Revaluation makes some happy, some annoyed
Posted on: 13/May/2013 9:02:09 PM
The revaluation of first year engineering papers has risen the number of students who have passed by almost 12 per cent. There was a large number of failures in the first year courses in private engineering colleges that fall under Anna University. While some people have reason to be happy, many have complained about the way the University has handled the revaluation process.
Says a principal of one of the colleges, ‘Every private college spends at least Rs. 25 lakh on revaluation every semester. The number of students applying for revaluation has increased significantly in the last three years. There is a general belief that nothing but the revaluation result is final … A student spends Rs. 400 on revaluation and another Rs. 700 to obtain
a copy of the answer sheet. More than the cost factor, the psychological trauma the student has to undergo, waiting for the revaluation results, is worrisome.’
‘In most private college students who have failed the exams are asked to, and sometimes, even forced, to fill up revaluation forms… It is very difficult to concentrate on the next semester and most often, such students fail in internal tests and viva. Many find it difficult to take up project work. The results of the revaluation are declared only about four weeks before the next semester exams’, said a student.
