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Post-Pandemic Offline Examinations: Hobson’s Choice

  “The entire life is an exam that never ends until the life itself ends.”― R.H Ork After two years of the COVID-19 Pandemic, the University decided to switch to offline examinations. The news wasn’t new to the students. Before the judgement was approved, there were many discussions, arguments, and concessions. The students kept asking for multiple-choice examinations as they had during the pandemic. They felt it wasn’t fair that a part of the session was completed online during January and February early this year for a short period when there was yet another lockdown due to the brief third wave of the Covid 19 pandemic. The faculty feared that the Pandemic and the digital world would arrest the students’ brains. The students had forgotten to think critically and write. They could type text messages quickly with emoticons and alphabets in the shortest possible form. Many of them didn’t know how to spell basic words as they were used to the cellphone autocorrect. None of the protests w