Nagpur: Nagpur University (NU) has granted a one-time final opportunity to engineering students who have failed their second-year examinations and are currently ineligible to enter fourth year, allowing them temporary admission to the fourth year so they can appear for their pending second-year papers in the upcoming Winter-2026 examinations.The decision, taken by university’s academic council at its meeting on August 10, was notified on August 14. The move provides relief to students under the Choice Based System (CBS) and Choice Based Credit System (CBCS) who otherwise face a break in their academic progression because of uncleared second-year subjects.Under the special provision, students will be permitted to take temporary admission to the fourth year in their affiliated colleges solely for appearing for their second-year examinations scheduled in Winter-2026. The university has clarified that this is a special measure and will operate independently of its existing ‘Carry-On’ provisions.The temporary admission will be confirmed if the student clears pending second-year examination. However, if the student fails, the temporary admission will automatically stand cancelled.The university has also specified that such students will be governed by scheme of examination (S.O.E.) in force at the time they eventually clear the examination, rather than necessarily the scheme under which they originally appeared.Students seeking the benefit will have to submit a mandatory undertaking on a Rs100 stamp paper, signed by the student, parent and college principal. The undertaking has to be submitted to respective affiliated college to enable temporary admission and registration for Winter-2026 examination.The decision comes after students had raised concerns over academic consequences of being denied progression because of uncleared papers, particularly when they had otherwise reached later stages of their engineering programme.
