Students complain of mismanagement, poor judgement in setting paper
Students complain of mismanagement, poor judgement in setting paper
The maiden national-level entrance examination for the country's first-of-its-kind four-year integrated MTech-PhD course launched from this year by the University of Pune (UoP) ran into problems on the very first day. On July 31, the date of the entrance tests, students were seen complaining about the arrangements as well as the mismanagement of the entrance examinations.
Starting trouble: Students cmplained they had to start the exam late
because of poor seating arrangements. File pic
The new course is the pet project of Vice-Chancellor R K Shevgaonkar, who announced it last year. The course is positioned as a unique industry-academia partnership where there will be industry-specific research and generation of intellectual property which will be jointly owned by the UoP. The course is open to fresh graduates from engineering and basic sciences and will lead to a dual degree as it is both research- and industry-oriented.
Seating trouble
On the day of entrance tests, students said they had to start the exams late because of mismanagement. "Earlier they had declared a particular examination centre schedule. However, after reaching the classrooms, we realised that seating arrangements had been changed at the last minute and another student was seated (in our place). By the time the seating was sorted out, we had lost 10-15 minutes," said a student.
Confusing paper
Another student said that despite the fact that graduates from engineering and those who had done their BSc, which are two different faculties, were writing exams, there was just one question paper.
"It was expected that they at least set the question paper according to the faculties we belong to so that they can test our knowledge. This question paper was confusing," said a student. Interviews of candidates selected in the written test took place yesterday.
The Other Side
A S Patalkar, dean of technology department and head of the course, was not available for comment despite repeated attempts. Vasudev Gade, director of the Board of College and University Development (BCUD), denied any confusion had occurred. "Some students always complain. The exams went smoothly and there was no error in paper-setting. The interviews are going on as per schedule," he said.
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