Q paper goof: NU relents after 40% students come together
Sarfaraz Ahmed | tnn | Dec 25, 2018, 03:54 IST
Nagpur: Responding to Nagpur University (NU) diktat, several students from four different colleges on Monday staged a protest and demanded investigation into out-of-syllabus and ‘wrongly’ graded questions for 20 marks during their Bachelor of Pharmacy third-semester Physical Pharmaceutics-I exam held on December 19.
Soon after the exam last week, some students had visited the NU main building complaining that two questions were not part of the syllabus. But the students were told that 40% of the students need to complain regarding the same to review the question paper.
Around 50 students from city, Wardha and Bhandara districts gathered on NU premises and demanded to meet the Pro-VC Pramod Yeole.
Students said that the Pro-VC assured them that the issue would be placed before an expert and, if needed, a committee will decide how many marks can be allotted for the two questions.
The students requested TOI to not to publish the names of colleges fearing backlash from NU officials who have been keeping not just these but also other cases related exam under wraps.
The strong student presence on the varsity’s main building premises had the MSC guards on toes. Security was beefed up and the main entrance gate was closed for most part of the day. Taking no chances, the guards frisked every visitor before allowing them in and restricted entry in groups.
Later, the aggrieved students also met director of examinations and evaluation Neeraj Khaty at LIT campus on Amravati Road. The director too gave them the same assurance, students said. Khaty and Yeole didn’t answer TOI’s calls and SMS.
In their complaint, the students stated that question number 3(e) and 3(i) were completely out of syllabus. Question 2(a) was also out of syllabus and only related somewhat to a topic in syllabus, they said. They also said that the actual content of the answer would have been insufficient for a 10-mark question and therefore unjustified.
On December 21, TOI had reported about the question paper fiasco and how students were turned away. Then, the exam officials had denied any problem in the BPharm paper claiming no complaint was received from either colleges or students.
Soon after the exam last week, some students had visited the NU main building complaining that two questions were not part of the syllabus. But the students were told that 40% of the students need to complain regarding the same to review the question paper.
Around 50 students from city, Wardha and Bhandara districts gathered on NU premises and demanded to meet the Pro-VC Pramod Yeole.
Students said that the Pro-VC assured them that the issue would be placed before an expert and, if needed, a committee will decide how many marks can be allotted for the two questions.
The students requested TOI to not to publish the names of colleges fearing backlash from NU officials who have been keeping not just these but also other cases related exam under wraps.
The strong student presence on the varsity’s main building premises had the MSC guards on toes. Security was beefed up and the main entrance gate was closed for most part of the day. Taking no chances, the guards frisked every visitor before allowing them in and restricted entry in groups.
Later, the aggrieved students also met director of examinations and evaluation Neeraj Khaty at LIT campus on Amravati Road. The director too gave them the same assurance, students said. Khaty and Yeole didn’t answer TOI’s calls and SMS.
In their complaint, the students stated that question number 3(e) and 3(i) were completely out of syllabus. Question 2(a) was also out of syllabus and only related somewhat to a topic in syllabus, they said. They also said that the actual content of the answer would have been insufficient for a 10-mark question and therefore unjustified.
On December 21, TOI had reported about the question paper fiasco and how students were turned away. Then, the exam officials had denied any problem in the BPharm paper claiming no complaint was received from either colleges or students.
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