Tamil Nadu universities have to postpone or prepone exams
following the announcement of Lok Shabha election dates.
Anna University has preponed its exams, with eighth semester
exams for BE/BTech earlied scheduled to start on April 14 will now start a week
earlier on April 14 and end before the polls start. More than 525
self-financing colleges under Anna University running the courses have to
reschedule their exams.
SRM University had to postpone a hotel management examination scheduled on April 24 to the following Sunday. "We have several outstation students. We realised that we may have to change the exam dates once the election date is announced. We've informed the students in advance so they can plan their travel accordingly," university controller of exams S Ponnusamy said.
The University of Madras has scheduled no exam between April
22 to 25. The university decided to announce the exam dates after the election
dates were announced. "We drafted the timetable. We held a meeting on
Saturday to discuss minor changes to be made to ensure that there are no exams
from April 22 to 25. We will make the changes and announce the exam dates on
Monday," said university public relations officer P.V. Ramalingam.
No just university exams, boards exams are also affected because of the Lok Shabha polls. CBSE has been forced to postpone some board exams including Urdu, sociology, philosophy and agriculture that fall on April 9, 10, 12 and 17 to April 25, 21, 19 and 22 respectively to avoid a clash with the elections in other states. In Tamil Nadu however, there are no changes, as the boards end before April 24. The state board exams for Classes 10 and 12 too need no changes.
SRM University had to postpone a hotel management examination scheduled on April 24 to the following Sunday. "We have several outstation students. We realised that we may have to change the exam dates once the election date is announced. We've informed the students in advance so they can plan their travel accordingly," university controller of exams S Ponnusamy said.
No just university exams, boards exams are also affected because of the Lok Shabha polls. CBSE has been forced to postpone some board exams including Urdu, sociology, philosophy and agriculture that fall on April 9, 10, 12 and 17 to April 25, 21, 19 and 22 respectively to avoid a clash with the elections in other states. In Tamil Nadu however, there are no changes, as the boards end before April 24. The state board exams for Classes 10 and 12 too need no changes.
Academic year at the schools in the state have to end on
April 22 to class poll dates as schools are the biggest polling booths.
However, officials said that there was no direction regarding this from the
state till Saturday evening. "Usually police take over the campus 24 hours
before the polling date. They complete the arrangements within the time
given," said B. Purushothaman, senior principal and correspondent of
Everwin Group of Schools. The school is the largest polling centre in Kolathur
constituency, and is expected to have 17 polling booths.
