Overview

• The tentative date sheet schedules undergraduate exams from December 10, 2025, to January 30, 2026, while even-semester classes are set to start on January 2, creating nearly a month of overlap.
• Teacher groups including the DTF and DUTA say the plan is unworkable because staff would have to teach, invigilate, evaluate, and conduct practicals at the same time.
• Faculty warn that concurrent exams for SOL and NCWEB, with a combined enrolment near nine lakh, will strain classrooms and invigilation capacity and could push initial weeks of instruction online.
• Educators argue the overlap would compromise teaching quality and risk delays in results, and they are urging an extended winter break so classes resume only after exams conclude.
• Controller of Examination Gurpreet Singh Tuteja said the schedule is the first draft and that DU is trying to reduce the examination period, with no revised calendar yet announced.