new delhi with the delhi universitys entrance test for admission to 10 undergraduate and 86 masters and mphilphd programmes scheduled to begin on september 6 students are a worried lot many of them have raised concerns that amidst the raging covid epidemic if they miss out on these exams they might lose an academic yearthe computerbased entrance exams which are conducted by national testing agency will begin on september 6 and end on september 11 they will be held in three slots starting from 8am at 24 centres across the countrya total of 147 lakh students have applied for the masters courses while 21699 are vying for the mphilphd programmes the undergraduate entrance exams are being held for three management courses journalism education and a few specialised programmes mostly students who couldnt score above 90 in the class xii board exams have applied for such coursessiddhant chohan an aspirant for ma social work said the very thought of sitting for an entrance exam in this weather wearing a mask and gloves for two hours is taxingstudents are also worried about travel restrictions and accommodation as hotels still continue to remain shut at many places the centres are located in select cities for instance in uttar pradesh the centres are located only in varanasiclashing of entrance exam dates is another worry for the aspirants dus joint admission test for management courses is scheduled on the same day as common law admission test clat i have applied for clat jat and a course at iimindore all the entrance exams are scheduled for september 7 im in a quandary as to which one i should appear for i wish the authorities had decided on the schedule after coordinating with each other said a studenta few du students also raised concerns about giving the entrance exams of masters courses as their final year undergraduate exam in penpaper mode was scheduled for later on september 14 i could not give the online open book examinations i dont know if ill be eligible to give the entrance exam for a masters course as ill still not have given my undergraduate final year exam i hope the university issues a circular and provides some clarification on this issue said dhiren shah a finalyear political science studentwith nta also issuing a schedule for jee neet and other university exams students protested against the decision on twitter with the hashtag protestagainstexamsincovid earlier the students had moved supreme court for postponing the exam but the petition was dismissedjnusu president aishe ghosh said the government has completely disregarded the demands of students though they highlighted their grievances how are students affected by covid or floods supposed to sit for the exams