Some of us tried to take exams and classes during holidays, and wanted to be strict with exam schedules, and take exams if necessary within the department - not centralisd with many departments at a time. Some of us succeeded in some departments but in most of the cases, we find problems from within, as they don't want to come on Fridays to take exams.

Moreover, why do we allow so many gaps during the exams? We have 10 months long classes with lots of holidays, and later for exams we allow the students minimum 3 days [for 50 marks courses] to 10 days or more just for a subject. I know some students only use the exam gaps for study and get 50% marks or around to pass the course. Strange in any format! Consider the private universities or our SSC or HSC format. They take classes during Fridays or other holidays, and take exams on consecutive days - no gap. But here in DU or other universities, in most of the cases, we feel obliged to give a lot of time for the exams.

Moreover, if you move to the science, and related faculties where departments have practical exams, you will find that in most of the cases, they take the practical exams after the final written exams. After the delayed final written exams, we have to take the viva voce and practical exams and it takes another month or so to complete! Why don't we take those before the written final exams to finish the whole thing early?

Also, for the final year for B.Sc. or masters, we take project or thesis and in most cases, we offer the research topic almost at the end of the year or mid-year!! And no evaluation in between and hence, after the final written exams, and viva voce and final practical assessment, students start seriously to do their project or thesis and then take 4 months to 6/7/8+ months to finish and submit the thesis. [Around 15 years ago, one took 1.5 years almost in one department!] And by this time, we all get the written and practical evaluations from internal and external teachers [as we believe that university teachers will do injustice and so we allow the course teacher to mark the script and then another assessor outside the department to mark the script, which is another reason for the delay in publishing the results in time, let alone the 3rd examiner!], and the thesis paper is submitted to the assessors and it also has two assessments in DU and takes another few months. Sometimes, it happens that we request the assessor lots of times to submit the results and even we sometimes send juniors to knock the respected [busy and sincere!] person to put marks and sign to finish the case. So, this is another source of delay.

My question, why don't we force the students to start the thesis or project when they commence the final year and submit it before the final exams? Of course, some departments do so, but that is not the usual practice.

I have mentioned a few points only. I request all to take initiatives to free the universities from strike, etc. And unless, we, the teachers, become less busy in national politics in the name of different forums, we can't solve these problems.

I humbly request all to think about the problems. Otherwise, our next generation will give us disrespect only.