an average of over 20 lakhs appearances during the entire examination period.
The process of examination form submission has been made completely online and the University has also discontinued paper based hall tickets. The students can download the hall tickets from the website of the University and report to the examination centres with student I-card. The University has also used SMS services extensively by sending SMSs to over 6.2 lakh students informing about their examination and other relevant information.
Besides, the University is also contemplating to re-start the facility of ON-Demand Examination in addition to examinations conducted in the months of June and December. The On-Demand facilities will be another significant step towards digitisation of examination process.
To maintain the sanctity and effective monitoring of the examinations, the University shall be sending special team of officers to examination centres established in the different parts of the country. Besides, the University will appoint observers during the entire examination at the examination centres.
The University gives its students to appear in any two examination periods in a year ie June and December, and extends the facility to appear in examination of more than 200 programmes and over 1000 courses or combinations. The students appearing in the June 2017 examinations shall also have the option of appearing for leftover papers in the December 2017 examinations provided their registration for the particular course/s is valid.