Belgaum: Results of the pre-university examinations have left many students, parents and teachers a disappointed lot. In most cases, the marks have fallen far below expectations. Within hours after the results were put on the internet on Monday, three students in Bangalore and one in Belgaum committed suicide.

Anant Vithal Hurde (18), a second year student of Chintamani PU College of Arts of Kangrali (B) in the outskirts of the city hanged himself from the ceiling on learning she had failed.

There have also been a few cases in which the students secured double the marks they expected. Students, parents and teachers have raised doubts over the fairness of the valuation process and computer work.

Many students and teachers told The Hindu that the discrepancies were owing to human as well as computer errors.

Aditya Mathad, who secured second rank in PUC first year and topped in the R.L. Science College, Belgaum, was shocked to see zero marks in the internal assessment column for physics. S.V. Dalvai, Head of the Department of Physics, said that some mistake would have crept in while computing the marks, he said.

Achal Kagwad, a student of RLS College, was expecting 95 per cent marks, but got only 72 per cent.

Abhinav Poddar, who scored 83.83 per cent average and 93 per cent for the physics, chemistry, mathematics combination in first year pre-university examination said he had done much better this year, but had scored only 79.67 per cent average and 82.17 per cent for the combination.

More marks

Two students of RLS College have scored much more than they expected. A student secured 66 marks for a subject in which he expected only a pass.

The results of some students have not been available on the internet or at the college.

Some teachers and parents alleged that this was part of an attempt to make additional money from revaluation, re-totalling and issuing photocopies of answer books.

The Directorate of Pre-University Education charges Rs. 200 a subject for re-totalling, Rs. 300 for photocopy and Rs. 750 for revaluation. Given that thousands of students were planning to seek photocopies and apply for re-totalling or re-valuation, the directorate would make good money, they alleged.

Students and parents were not ready to accept the explanation offered by the board, citing technical reasons for the delay in announcing the results.

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