On Monday, October 26, the rescheduled examinations for the regular students of the distance education wing of the University of Mumbai commenced.
The Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL) had earlier postponed their examinations after a “cyber-attack” on the exam server. In the past, the papers were to be held on October 6 and 7. However, IDOL postponed the final-year examinations for the arts, commerce and science streams.
As per reports, out of the 10,000 third year Bachelor in Arts (BA) and Bachelor in Commerce (BCom) students of the Institute of Distance and Open Learning (IDOL) registered to appear for their final year (summer 2020) exams, 84.07 per cent students appeared for the first exam on Monday.
Meanwhile, in a press conference, which was virtually held last week, Uday Samant, the state minister for higher and technical education, stated that an investigation will be carried on with regards to the instances of university students not being able to appear for their online examinations in the month of October due to technical glitches.
The incident of technical malfunction which occurred in the first week of October had left thousands of students from IDOL anxious as they were unable to appear for their final year exams leaving them stressed.
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