Checklist/Guidelines for OBE

Issued By: Nodal Officer, Examination

Checklist/Guidelines for OBE

You will find

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

We are briefly listing the steps and other instructions/precautions

1. Final date sheet has been uploaded on the college website
2 . Please register on portal to be able to take the exams. How to register is available on the portal
3. Please confirm your papers and their UPC from the OBE login. (Your admit card may not reflect corrections made in Papers/ UPC codes etc)
4. On the Date of of your examination
  • Login to the examination portal with your Examination roll number and password at least 30 minutes prior to the start of their paper
  • In case you are not able to download the question paper from the portal, please write to college on obedecember2020@sscbsdu.ac.in and write your course name (BMS, BBA(FIA), B.Sc. CS) and Unique paper code in the subject of the email . The college shall send the question paper directly to your e-mail address. Please use your email address registered on OBE portal for this

5. Time line

The total duration of the examination shall be of four hours , which includes three hours for answering the questions and one additional hour for IT related activities such as downloading the question paper, scanning and uploading the answer.
  • The total duration of examination for the Divyaang students shall be of six hours
  • If uploading is not possible for any reason during the given time as mentioned above, students can take extra 60 minute time to upload their scripts; however, all such submissions must be accompanied by a representation and will be subject to scrutiny by a committee.
  • Students can submit their script by email at obedecember2020@sscbsdu.ac.in only if the submission through portal is not possible ( a representation along with documentary evidence of none submission to the portal (screen shots) should be provided for such submissions). 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 their results due to verification and validation process of submission.

Answering the Question Paper

  • Students will write the answers to the questions on A-4 size white papers in own handwriting (ruled or plain). The answers are to be written using black or blue pen only.
  • Students will write their Name, Program Name, Semester, Examination Roll Number, Unique Paper Code, Paper title, Date and Time of Examination on the first sheet of every pdf file used for answers. Please number the sheets in continuation as 1 of 15, 2 of 15 etc if total number of sheets is 15
  • Students should use separate sheets to answer each question, since each question is to be saved as a separate pdf file
  • No clarifications can be provided if students have a doubt regarding the question paper. Please write your assumptions and complete the paper

Step 6: Uploading Answer Sheets

  • The students will scan the written pages of the answers question-wise (one PDF file for each question) and upload each file on the OBE portal.Size of each file should not exceed 7MB.
  • 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 4hours/6hours for Divyang. However, once the answer sheets are submitted and the student logs out, no change in the uploaded answer sheet/s will be possible

Step 7: Answer Sheet Submission

Once the students upload all the scanned answer sheets against their respective questions, 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.

OBE Portal Link