APPOINTMENT OF EXAMINERS

1.  Appointment of Question Paper Setters and Examiners:-

(1)   Appointment of Question Paper Setters and Examiners shall be made by the Controller of Examinations, with the approval of the Vice-Chancellor, from panels approved by the Syndicate after considering the recommendations of the Boards of Studies and Faculties.

(2)   The panels for each Examination shall consist of names of not less than 1/5 in excess of the probable numbers required for each subject.

  2.    Cancellation of Appointments: -

          It shall be competent for the Controller of Examinations with approval of the Vice-Chancellor to cancel the appointment of any Question Paper Setter or Examiner without assigning any reason therefor and the matter may be reported to the Syndicate.

  3.     Disqualification: -

          The Syndicate shall have the power to disqualify for a specified period or permanently any person from question paper setting or examinership for inefficiency, misconduct, malpractice or negligence or for disobeying the instructions issued by the University or to withdraw recognition as a teacher.

  4.     Categories of Examiners and their duties: -

          The categories of Examiners and their duties shall be decided by the Syndicate, from time to time.

  5.     Question Paper Setters: -

(1)    No person engaged in teaching work in any College maintained by or affiliated to the University shall ordinarily be appointed to set question papers.

(2)    No person shall be appointed as a Question Paper Setter unless he has had seven years’ teaching experience in a College or University in the subject concerned.

(3)    Question Paper Setters shall be appointed for one year and shall be eligible for reappointment for successive years following the year of first appointment.

(4)    The Vice-Chancellor shall be competent to approve appointments as Question Paper Setters waiving the above requirements in exceptional cases and his action shall be reported to the Syndicate.

  6.     Compilation of a list of teachers: -

          A list of teachers employed in the affiliating Colleges and Departments of the University arranged in the order of subjects shall be compiled from the Register of Recognised Teachers or from the returns submitted by the Colleges and Departments of the University and kept up-to-date containing the following: -

(a)    name of Teacher ;

(b)    College in which he is working ;

(c)    Age ;

(d)    qualification, with class and date ;

(e)    present grade and date of appointment to it ;

(f)     class and subject in which he teaches ;

(g)    number of years of teaching experience in the College; and

(h)    previous appointments as examiner, etc.

  7.     Term of appointment: -

(1)    Examiners shall be appointed for one year and shall be eligible for reappointment in two successive years following the year of first appointment.

(2)    Examiners who have held office for three successive years whether for the same or different Examinations shall not ordinarily be re-appointed until after the lapse of two years;

Provided that the number of new Examiners appointed in any year who have not previously been Examiners shall not exceed one half of the total number appointed to a Board:

Provided further that this Ordinance may be relaxed by the Syndicate in the case of Examinations in subjects in which sufficient number of competent examiners are not available.

  8.     General Conditions for appointments of Examiners: -                                                                                  

(1)    Ordinarily persons with a minimum teaching experience of three years in a College or University are eligible for first appointment as Examiners.

Explanation: - Seven year’s standing at the Bar may be considered as equivalent to three years’ teaching experience for Examinations in Law.

(2)    Examiners appointed under one Board shall not ordinarily be appointed to any other Board in the same year, except for reasons to be recorded.

(3)    For selecting new Examiners, the first preference shall be given to those who had five years or more of teaching experience and who had not been appointed so far.  The second preference shall be given to those who had finished one term of examinership which is ordinarily three years and who had a break of three years or more.  The third preference shall be given to those who had examinership for two terms and had breaks of three years or more.  The next preference shall be given to those who had breaks of two years or less;

Provided that for the appointment of Chairman, Board of Examiners, the rule of preference may be waived for reasons to be recorded.

(4)    Members of the Syndicate shall not be offered Examinerships.

(5)    No person above the age of 65 shall be appointed or allowed to continue as an Examiner.

(6)    No person who has ceased to be a teacher for three years or more shall be appointed or allowed to continue as an Examiner.

1.       Board of Question Paper Setters:-

The Controller of Examinations shall with the approval of the Vice-Chancellor constitute every year a Board of Question Paper Setters for each subject or group of subjects for which Examinations are likely to be held;

provided that no person shall ordinarily be appointed to more than one Board.

2.       Duties of the Board of Question Paper Setters:-

The duties of the Board of Question Paper Setters shall be :-

(i)   to consider and scrutinise the papers set in the subject and to see whether the prescribed standards have been kept and whether the scope of the questions are within the prescribed syllabus; and

          (ii)   to do such other duties as may be prescribed by the Syndicate from time to time.

3.       Committee of Boards of Examiners: -

(1)   The Controller of Examinations shall with the approval of the Vice-Chancellor constitute a Board of Examiners for each subject or group of subjects for which examinations are likely to be held: provided that no person shall ordinarily be appointed to more than one Board.

(2)   Each Board shall have a Chairman, who shall be appointed with the approval of the Vice-Chancellor by the Controller of Examinations.

4.       Duties of the Board of Examiners:-

       The duties of the Board of Examiners shall be -                                      

(i)    to pass the results of the Examinations and forward them to the Controller of Examinations for submission to the Syndicate; and

(ii)   to do such other work as may be assigned to the Board by the Controller of Examinations or the Vice-Chancellor or the Syndicate from time to time.

5.       Committee of Boards of Examiners:-

It shall be competent for the Controller of Examinations to constitute Committees of Boards consisting of the Chairman or Chief Examiners in the same or different subjects which form part of the Examination for the purpose of consolidating the marks obtained by candidates in different parts

of the Examination.