Three attempts and varsity still gets marks wrong

Engineering students floored with 3 marksheets in succession, each goofier than last

Engineering students floored with 3 marksheets in succession, each goofier than last

THE University of Pune has goofed up yet again.

After issuing faulty question papers to students twice in the past 10 days, this time the examination department of the university has issued faulty marksheets to second year students of Pune Vidyarthi Griha's College of Engineering and Technology (PVGCoET).

Worse, this is not the first time these students have received faulty marksheets for their second year exam, it is the third.



A second year student of PVGCoET said the confusion might adversely affect them as they will have to take a difficult subject exam without much preparation.

"In the first results sent on February 15, most of the students from our batch of 50 had failed in Engineering Mathematics - III and Printing Digital Technologies (PDT)," said a second year student of Printing Engineering on condition of anonymity.
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"It was strange that all of us had received almost identical marks in the two subjects. We approached the higher authorities and then we were told there was some mix-up."

The students were told they had cleared a subject and that marks were duplicated incorrectly in another column. "They issued us another marksheet on March 8.
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This time most of us had passed in Maths and failed in Printing," said another student.
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"We accepted the results and started preparing for the second attempt for the Printing subject. Suddenly on March 12, a third marksheet came where 30 had failed in Mathematics and passed in PDT."

It came as a great shock for the students as they were to take their PDT exam the next day.

The students and Principal Dr Yogesh Nerkar, met Shivaji Ahire, the university's controller of examinations, who accepted their demand for extra time for preparations.
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"The students had prepared to appear for one subject and at the last moment they learnt they had failed in another subject," said Nerkar. "The exam will now be held on June 15."

Ahire said the goof-up happened because of minor glitches in printing results. "But we have sorted it out now and they are fine with the second attempt exam date," said Ahire.

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