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| The photo copy which says the student has secured 68 marks |
Ponder this: How much does it cost to get 18 sheets of paper photocopied? A maximum of Rs 18 assuming you pay Re 1 per copy. However, the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) collects a fee of Rs 550 from students who seek photocopies of their answer scripts.Sadly, students have to pay up even when it is the university’s fault.
68 TURNS 17
On Sept 14, the VTU announced the results of fourth semester BE course. Prashanth (name changed for obvious reasons), who had fared well throughout his engineering course, found he had failed in one of the subjects.
He was shocked, even shattered, for he had never seen a fail under his name till this day. He promptly applied for a photocopy of his answer script. After around two months of nail-biting anxiety, the time VTU takes to photocopy 18 pages of your answer paper, the copy he got revealed 68 marks written clearly by the evaluator in
big bold letters.
How did 68 become 17 in the final result? Nobody knows. Whom to ask? Nobody knows. What happens to the Rs 550 (photocopy fees) plus Rs 450 (revaluation fees)? Again, nobody knows. And then, what about the mental agony the student had to undergo as a consequence of the wrong result?
MORE GLARING ERRORS
Another such case (scores of cases happen every year and go unreported), is of a BE fifth-semester student Sushanto K R (name changed), who got just 14 marks for a certain paper. Aghast, he applied for a photocopy and revaluation of his answer sheet. The photocopy showed 63 marks, but the revaluation saw only a four marks increase, which made it 18. Now his only option is to go in for a challenge-revaluation that costs Rs 5,000.
VARSITY HARDLY CARES
What’s happening to all the money? Why are the students repeatedly paying for errors that are clearly committed due to the university’s negligence? God knows. The university’s attitude seems to be: It doesn’t matter that the fault is solely and completely ours. Keep coughing up money if you want to see any justice done by us. Period.
There have been a lot of complaints about the VTU’s sins of omission and commission. There is hard evidence too of all this in the form of answer sheets and final mark cards, but all this has never made the University mend its ways.
Tomorrow, if we see a headline about a bright student committing suicide on seeing a fail certificate under his name, we will debate and discuss over our morning tea the cowardly acts of students nowadays. Sure the student is to blame, but should he be the only one?
DELAYED REIMBURSEMENT
An engineering college principal said, “The revaluation fee is Rs 450 and challenge-evaluation fee is Rs 5,000. If a student gets 16 or more marks after revaluation, he is entitled for 60 per cent refund. In case, if he wants to go for challenge-evaluation, then also he gets only 60 per cent money back. In any case, a student is set to lose 40 per cent of money for the officials’ mistake. Moreover, the student can get back the money only after a wait of a couple of months”.
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13 comments:
brilliant article!!!
Let me tell mine..
I`m a CS student (Mysore VTU region), My 4th semester paper, Analysis and Design of Algorithm, it was a year losing, 5th back subject for the year. Results appeared as 28 out of 100 which was totally unexpected against 35 plus for sure. I had my average marks 16. I was 7 marks short. I thought, as usual must be that the university in some urgency hadn't valuated my paper properly and applied for Revaluation with photocopy by paying Rs 900/-. It crossed 80 days, dint get the photocopy yet even after the revaluation results were announced without any difference between the Old and Final marks. Well, I was still confident that I must clear it off and applied for Challenge Revaluation by paying Rs 5000/-. Please note that the photocopy hadn't arrived yet, when my college staff and the CS dept HOD called and mailed fax continuously, the university said that they have just posted the courier. Anyhow, I got the photocopy after 10 days after applying for Challenge revaluation. For my confidence level to increase, I got it valuated from 7 well experienced lecturers, and I was happy for each one having said that I would surely clear it off at any cost. Within 18 days from the Challenge revaluation application date, the results were announced where 2364 members had applied all over the state. I found my results saying FAIL without any updated marks. I`v uploaded the PDF file so that you can view how irresponsibly VTU has announced the Challenge revaluation results.
download link: http://www.zshare.net/download/51884260c215d3c2/
The results PDF file consisted of columns SlNo, USN, Subject Code, Result. I do not know my marks as to how much I got in Challenge revaluation. It crossed 35 when 7 lecturers valuated it; but when VTU did, it never crossed. Just to read the label "FAIL" did I have to pay 5000+900 rupees approximately? Now, I have lost a year because of the injustice done by VTU. Whom do I question all these, And who would probably answer?
this iresponsiblity by uni can't be tolereated at any cost.....its high time tat all the students stand up and fight aganist this injustice.....
Ok now, my challenge revaluation results hard copy reached college, I said all my college staff verified and said I must get 35 plus for sure..when VTU valuated its 33.. If I had got 2 more marks I would get an year in..lost a year by 2 marks..can you belive that?
Thats one of the worst part of VTU.. Hope things would improve soon..
Why not a group of students get on to fast track High Court on this issue and ask for an inquiry on vtu on this issue and claim for return of the photo copy fee, re-totaling + claim of compensation for mental agony. IT WILL WORK, ONLY IF WE UNITE. We need a CHANGE, lets ask them to reduce the reval fee, photo copy fee & re-totaling fee.
Is this practically possible buddy?
3rd sem mba results are out, and many students have got their Internal Training marks as zero. what does this mean ? how can they give zero as the score for project work ? What should the students do ? should they apply for revaluation ?
Till now there is no news from vtu about this... When it comes to fees they have a deadline for students to pay by due date. When it comes to results and marks cards they take ages to announce/send across.
In another 4 months our mba course will be finished ... and guess what till now we have not received marks cards for 2nd semester.
I really regret joining this university. Till now I had never failed in any exams. Now with the Internal Training Project marked ZERO and failed, I don't know what to do.
they always say you will get the result in next week, it is already 3 weeks now, only false hopes.
What should we do in company interviews ? We will have to tell them our scores. We are on the brink of losing opportunities because of the silly mistakes that VTU has done.
VTU is spoiling the careers of many talented students, by committing silly mistakes.
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