32nd Meeting of Academic Council - IGNOU

the prescribed fee for On-Demand Examination in the courses selected by
him/her to appear. The scheme of On-Demand Examination will also be
extended to other Regional Centre and in other courses/programmes, as
soon as the required Question Bank for these programmes/courses is
ready. He also invited the members of the Academic Council and faculty
members for their contribution for development of Question Bank for Ondemand
Examination.
AC 52.2.3
The Academic Council considered and ratified the action taken by the
Vice-Chancellor for starting On-Demand Examination in above
mentioned courses/programmes at the Regional Centres of IGNOU
mentioned in Resolution No: AC 52.2.1 and 52.2.2.
ITEM NO. 3 To consider and approve the Remuneration rates for
Experts/Academics for preparing various types of Questions for
Developing Question Bank for On-Demand Examination, in respect
of various programmes.
AC 52.3.1
It was presented that the NCIDE has been assigned the responsibility to
prepare question bank modalities and launch on Demand examination of
various courses / programmes of the University. To make the project
workable there is an urgent need for development of a big question bank
of various types of questions which are classified in the following groups.
a) MCQ – Multiple Choice Questions - Which will have 1
Mark.
b) VSA – Very Short Answer Type - Which will have 1-2
Marks.
c) SA – Short Answer Type - Which will have 3 to
9 Marks.
d) LA – Long Answer Type - Which will have 10
and above Marks.
It was informed that there is no item-wise rates approved for VSA (Very
Short Answer), SA (Short Answer) and LA (Long Answer) questions.
Only the rates for the MCQ type of questions have been approved i.e., is
Rs. 12/- per question for general certificate courses, which the experts
(whom we invited in our meetings) expressed that the recommendation is
too low for the quality of questions. Where as the approved rates of MCQ
for entrance exams of IGNOU is Rs.50/- per question.
The existing rates for setting of question papers are Rs. 700/- per question
paper of about 10 to 15 questions items of various types and the
remuneration for translation of the question paper is 50% of the
remuneration for setting of a question paper.