bengaluru the final examinations for mbbs students scheduled for january 2021 have been postponed to february and marchexaminations for firstyear students will be held from february 8 for secondyears students from march 2 and for thirdyear students from march 23medical students had protested and organised twitter campaigns demanding their annual examinations to be held in january 2020 be postponed they had complained of insufficient time for preparation ineffective online classes and a lack of practical exposure more than 25000 medicos had participated in the twitter campaign and a delegation of aidso karnataka met the vicechancellor of rajiv gandhi university of health sciences rguhs submitted a memorandum demanding postponement of examsdr s sacchidanand vicechancellor rguhs said the postponement is based on guidelines provided by the national medical commission he said that not every student was against exams in january and the delay will have a cascading effect on the academic calendar there is already a division between batches we have conducted exams for odd batches because we need interns to join us as soon as possible he said students in odd batches are those who have backpapers