MULTAN, July 10: The Bahauddin Zakariya University will go for the semester system from the next academic session saying goodbye to the old annual examination system.

The decision was taken at a meeting held here on Wednesday under the chairmanship of vice-chancellor Prof. Dr Ghulam Mustafa Chaudhry.

According to a press release, the semester system will be introduced gradually at MA, MSc and M.Phil level from the coming academic session. The semester system is already operational in engineering, agriculture, computer sciences, management sciences and M.Com classes.

Some of the university departments will come under the semester system from October this year, while the rest will adopt this method in the next phase of ‘modernizing the examination system plan’.

The objective behind this development is to save time that goes wasted in preparation of results and to ensure continuation of academic sessions with regularity.

Meanwhile, the university has announced that the BA/BSc results will be declared before Sept 15 in order to start the new post-graduate classes well in time.

The meeting also formed a committee under the chairmanship of Prof. Dr. Muhammad Anwar Chaudhry to bring about changes in the examination system. Other members of the committee are Dr Azra Asghar Ali, Dr Zafar Iqbal, Muhammad Shafiq Chaudhry and Waqar Ahmad Qureshi.