Delhi University’s students who had no recourse to deal with allegedly “unfair marking” can rest assured this Diwali as the university is revoking its revaluation system. All the four-year undergraduate students who had failed and were left to fend for themselves when the university reverted to the three-year programme this July, also have reason to cheer with the university announcing that it is willing to carry out fresh admissions for them.
These developments were clarified by the university's Joint Registrar (Academics) Ram Dutt on Monday.
“The revaluation of answer sheets because of the introduction of checking of answer sheets... by multiple examiners will be reverted and the answer sheets will be examined by a single examiner,” said a notification issued by the university.
The university had withdrawn the option of revaluation when it introduced the semester system about three years ago.
“The students who failed in the first year and could not take admissions due to various reasons will be allowed to be re-admitted into the first year. The attendance of such students will be counted from the date of their admission,” said the notification on the readmission of the failed students. An undertaking will also have to be supplied by the affected students that they will not make a claim for any loss of teaching hours and also that they will make up for the courses that have already taken place so far, by themselves.
Internal assessment, which was a key factor in the FYUP also, has weightage in the three-year course. And this will be conducted by whichever college reinstates the student. Also, the failed students who were admitted by mistake to the second year will be readmitted to the first year and the fees that were already collected from them will be adjusted.
The announcement on Monday also made it clear that these steps were being taken only because the university had received a lot of representations from affected students as well as the students’ union.
“The option of revaluation had been changed into ‘re-checking’, which was merely re-totalling of marks. Due to this, thousands of students had been suffering for no fault of theirs. The university had been arguing that the answer sheets in the semester system were being evaluated by three teachers but the reality was that the three teachers usually divided portions of the question paper among themselves and no section of the paper was evaluated twice,” said Saket Bahuguna, the State secretary of the Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad which controls the Delhi University Students’ Union.
