Colleges worry about completing syllabus

MUMBAI: Even as students across colleges are eagerly awaiting their nine-day Ganeshotsav break, starting September 4, colleges are worried about finishing the curriculum

MUMBAI: Even as students across colleges are eagerly awaiting their nine-day Ganeshotsav break, starting September 4, colleges are worried about finishing the curriculum before the upcoming examination. What has aggravated the situation is the sudden announcement of tentative dates of examination for all the first-year courses — traditional as well as self-financed — by the University of Mumbai (MU), which begin anytime between the first and the third week of October.

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“Regular lectures for our firstyear students began in the last week of July and in less than three months, the university plans to hold exams for these students. If one counts the holidays in this semester, we don’t even get two months to finish the portion,” said the BMM coordinator of a south Mumbai college.

While the varsity has made it clear that due to the long Ganeshotsav vacation, colleges will have to cut short Diwali vacation, colleges think this will not help because BSc-IT examinations will begin as early as October 5.

University registrar MA Khan said, “Committees have been set up to put together question papers and they will be released soon. The timetable is such that all exams will not be held together.”