Result Evaluation

Created on Feb 2005 to express my views to The Department of Examinaations, Anna University.
I would like to share the present situation prevailing in our educational system and the effects forced on the students.
We are the first batch of students to be taken up by Anna University. Everybody (the public) feel that being controlled by the top university we are being moulded into grads equal in academic intelligence to that of the AU grads. I feel sorry to say that the truth is a big NO indeed! From the start, we have been forced with a lot of new systems, rules and regulations. As our syllabi failed to match the AU, a bridge course was conducted to lift us up. But, are the self-financing colleges serious about providing standard education? We had been always forced to accept things as they come and we accepted the bridge course, unavailability of staff community, no prescribed text books and so on…

Hope the State must be aware as to when the results have been published. The students feel that the papers are not being corrected with devotion. Everybody seems to earn money from that and is least bothered about the way they evaluate the papers. I should also make an honest comment that few of us who don’t deserve a pass mark do get good results and are delighted that luck favored us! Do the staff members make not an injustice to the student community? The students do feel that they would clear their papers if luck favors them and not that their efforts would fetch them their deserved marks!! We should really accept that this is the pitiable state of our educational system!

One more accusation on we students is that, even after gravitating the top class industry people to the University campus and allowing merit students to attend the tests conducted, the number of placed candidates is very small. The list also includes the communicational lag among the professionals. Are we being taught from our school days that developing our personality is but an important trait? No, we realize that only after we face an interview personally. I don’t mean to say that we don’t have any mistakes on our part but laying the sole responsibility on our shoulders is too ridiculous!!!

I would also like to add few more facts regarding answer paper evaluation. The marks published as result shows 6 of 80 and after applying for revaluation the mark becomes 36 of 80! Isn’t it awesome? If marks that are carelessly left counts less than 5 or 6 it can be taken as a mistake. But leaving out 30 marks during evaluation is a blunder! Are the evaluators least bothered about the future of we professionals? If this is going to happen who is going to attend the exams with dedication? The evaluation pattern is frustrating, discouraging, misleading and totally is unplanned!!!!

We do regret to think that false marks are left just to earn the additional money for revaluation!!!!
The noticeable, but pitiable fact is that we have to pay our exam fees, including the amount to reappear for arrear subjects, before our revaluation results appear! Our college doesn’t refund the money we pay if our revaluation fetches us a pass mark in the subjects.
If the university feels hectic to correct such a huge number of answer papers, they may very well change their validating pattern and please do leave our future unharmed. At this point of industrial expectations, the percentage gained by the individual matters the most. The first impression is given just by the percentage we score. Are the people responsible for raising professionals appreciated by this kind of act? We do wish that this never happens to anyone in the future and proper measures are taken to evaluate students accurately and efficiently, thereby taking into consideration the career and future of the students.