Mumbai University wrongly failed 35,000 students in 2017, reveals RTI enquiry
The Mumbai University reportedly failed at least 36,000 students by mistake in examinations held in 2017. An RTI enquiry has reportedly revealed that as many as 35,000 students—or close to 36 per cent of the over 97,000 who applied for revaluation of over 1.81 lakh answer papers cleared the bar after the rechecking.
According to the report, a total of 97,313 applicants filed for revaluation in 2017. In the previous three years, between 2014 and 2016, approximately 73,000 students—or one in three—were wrongly failed in examinations conducted by the university, raising questions over the quality of evaluation, a TOI report said.
The large number of students filing for reevaluation each year reflects that candidates have begun to lose trust in the university’s assessment process.
When the summer session exams concluded, 49,596 students had doubts over the scores marked in their 85,068 answer books and they subsequently applied for revaluation. Of these, 16,739 cleared their exams.
Again, in the second half of 2017, a total of 47,717 candidates applied to get 76,086 scripts revalued. Of these, 18,254 cleared the exams after their answer books were reassessed. During the first half of 2016, 16,934 of the 44,441 students who applied for revaluation cleared the exam, revealed the RTI query.
Students taking the Mumbai University exam are losing faith in its assessment, RTI activist Vihar Durve told the paper. While 80,000 candidates applied for revaluation in all of 2014, the number of disgruntled candidates had gone up to close to a lakh now, he added.
