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“Some of the regular faculty members couldn’t set question papers for certain courses as they didn’t handle them. By eliminating them from the exam process, the university heads has landed in a Catch-22 situation.Many regular faculty, who were assigned the duty of setting up question papers for the end-semester exams scheduled in April/May 2019, are finding the process difficult, said a source from the university. So, the university has advised the heads of departments (HoDs) to obtain model question papers from teaching fellows who handled the course, along with assessment question papers and last year question papers.“A faculty identified by the HoD will be given all these papers as a base to suitably set the question paper,” the internal communication added. Besides, they were asked to prepare a large number of question papers within a short period of time,” said the source.According to an internal communication (copy accessed by TOI) to staff members, the university admitted that heads of various departments are likely to face issues in identifying alternatives for TFs to set question papers. CHENNAI: Teaching faculty at Anna University have been advised to seek assistance from temporary teaching staff as many found it difficult to set question papers for the forthcoming semester exams Earlier this year, the university’s syndicate, the top-most decision making body, decided not to involve teaching fellows in exam-related work citing security reasons.The university has more than 250 fellows recruited on contractual basis to handle engineering and humanities at undergraduate and postgraduate levels..