The COVID-19 pandemic and months-long lockdown prompted several states to rearrange their academic curriculum and cancel final-year college and university examinations, deciding instead to award degrees to students through internal assessments and other evaluation mechanisms such as calculating the average of marks obtained in tests/semesters held before the coronavirus outbreak. Difficult times, desperate measures? Perhaps. But such unconventional graduations—a “corona degree”—may have serious downsides. Like, a post-Covid graduate’s certificate would mention that his final marks were averaged out. Effectively meaning he didn’t take the final exam. So, in such a scenario, how much weight would such a degree carry at a future job interview? Besides, is such a degree legal?