COLLEGE EXAMINATION

EXTRACT FROM

THE ORISSA CONDUCT OF EXAMINATION ACT 1993.
(THE ORISSA GAZETTE, Friday, March, 1998,
LAW DEPARTMENT NOTIFICATION, The 11th March 1998)

1. DEFINITIONS

In this act, unless the context otherwise requires.

a) “Recognised Examination” means an examination specified in the schedule and includes evaluation, tabulation publication of result and all other matters connected therewith.

b) “Unfair means” in relation to in recognized examination means taking or giving or attempting to take or give any help other than one permissible any, under the Rules applicable there to from any material written, recorded or printed or relayed, or from any person in any form whatsoever.

2. PROHIBITION OF USING UNFAIR MEANS AT EXAMINATIONS

a) No person shall adopt or take recourse to unfair means at any recognized examination.
b) No person shall aid, abet or conspire in the use of unfairness at any recognized examination.



3. RESTRAINT ON COPIES OF QUESTION PAPER AND OFFER OF INFORMATION.

No person, who is not lawfully authorized or permitted by virtue of his duties to do so, shall before the time fixed for distribution of copies of a question paper of exminees at a recognized examination.

a) Procure, attempt to procure or possess, such question paper or a portion or copy thereof or.

b) Impart or offer to impart information which he knows or has reason to believe is related to or is derived from or has a bearing upon such question paper.


4. RESTRICTION ON FAKE PAPERS :

No person shall procure, possess, distribute or otherwise publicize or cause to be published any question paper as being the one purporting to be one that is to be given or likely to be given at an ensuing recognized examination.


5. PROHIBITION OF LOITERING ETC. NEAR EXAMINATION CENTRE ETC.

No person, save in the discharge of his duties shall
a) during the hours when a recognized examination centre of where any evaluation or tabulation work relating to a recognized examination is done and

b) two hours preceding the commencement of such examination, evaluation or tabulation work on any examination is conducted or evaluation or tabulation work done committed or caused to be committed any of following acts within the premises wherein the recognized examination is held or at any place where evaluation or tabulation work is

done at any public or private place within a distance of one hundred meters of such premises or the place of evaluation or tabulation work namely :
i) loitering
ii) distributing or otherwise publicizing any paper or other matter relating to such examination or
iii) indulging in such other activity as is likely to be pre-judicial to the conduct of such examination or is likely to affect the secrecy thereof provided that nothing contained in this section shall apply in respect of bonafide activities or examinees appearing at the examination which is conducted at such examination centre.

6. Whoever contravenes any of the provisions of the above section shall on conviction, be punished with imprisonment for a term which may extend to three months or with fine which may extend to three thousand rupees but shall not be less than five hundred rupees or with both.

Examination Question Pattern (Suggestive)

The end semester examination will be of three hours irrespective of marks.

For subject without having practical

full marks are 100 per paper out of which 20 marks is allotted for Mid-Semester Examination (Internal) and 80 marks for end semester examination.

The question papers shall be divided into two parts such as Group-A & Group-B.
Group-A will carry 10 short questions of two marks each. The answer should be within two sentences.

There shall be 5 long type questions in Group-B with one alternative each have to be attempted and all questions shall be of equal value (12 marks X 5).



For subject without having practical

full marks are 100 per paper out of which 20 marks is allotted for Mid Semester Examination, 50 is for End Semester Examination and 30 is for practical.

The question papers shall be divided into two parts such as Group-A & Group-B.

Group-A will carry 10 short questions of one mark each. The answer should be within two sentences.

There shall be 5 long-type questions with one alternative each have to be attempted for subjects having practical. The questions shall be of equal value (8 marks X 5)

Practical will carry 30 marks out of which 10 will be for records.

a. Model answers for long questions should be between 700 - 1000 words.

9. Each Dept. shall have a designated Teacher in-charge of Examination to be decided by the Principal in addition to the Controller of Examinations of the College (applicable to autonomous colleges).

10. The Internal Evaluation would be the sole responsibility of Teacher offering the course.

11. Suitable modifications may be made by the Autonomous Colleges keeping in view the UGC Guideline for Autonomous Colleges, University Guidelines from time to time and State Govt. Guidelines from time to time.