TERM-END EXAMINATION

As stated earlier, term-end examination is another component of the evaluation system. Term-end examination carries 70% weightage in the final result.

The University conducts term-end examinations twice a year i.e., in June and in December. You can take the examination after the completion of the course.

In case you fail to get ‘D’ Grade in the Term End Examination, you will be eligible to reappear in the next Term End Examination for the course. In case you have secured Grade ‘D’ in average of assignments and term end examination of a course, but fail to secure overall qualifying grade ‘C’ you have an option either to re-do minimum required number of assignments not exceeding two for a course or re-appear in term end examination.

To be eligible to appear at the term-end examination in any course, you are required to fulfil the following four conditions:

1. You should have paid the course fee.

2. You should have opted and pursued the prescribed course.

3. You should have submitted all the assignments for the respective course.

4. You should have submitted the examination form in time (which is explained later).

Examination date sheet (schedule which indicates the date and time of examination for each course) is sent to all the study centres approximately 5 months in advance. The same is also notified through IGNOU News Letter from time to time. Normally, the date sheet for June examinations are sent in the month of January and those for December examinations in the month of July. The date sheet is also available on the IGNOU website www.ignou.ac.in.

It is an essential pre-requisite for you to submit the Examination Form for taking examination in any course. Copies of the examination forms are available at Study Centers/Regional Centres/Evaluation Division at Headquarters. A copy is also enclosed here in this prospectus. You can take photocopy of this form and use it. Only one form is to be submitted for all the courses in one term-end examination. You need not pay any separate fee for the examinations.

The filled in examination form is to be submitted to the Registrar (SR & ED), Indira Gandhi National Open University, Maidan Garhi, New Delhi-110 068 and not to any other place. The dates for submission of examination forms are 1st February to 31st March for the examinations to be held in June, and 1st August to 30th September for examinations to be held in December. Examination forms will be received at the Headquarters till 20th April with late fee of Rs. 100 for June term end examination. Similarly the examination forms for December examination can be received at the Headquarters till 20th October with late fee of Rs. 100/-. The Examination forms received after the dates or without late fee wherever applicable shall be rejected.

After receiving the examination form from you, the University will send intimation slip to you before the commencement of examinations. If you do not receive the intimation slip 15 days before the commencement of examinations, you may contact your Study Centre or Regional Centre or SR & E Division at the Headquarters. If your name is registered for examinations in the list sent to the study centre, you can take the examination by showing your Identify Card (Student Card) to the examination centre superintendent,even if you have not received intimation slip or misplaced the intimation slip.

Your study centre is normally your examination centre. Change of examination centre is permissible in exceptional cases for which you have to make a request to the Registrar (SR & ED) atleast one month before the commencement of examinations, against payment of prescribed fee.

Your Enrolment Number is your Roll Number for Examinations. Be careful in writing it. Any mistake in writing the Roll Number will result in non-declaration of your result.

It is your duty to check whether you are registered for that course and whether you are eligible to appear for that examination or not. If you neglect this and take the examination without being eligible for it, your result will be cancelled.

Although all efforts are made to declare the result in time, there will be no binding on the University to declare the results of the last examination before commencement of next examination. You are, therefore, advised to fill up the examination form without necessarily waiting for the result and get it cancelled at a later date if so required.

There is no re-evaluation of examination scripts or assignments. However, the students can apply in the prescribed form for rechecking of term-end examination script against payment of Rs. 100/- by means of demand draft drawn in favour of IGNOU, New Delhi within two months of the date of declaration of result. Requests received after two months of the date of declaration of result will not be entertained. Study Centre is the contact point for you. The University cannot send communications to all the students individually. All the important communications are sent to the coordinators of the study centres and Regional Directors. The Coordinators would display a copy of such important circular/notification on the notice board of the study centre for the benefit of all the students. You are, therefore, advised to get in touch with your Coordinator for day-to-day information about assignments. While communicating with the University regarding examination, please clearly write your enrolment number and complete address. In the absence of such details, the University will not be able to attend to your problems.

Filling up of re-registration form and the examination form are two separate activities: one may not be taken for the other. While the re-registration form is required to be sent to the concerned Regional Director along with requisite fee for pursuing the courses in the next semester, the examination form is to be sent only to Registrar, SR & ED Division at the Headquarters. (Students are advised to retain a photocopy of the form). The University sends study materials and assignments, wherever prescribed, to the students by registered post and if a student does not receive the same for any reason whatsoever, the University shall not be held responsible for that.

In case a student wants to have assignments, he/she can obtain a copy of the same from the Study Centre or Regional Centre or may download it from IGNOU Website www.ignou.ac.in.

The students are specifically instructed to send Examination Forms to Registrar (SR & ED) only and to no other place and they are advised to submit the Registration/Re-registration Forms only at the respective Regional Centres and nowhere else. If any student sends the Registration/Re-registration Forms or Examination Forms at wrong places and thereby misses the scheduled date and consequently a semester/year, he/she will have no claim on the University for regularization.