chennai while some city colleges are planning to go ahead with their online semester exams during the lockdown state universities like madras university and anna university are likely to conduct their exams only after the lockdown is overdue to the assembly elections in the state many colleges had scheduled their online exams from may 3 the tamil nadu government announced lockdown from may 10 to 24the directorate of collegiate education on sunday asked the particulars from colleges including the number exams completed so far and number of days needed to complete the remaining exams to take a call on online examsloyola college has completed four exams and three exams are scheduled till may 15 students and faculty members want to complete the remaining online exams as per the schedule since the exam is conducted online students need not come out of their houses to write the exam the staff members can also invigilate the exams from their houses so we would like to continue with the exams said thomas amirtham principal of the collegestudents will write the exams in pen and paper mode and scan the answer sheets and send it to colleges online the 90minute exams will be monitored online by faculty membersguru nanak college asked the faculty members to prepare to conduct and monitor exams from their houses unless the government says no to conducting online exams we will continue with our exams as per the schedule said m g ragunathan principal of the college as per the schedule the exams will be conducted till june 5however some colleges like dg vaishnav college postponed their online semester exams to june we planned to conduct online exams from may 17 but all students may not have internet connections at their houses so we have decided to postpone it said s santhosh baboo principal of dg vaishnav collegemeanwhile colleges like madras christian college and womens christian college have completed their examsmadras university also planned to start the online semester exams for affiliated colleges from may 17 however exams were delayed due to setting question papers and nonpayment of exam fees by students we will start the online exams only after the lockdown for affiliated college students an official from the university saidanna university announced a retest for students who could not appear for exams due to technical glitches from may 17 for students studying in its four campuses the university has not taken any decision on the retest so far sources in the university said for affiliated colleges the university is yet to schedule exams for be btech students due to the confusion over the delay in deciding the mode of exams the exams are likely to be scheduled only after the lockdown