[redandblack]

When I studied engineering in India, we never put our names in the finals at college. Every one gets a exam id and that goes in the answer sheets.

Also, it is never your professor who grades you - the answer sheets are collected and lecturers/professors will correct them at the state level across all the engineering colleges in my state.

I do not know how it is now as there has been an explosion of colleges in the state. But expect the standardized tests are similarly conducted.

[kwhitefoot]

A lot of bachelor's degrees these days are awarded on the basis of modules with no finals. For instance when I did a course on C# a few years ago in Norway that was worth 6 points (I got full marks :-) ). If I had done another 29 modules of similar difficulty I would have got 180 points and been awarded a BSc in Computer Science.

It's quite different from the way it was when I studied physics in the 1970s when only the final counted. Annual exams only determined whether one was allowed to continue but had no effect on the class of degree that was awarded.

[user_7832]

As far as I know even now it's the same for government universities (eg Delhi/Mumbai Uni). But private unis may just have a few/one profs grade everything.