A day after mid-day reported on the new “strict” assessment policy introduced by Narsee Monjee Institute of Management Studies (NMIMS) which allegedly led to several students failing their semester exams, the vice-chancellor has clarified that these students had availed of two attempts to clear the examination and also two revaluations. According to the management, the students were also informed about NMIMS having no ATKT policy at the beginning of the year.

Many of the affected students and their parents had complained to the governor and chief minister of Maharashtra about the new assessment policy of NMIMS’s Anil Surendra Modi School of Commerce, which requires students to repeat a year if they fail an exam, instead of being allowed to keep terms and reappear for the subject in the following academic year. They had also protested outside the NMIMS Mumbai campus on May 2, following which they met the vice-chancellor and later, complained to the University Grants Commission (UGC) about the issue.