Step-by-Step Guide for using the Samarth Portal for Open-Book Examination (OBE) .

 

Step 1: One Time Self Registration to OBE Portal

• The students appearing for the examinations are required to register herself/himself on the OBE portal. Initially, the students are required to fill in basic details like Name, Enrolment number (optional), Programme name, Date of birth, Examination roll number, registered E-mail or mobile phone number. (If possible, please try to make Roll no field mandatory as it is the only unique identifier).

• On submission of the above details, the students will receive an OTP on their registered E-mail/Mobile number. Students for the first time will require to insert password to login to the portal. Students can login with their Examination roll number and password to locate the mock test paper.

Step 2: On the Date of Final OBE Examination

• Students are required to login to the examination portal with their Examination roll number and password at least 30 minutes prior to the start of their examination.

• Once the student login to the portal, a clock on the students’ screen will display the time left in for opening of the question paper.

• Students should read the instructions printed on the question paper for which they are appearing.

• The Question Paper download button will be visible in the beginning of examination. The Question paper will be released on the portal at the commencement of a particular session of examination as per the date-sheet released by DU.

• Students are required to click on the download button to download the question paper on the Desktop/Laptop/Phone and can also take the printout, if required on the day of examination.

• If in any case, a student faces any difficulty in downloading the question paper from the portal, she/or he may request contact her/his college/department Nodal officers to get the same.

• As and when the student downloads the question paper, the time left for the end of the examination will be displayed on the students’ screen.

• It is mandatory for each and every student to download question paper from portal only. Do not share through Whatsapp, Email or any other means.

Step 3: Time Tracking

• The total duration of the examination shall be of Two hours Thirty minutes which will include two hours for answering the questions and additional thirty minutes for IT related activities such as scanning and uploading the answer sheets.

• Once the question paper is downloaded, the students will be allowed to upload the answer sheets within the stipulated time i.e. two hours and thirty minutes for all students.

• If uploading is not possible for any reason during the given time as mentioned above, students must contact her/his college/department Nodal Officers for the same. However, this option should be used only in case of extreme situation only. The students submitting the scripts through alternate medium i.e. other than OBE Portal may face delay in declaration of effect their results due to verification and validation process of submission.

Step 4: Answering the Question Paper

• Students will write the answers to the questions on provided answersheet in own handwriting (ruled or plain). The answers are to be written using blue pen only.

• Students should use separate sheets to answer each question, since answer sheets are to be uploaded on the Portal in a single PDF so that evaluation can be conducted smoothly.

Step 5: Uploading Answer Sheets

• The students will scan the written and blank pages of the answers question-wise (one single PDF file) and upload each file on the OBE portal. Size of each file should not exceed 10MB.

• To upload the answer sheet, the student will log in to the examination portal and select the tab “Upload Answers”. Once the answer sheets are uploaded, no further changes can be made.

• In case if by mistake, a student uploads a wrong answer sheet she/he can make corrections with in the specified duration of the OBE i.e. two hours thirty minutes for students. However, once the answer sheets are submitted and the student logs out, no change in the uploaded answer sheet/s will be possible.

• The student shall be required to submit a declaration regarding UFM through the button provided on the portal before uploading of the scanned images of answer scripts.

Step 6: Answer Sheet Submission

Once the students upload all the scanned answer sheets against their respective paper, they should click the button for the UFM declaration and a confirmation for submission and log out from the portal. On successful submission of the answer sheets the students will be notified via email/SMS.

General Guidelines

Discipline Specific Electives (DSE): The student shall appear in this paper/course based on alphabetical order. One paper should be attempted out of displayed papers on the portal (as per information filled in examination form) on one day of Examination as per the datesheet notified.

Generic Electives (GE): The student shall appear in this paper/course as per datesheet notified and information given in Examination form.

Skill Enhancement Course (SEC): The student shall appear in this paper/course as per datesheet notified and information given in Examination form.

Duration of Examinations: Duration of Examinations is O2 Hours + 30 Minutes for all students.

Limit of uploading each file for answer scripts on the portal is 10 MB.