DU winter exams witnesses 2.28 lakh students appear

The University of Delhi’s ongoing winter examination session under the National Education Policy (NEP) and choice-based credit system (CBCS) witnessed a massive turnout on Wednesday, with a record 2,28,781 students appearing for the papers.

The examination schedule was heavily centred on undergraduate programmes.

According to an official status report from the University exam branch, 904 unique question papers were administered throughout the day.

A significant portion of the examinees came from the School of Open Learning (SOL), which is DU’s distance education arm. SOL students accounted for 65,413 undergraduate (UG) and 2,002 postgraduate (PG) appearances, the branch said.

Combined with 1,61,366 regular UG students (and no regular PG exams scheduled for the day), the SOL contingent made up nearly 30 per cent of the day’s total exam-taking population, the statement said.

It mentioned that the morning session alone required 795 papers, with the vast majority (775) for regular and Non-Collegiate Women’s Education Board (NCWEB) UG courses and 20 for SOL UG courses.