No complains: Question paper just like last year's

PANAJI: The around 150 third-year or semester V civil engineering students who answered the 100-mark 'design of concrete structures' exam paper on Wednesday ended up answering a question paper almost ditto to the one sent by the Goa University last year.
Copies of the 2013 and 2014 question papers, which are in TOI’s possession, show that the two are nearly the same, except for one question.
"The committee formed for a subject by Goa University sets three question papers. These are set by three different paper-setters. And all of these papers are in separate sealed envelopes when they are chosen and when they are sent for printing. The contents of the paper are only known when the selected envelope is opened by the supervisors at the place of the examination. It appears that one of the varsity paper-setters have just lazily copied and pasted last year’s paper rather than setting a new one and the same happened to be chosen for printing," a teacher told TOI.
The civil engineering stream is offered by Don Bosco College of Engineering, Fatorda, and Goa Engineering College, Farmagudi. Teachers at the institutes are worried that this incident may encourage students to look out for question papers set for exams in April/May 2013 in the hope that the same would appear again.
Calling Wednesday’s episode a serious negligence, teachers at the institutes said the students who reappear to clear their backlog will be at an unfair advantage in such cases. "Students do not seem to be raising the issue as they are benefitting from it," a teacher said.
Goa University registrar Vijayendra Kamat, when contacted, said, "Throughout the process, from choosing the question paper to sending it for printing, the question papers are in sealed envelopes which are not opened anywhere in between. We take all necessary precautions so that such incidents do not occur. But if any such incident has occurred where the examination paper has been repeated this year—it has not been brought to my notice till 6.30pm as on Wednesday—I will investigate the matter at the earliest."