The Bar Council of India (BCI) has issued guidelines for the promotion of law students to the next year and the criteria for law exams amid the COVID-19 crisis.
The BCI has decided to cancel all the law examination throughout the country except for the final year students, will be promoted on the basis of their previous year’s marks and marks obtained in the internal examination of the current year.
The final year students can be evaluated based on an online or based on project work, research work, or performance in previous semesters but the final decision has been left with the universities.
The BCI, which regulates law education, has said institutions may allow students to write a project report/research paper for each paper of the final year or they may adopt a foolproof method to double the internal marks of the semester exams already held for such year.
However, BCI clarified that after reopening of colleges/universities, the institutions may conduct the end semester examination with respect to the year from which the students have been promoted, within a reasonable period of time, though such promoted students shall continue to study in the year to which they have been promoted.
"The safety and health of the students should not be compromised at any cost. Universities are instructed to maintain the highest academic standards while conducting the examinations," the statement said.
