{"id":14974,"date":"2025-11-25T13:43:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-25T08:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/?p=14974"},"modified":"2025-11-25T16:18:31","modified_gmt":"2025-11-25T10:48:31","slug":"how-can-i-make-a-subject-mandatory-to-optional-in-the-mid-of-academic-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/how-can-i-make-a-subject-mandatory-to-optional-in-the-mid-of-academic-session\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I make a subject mandatory to optional in the mid of academic session?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can modify a subject\u2019s type from <strong>Mandatory<\/strong> to <strong>Optional<\/strong> through the Subject Setup page.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Navigate to <strong>Settings &gt; Student &gt; Examination &gt; Subject Setup<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Select the <strong>Class<\/strong> where the change is required.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>From the list of subjects, choose the mandatory subject you want to update.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Important Note:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>If marks or grades have already been entered for that subject, you <strong>cannot<\/strong> change it to optional.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>In such cases, you must <strong>first delete the existing mark entries<\/strong>. <em>(First take the backup)<\/em><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After deleting the marks, you will be able to switch the subject type to <strong>Optional<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"476\" src=\"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12-1024x476.png?wsr\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14978\" srcset=\"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12-1024x476.png 1024w, https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12-300x139.png 300w, https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12-768x357.png 768w, https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12-1200x557.png 1200w, https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/image-12.png 1352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Video Tutorial :<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video controls src=\"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/B170-02_How-can-I-make-a-subject-mandatory-to-optional-in-the-mid-of-academic-session.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can modify a subject\u2019s type from Mandatory to Optional through the Subject Setup page. Important Note: Video Tutorial :<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[254],"tags":[1106,255],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-14974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-subject-setup","tag-exam-configuration","tag-subject-setup"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17328,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14974\/revisions\/17328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14974"},{"taxonomy":"post_folder","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/helpcenter.nexterp.in\/helpcenter\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_folder?post=14974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}