Karnataka - Bangalore

No mistake in evaluation: VC

Bangalore: Of the 538 students who had scored single digit marks in chemistry in the fifth semester B.Sc examination, the marks of only three students have increased from nine to 21, said Bangalore University Vice-Chancellor H.A. Ranganath.

The vice-chancellor told presspersons here that the answer scripts of the 538 students were valued by a group of experts. “The Syndicate took a decision in that regard. There is nothing to indicate that there was a mistake in evaluation of the answer scripts,” he said.

There was a marginal difference in the marks awarded to the remaining students. “I was worried that so many students had scored single digit marks in the fifth semester examination. The Syndicate approved the decision to get the answer scripts re-valued and none of the students had to apply for it,” he said.

Prof. Ranganath said that the university would now study the pattern of distribution of the students who had failed. “We will identify colleges from which maximum students have failed and then analyse the reasons,” he added. Allegations had been levelled against the examination process by the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad which staged a protest on behalf of the students who had failed in chemistry. Student leaders had claimed that the valuation was done in a hurry and the students had been cheated in the bargain.

A student who did not want to be named said: “With the university washing its hands off the issue, the students will now be forced to take the examination in December. We are fed up of fighting with the university; it yields us no results. Even our parents have given up and are advising us to move on and write the supplementary examination.”

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