4.2. The Chief Examiner

The Chief-Examiner is responsible for the entire process of examination within a course/module. HoD or Course Coordinator (CC) shall get       appointed as the Chief Examiner. If the HoD/CC is not available during the examination & preparation period (See examination phases in          Part 2 of the Manual), any other competent internal person shall be appointed the Chief Examiner. The same person may preferably be                 selected as the Supervisor (Chief Invigilator) if the examination is conducted in a single Examination Hall.

Duties and Responsibilities of the Chief Examiner:

1. Developing the Assessment Blueprint/Content Validity Grid with the help of other appointed examiners. Assessment Blueprint shall cover all components of the assessment that has a summative value (e.g., continuous assessments, end-course theory assessments, practical/clinical assessments etc.).

2. Inviting other examiners (First Examiners) to set all types of questions/assessment tasks according to the Assessment Blueprint.

3. Developing and adding questions to question-banks in a timely manner, if practised at faculties.

4. Conducting and chairing Pre-Scrutiny (Moderation) Board meetings to finalize questions/assessment tasks (MCQ, SAQ, SEQ, EMQ, OSCE/OSPE etc.). These questions may be added to a question bank if available. Or to work with a specifically appointed internal moderators to achieve this task (if not done in Moderation Board). (See details under Moderation [Section 5]).

5. Selecting questions from question banks based on the Assessment Blueprint (if a question bank is practised)

6. Conducting continuous assessments with the relevant examiners and finalizing marks before the due date with appropriate moderation of marking (see moderation in Section 5) and releasing the results to students within the stipulated period.

7. Attending final Scrutiny Board meeting (final moderation) with the draft end-course question papers and the Assessment Blueprint.

8. Signing record/log books of students for attendance and completion of continuous assessments (where relevant).

9. Finalizing the set examination papers/assessments to be delivered as per the recommendations during moderation.

10. Making the decision using the marks of the First Examiner & and the Second Examiner with the guidance of the External Moderator if necessary (see under duties and responsibilities of the External Moderator).

11. Making the final mark sheet with the marks received for all components officially through the Examination Unit/DR/SAR/AR of the faculty and proposing grades based on the raw marks following the grading policy & procedure of the faculty at a pre-result Board Meeting with all examiners of the Course (see Section 5.4 under moderation of marking and grading).

12. Obtaining the service of the internal specific moderator/s if appointed and available in setting, marking & grading.

13. Submission of finalized marks to the Examination Unit/HoD/DR/SAR/AR before the deadline.

14. Attending the Final Results Board meeting (final moderation of marking and grading by the panel of examiners) representing the Course with the results and analyses finalized at the Pre-Results Board.

15.    Sending the confidential Chief-Examiner’s report (Annexure 8.18) to the Dean of the Faculty within two weeks from the date of releasing results.

16. The Chief Examiner may act as a First Examiner (in such situation, all moderation of setting and marking of assessment tasks set by the person should only be done by the Moderator/Moderation Board, and the Chief Examiner shall only facilitate moderation).