DU’s final UG exam date sheet for May-June 2026 schedules examinations on Sundays. The move, aimed at speeding up the process for final year students, has drawn criticism from students and teachers alike.
Delhi University has released the final schedule for its undergraduate examinations for the May-June 2026 session. The exams will begin on May 16 and are set to conclude by June 14. As part of the new schedule, some students will have to appear for their end semester examinations on Sundays as well.
The original schedule had exams running from May 16 up until June 19, a stretch of over a month. The university has now compressed the examination window. Specifically for those students in their sixth and eighth semesters, the examinations will be concluded within 14 days starting from May 16.
The Controller of Examinations, Gurpreet Singh Tuteja, explained the rationale behind this change. “We had to reconsider the dates as semester six and semester eight students may have to appear for other examinations, interviews, or job opportunities,” he told PTI. To compress the schedule within a shorter window, the decision was made to hold papers on alternate days, including Sundays.
Students in their second and fourth semesters will remain affected by the compressed schedule. Their exams will continue after the sixth- and eighth-semester students finish, with all end-semester exams scheduled to wrap up by June 14.
This year’s exam season marks a milestone for the university as the first time eighth-semester examinations will be conducted. The examinations mark the implementation of the four-year undergraduate programme introduced under the National Education Policy (NEP) 2020. The first batch of NEP students are now in their fourth and final year, making the exams a historic moment for the university.
The revised schedule will also accommodate sixth and eighth semester students who have a backlog of papers from previous semesters, shared university officials.
It has also been noted that the revised schedule with alternate-day and Sunday examinations applies only to those students enrolled under the NEP. Those students still giving exams under previous systems, such as the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) and the Learning Outcomes-based Curriculum Framework (LOCF), will follow their original schedules.
Despite statements explaining the rationale from various officials, the decision to hold exams on Sundays has drawn criticism from students and faculty. The move has sparked much online discourse against the schedule.
Students are advised to check the official examination website at exam.du.ac.in for the final date sheet, arranged course-wise, specific to their own programme and semester, under either NEP-UGCF-2022 or CBCS-LOCF, depending on the system they are enrolled under.
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