Times
of India: Ahmedabad: Saturday, 25 July 2015.
The role of
Gujarat Technological University (GTU), with over 500 colleges under its ambit,
is very crucial for a student perusing a career in professional courses like
MBA, MCA, engineering or others. But over the years the assessment standard of
GTU has fallen drastically mainly because of inexperienced and substandard
evaluators who check the answer sheets of students.
According to
data collected under Right to Information (RTI) Act, results of over 36%
students had to be changed after re-assessment or re-checking last year. This
is very alarming when compared to results of SSC and HSC where only 3-4%
results were altered after re-assessment.
Sources
within the GTU said that in the last 2-3 years they have received number of
complaints claiming poor quality of exam paper evaluation. This has led to many
fold increase in re-checking and re-assessment.
Janak
Khandwala, president of Self Finance Management Institute Association said the
special scheme of the GTU for exam paper evaluators was responsible for
discrepancies in results. "Under the GTU scheme the evaluator gets Rs 15
per answer sheet if completed within 15 days. Beyond that evaluators will get
Rs 10 per answer sheet. So to earn more money teachers check papers in a
hurry," Khandwala said.
Officials of
the GTU on condition of anonymity also admitted that the evaluators were many a
times not well qualified to check papers. "In GTU there is system of
e-assessment for post graduate courses, wherein evaluators are sent scanned
copies of the answer sheets by mail. However, most of these evaluators are from
self-finance colleges which results in poor quality of assessment," he
added.
GTU exam
secretary Jitendra Lilani said that more students from PG course were coming
for re-assessment and re-checking. On inability to take action against
evaluators, Lilani said, "Where there is change in marks after
re-assessment, we have to take opinion of other evaluators on the marks given.
Also, we cannot take punitive actions against evaluator because there is
Supreme Court guideline prohibiting action against evaluators.ClassStudents
appearedRechecking/Assessment done Change in result
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1010 lakh12,000400
·
12 (sci)1.25 lakh1,400175
·
12 (gen) 5.25 lakh1,800250
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