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Recommendations

UGC has taken various initiatives to bring in Academic Reforms in Higher Education Institutions
(HEI’s). Evaluation Reforms is one of the major task initiated in this direction. The UGC had
placed a Public Notice on UGC website inviting suggestions from teachers, students, controller
of examinations and experts from the field. Many people have responded to the Public Notice
dated 7 June, 2018 and submitted various suggestions.
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The UGC has also constituted a committee to make recommendations. Based on the suggestions
received, a discussion paper was prepared and a consultative meeting on Examination Reforms
was held on 6 September, 2018.
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In nutshell, all the observations, suggestions and discussions during the Consultative Meeting
are summarized as follows:
a) The students passing out from UG/PG courses are unemployable.
b) In order to prepare employable students, learning outcome based curriculum should be
prepared.
c) The examination and evaluation should test the learning outcome, knowledge gained,
attitude developed and skills matered through it.
d) At present students learn only to achieve marks in the examination which should be changed
and the learning should be to enrich the knowledge, attitude and skill.
e) Evaluation process needs to be made more flexible and the quality of evaluation should be
brought out.
f) The available 13 lakh teachers should be involved to create data base of questions.
g) At least 40% evaluation should be through internal and continuous assessment and the
remaining 60% should be through the terminal examination.
The committee considered all the above points while making the recommendations.
• India being a vast country, having different types of Universities - Central Universities,
State Universities, Deemed Universities, Private Universities, Open Universities, and
Standalone Institutions - a rigid system of examination cannot be followed. However,
the aims and objectives of conducting the examination must be to assess the outcome
of the level of learning of the student; it is necessary that a framework has to be
decided with some flexibility. This will bring uniformity in the examination system and
the relative merit of the candidates based on their learning outcome can be seen.
• The Committee has also considered the various initiatives taken by the Hon’ble Prime
Minister of India, Hon’ble Minister of Human Resource Development, Government
of India and University Grants Commission in the Education domain such as extending
the reach of higher education, technological innovation to measure wider range of
skills and knowledge, digitalization of programmes, transfer of knowledge to enrich
rural India and ICT learning.
Keeping the above in view the Committee makes the following recommendations:

1. Objectives of Examination System, Models of Examination System
which can be followed in India and Structural and Procedural Changes
needed in the examination system:

1.1 Learning Outcome Based Education Framework needs to be implemented at HEIs
to structure and link evaluation right up to Institutional goals. The attainment of

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