The decision comes in the wake of an unanimous decision for abolition of the system by all general secretaries of city colleges.

The new system, in which the university will hold just one 100-mark examination in each subject at the end of the academic year, will replace the old one wherein the university held a 70-mark examination while the colleges held unit tests, tutorials, assignments and practicals for the remaining 30 marks.

It was also decided at the meeting that although tutorials, assignments and other jobs will not be graded by the colleges, students will have to complete these in order to be eligible to appear for the university examination.

According to the new system, students will also be required to secure a minimum of 36 marks out of 100 for a pass certificate. Earlier, when the internal examination system was in force, students required to score a minimum of 25 out of 70 in the university examination.

Students have been protesting since colleges re-opened after the Diwali vacations and general secretaries of all colleges met last week to pass a unanimous decision demanding that just one unit test be held in the academic year.

Earlier, they had tried to stop unit tests from being held in the first semester on the pretext that ATKT examinations were due. This semester, students did not not attend unit tests that were slated to be held since Monday last.

While there are about 700 teachers in the colleges, more than 17,000 students studying in these colleges are unanimous in their decison that they will not settle for anything less than abolition of the unit test system. ``The decision was by the principals and they just proposed this to the university,'' said Sharda, commenting on the decision. On whether the proposal will be put before the Syndicate, he said that the matter will be decided later.