Hall ticket, exam centre and roll number goof-ups mess up Mumbai University examinations again

Hall ticket, exam centre and roll number goof-ups mess up Mumbai University examinations again

FP Staff October 7, 2015, 12:53:24 IST

Chaos reigned as the B.Com examinations began at Mumbai University, even as the university jumped from the 68th to the 58th rank this year among a list of the top 100 universities of the BRICS countries

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Hall ticket, exam centre and roll number goof-ups mess up Mumbai University examinations again

Exam centres being changed half an hour before the exam, teachers not being able to download question papers and hall tickets not reaching students till the last minute. Chaos reigned once again as the BCom examinations began at Mumbai University, according to news reports. This comes even as the university jumped from the 68th to the 58th rank this year among a list of the top 100 universities of the BRICS countries, according to a DNA report .

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The Times of India reported that there were delays and last-minute changes at the examination centres, leading to confusion for students. The report quotes the principal of a prominent college affiliated with Mumbai University as saying that they could not download the question paper and had to borrow a question paper from a neighbouring college, and make photocopies. A teacher from another college said that it received a password for the question just five minutes before the exam, leading to a 15-minute delay in starting the exam.

Mumbai Mirror quoted a student saying that he went to the centre mentioned on his hall ticket, only to find that his roll number was not on the list and had to then rush to his college to take the exams.

According to the Mumbai Mirror report, university officials laid the blame for this mess on an IT firm, Maharashtra Knowledge Corporation Limited (MKCL), that had laid down the varsity’s digitisation framework. A number of former senate members have reportedly written to the vice-chancellor demanding that the contract with the IT firm should be scrapped.

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Similar problems of last-minute changes in exam centres and delays with question papers were seen during BSc exams in 2013. A DNA report had said that on that occasion as well, insiders had blamed the MKCL for the goof-ups.

Last year, a question for the BCom examination from the university was leaked on WhatsApp, after which officials had to contact the 223 exam centres and dispatch a different question paper, as reported by Mid-Day .

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