1. After admission and issue of Self Instructional Materials (SIM), the activities related to completion of various evaluation components such as assignments, Term-end Examination, practical, projects, etc., begins which are under the purview of SED. The SED facilitates the students as and when required and redresses the grievances with final action and satisfactory responses through Public Grievance (PG) Portal, i-GRAM, VCO, emails, surface mails, telephone calls and personal visits of students. li>
2. Each year more than 16 lacs students appear for various examinations of the University in both the exam sessions.
3. Approximately 70 lacs assignment awards are updated in the marksheets of the students every year.

Registrar, SED
(Dr. Shachi Shah)

The Student Evaluation Division (SED) of IGNOU is entrusted with the responsibility of conducting the examinations and evaluation for two sessions of examinations in a year both in offline and online modes. With the support of Regional Evaluation Centres, Regional Centres and Schools of Studies, SED has been smoothly conducting the examination work ever since the establishment of the University. Maintaining strict confidentiality in examination matters has been the hallmark of SED. Most of the activities of SED such as filling of examination form, re-evaluation, obtaining scanned copy of answer sheets, award of degree, diploma, and certificate through Digilocker, etc. are available on a click of a button. SED is striving to make full use of information technology for providing student support services for examination related matters.

Registrar, SED
(Dr. Shachi Shah)

The University conducts term-end examinations twice a year in the months of June and December throughout the Country The examination activities performed by the Students Evaluation Division can be divided into the following three phases:

• Pre-Examination Activities
• Activities to Conduct the Examinations
• Post – Examination Activities

Since, the term-end examinations for various courses/programmes are ordinarily held in the months of June and December every year, therefore, students will be free to appear at any of these examinations either for specific courses or for whole programmes provided that the minimum period of study prescribed for the relevant course/programme has elapsed and valid registration of the programme.

However, the students, who take admission to some individual courses in January/ July Semester as per terms of any MOU executed by IGNOU with other University of accredited institution, will be allowed to appear in term-end examination of June/December respectively of the same year so as to enable them to complete the pre-requisite course for their degrees/diplomas from the respective Universities/ accredited institutions. Each candidate will be required to fill in the online examination form and submit the same to the Evaluation Division of the University within the duration notified, and the conduct of examination shall be in accordance with the regulations framed by the University for the purpose.

Keeping in view with the mandate to use technology, the University will conduct on line examination for such programmes and such courses as may be decided from time to time. The online examination will be conducted in the manner as may be laid down by the regulations.

1. The details of Term-End-Examinations for ODL Students from June, 2020, December, 2020, June, 2021, December, 2021, June, 2022, December, 2022, June, 2023, December, 2023 & June, 2024 TEE conducted are as under:

   Session	Exam Centre			Total Courses	Hall Ticket issued to Students	Total Number of Answer Sheets
   	Total	Overseas	JAIL
   June, 2020	720	0	55	1212	364209	850600
   December, 2020	845	19	100	1340	606023	1884015
   June, 2021	766	19	80	1292	405569	1204732
   December, 2021	801	19	89	1699	678594	2591478
   June, 2022	832	19	82	2009	769541	3620768
   December, 2022	836	19	86	2265	628244	2509012
   June, 2023	844	21	87	2684	924728	4222367
   December, 2023	852	19	90	2179	723733	3728129
   June, 2024	878	18	79	2254	847338	5226242
   December, 2024	852	20	89	2442	718969	3902292

2. Term-End-Examinations for GOAL Students from December, 2021 TEE onwards are.

   Session	No. of Student Appeared
   December, 2021	104
   June, 2022	302
   December, 2022	269
   June, 2023	235
   December, 2023	161
   June, 2024	123
   December, 2024	57

3. Term-End-Examinations for Online Programmes (CBT and Pen & Paper Mode) from December, 2021TEE Onwards are:

   Session	No. of Student Appeared	Total No. of Examination Centre
   December, 2021	282	47
   June, 2022	1388	54
   December, 2022	3597	57
   June, 2023	1741	527
   December, 2023	1753	576
   June, 2024	858	61
   December, 2024	720	42

4. Term-End-Examinations for E-Vidya Bharti in Proctored Mode from June, 2023 TEE Onwards are:

   Session	No. of Student Appeared
   June, 2023	2612
   December, 2023	4146
   June, 2024	3705
   December, 2024	3458

5. Entrance Tests for B.Ed. and BSC (N) in 2024
   
   • BSC (N) - Total No. of Student appeared- 4479
   • B.Ed. – Total No. of Students appeared – 27782
6. Entrance Tests for B.Ed. and BSC (N) in 2025
   
   • BSC (N) - Total No. of Student appeared- 3029
   • B.Ed. – Total No. of Students appeared – 24058

Examination Fee details

The details of Fee collected in SED for the following Term-End-Examinations are as given below:

The methods of evaluation for each course/programme involving the combination of two or more components mentioned in the programme of study, including the relative weightage to be assigned to each of those components, shall be prescribed by the Academic Council on the recommendations of the Board of the concerned School of Studies. A student pursuing a programme of study shall be required to submit assignment of each course that constitutes the programme.

The assignments may generally be of two types; those marked by tutors/counsellors and those marked by computer (multiple choice type). The instructions to candidates about the nature and types of assignments and the schedule for their submission shall be prescribed in the relevant programme guide and/or in the course itself. The assignments submitted by the students for successful completion of their programme of study is evaluated by the concerned Learner Support Centre (LSC)/Regional Centre and sent to SED for processing the same and updation of result. The SED processed the following assignments data and updated the result of the student session wise:

In appropriate cases, the University may also prescribed Project, Dissertation, field work, seminars, practicals, or any other techniques/methods for assessment to determine the levels of performance of students pursuing different courses/programmes.

The Project, Practical, Field work, Journal evaluated and processed for other components of the Term-End-Examinations are tabulated below:

Convocations for the purpose of conferring Degrees/Diplomas shall ordinarily be held once a year at Delhi and at such Regional Centre (s), and on such date (s), as may be decided by the Vice-Chancellor. The details of the Convocation held in the years 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024 & 2025 with the detail of Degree and other awards are as under:

SED issued the degree through NAD by directly publishing the data through push off a button was introduced during 35th Convocation held on 26.04.2022. The Degrees of 35th, 36th, 37th & 38th Convocation have been published through NAD in the each Convocation

SED has successfully implemented the issue of Grade Card and Provisional Certificate with Photograph from December, 2023 Term-end-Examination onwards. June 2024 TEE – 1,56,531 and December 2024 TEE – 1,28,319 GC and PC issued.

Exam form filling, Hall ticket issuing, Academic Bank of Credit (ABC), Digilocker (Blockchain technology), Assignment Record Submission Management System (ARSMS), OTP Based Assignment Login Portal to Regional Centres/LSCs, “IGNOU Student Management System” for unfair means for entering data and communication to the students.

The SED has taken new initiatives by development and implementation of various software for operational use such as

• ARSMS (Assignment Record Submission Management System),
• OQPDS (Online Question Paper Delivery System),
• Online Monitoring of Examinees’ Attendance, Despatch of Answer Scripts for evaluation, etc.
• The SED has successfully conducted term-end examinations during the pandemic period. The SED has also conducted the online examinations for international student at Guyana and online programmes.
• Implementation of Special Portal for DECE Students
• Implementation of Online Portal for Practical
• Implementation and Conduct of Online Paper for GOAL Students/E-Vidya Bharti Students through remote proctored mode through Samarth Portal
• The data transmission to Ministry for updation of ABC
• The data transmission to Ministry for NAD/Digi-locker
• Issue of Degree through Block Chain Technology
• ITEP Face to face examination of BA(B.Ed), BCOM(B.Ed), BSc.(B.Ed) was also conducted by the University other than various Term-End-Examinations of ODL/Online/E-Vidya Bharti/GOAL.
• OTP Based Assignment Login Portal to Regional Centres

• Manual on Student Registration and Evaluation Systems