CHENNAI: Discrepancies in marks released by the University of Madras for the semester examinations conducted in November last year came as a rude shock to the students, here on Tuesday.
Some first year BCom girls from a city college, wondered how their marks in English for externals showed a zero.
They were in for a futher shocok when the university officials told them that their internal marks were not submitted by the college.
However, the officials claimed this was the first time that the university had released all the marks for the students and since the scanning of marks had been outsourced, there was no chance for any human error.
For another first year student in a city college, her 42 marks were not enough to pass as the website declared her as failed. As another student explained: “One website showed XXX in my marks column and another showed some numerical value. The exams I had written well showed poor marks and one I expected to not score well has got a distinction.’’ Students said they had lost hope with the university. “First they delay the results by a few months that we are almost ready to write our next semester exams. Now if we apply for re-valuation, we have no idea whether we will get the results before the end of this semester.
Worse, we have to spend Rs 750 per script while for reappearing an exam we have to pay only Rs 45. So, we are all mulling on just to re-write instead of trying to make sense of this university,’’ explained another student from a city college. On Tuesday, the university in an effort to control the number of requests for revaluation asked the students to show the DD of Rs 750 even to get the application form.
Hence only around 20 applications were sold. Officials at the university said the colleges were at fault for not sending the internal marks on time and that in several instances the students had entered the wrong subject code resulting in confusion. They are bracing for the real impact to be seen on Wednesday.
Vice-Chancellor Prof S Ramchandran was not available for comments.
