Taking note of the fact that several engineering students, who are part of the Choice Based Credit System (CBCS), are failing after the re-evaluation process, the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) has tweaked its re-evaluation norms.
The new norms state that if the re-evaluation marks are less than what a student had scored originally, the original marks will be retained. The university issued a notification last week after the decision was taken at a board of studies meeting. The new system will be come into effect with the June/July 2017 examination, the results of which were announced by the university in the last week, and will be applicable to both undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Candidates can apply for re-evaluation from Monday.
As per the earlier rule, marks issued after the re-evaluation were being considered final without taking into account those obtained in the first valuation. Satish Annigeri, Registrar (Evaluation) of the university, said that the university decided to revert to the old system, which is followed for non-CBCS systems, as they found that students were failing after re-evaluation.
There are 1.2 lakh students studying in CBCS courses in the first and second years for the 2016-2017 academic year. Rahul R., a second year CBCS student, said that this would benefit them and would encourage more students to apply for re-evaluation.
However, a professor of a city-based engineering college said, “The pass percentage of CBCS students is very low. They are doing this to improve the pass percentage and not focusing on strengthening and improving the system.”