Hi all.
I am a student of a university, called as PTU, which is very fond of opening new branches (colleges, distance education centers etc) in every corner they can find. I don't know if they are in a race to own a 'Guinness World Record' of being a university having maximum branches all over the India. But in their fondness/race, they are forgetting that they may be playing with the future of so many students who're enrolled in their colleges. They have many branches and almost all of them lack enough faculty (here I'm talking about quantity not the quality which is in worse situation..!) to assist them in their academic dealings. For the same reason, the PTU students are getting the similar question paper from past 10-12 years, the course has not been revised ever since and the answer sheets are checked in a very shameful way.
The marks obtained depends on various factors like:- how many sheets filled for the answer, no matter what you've written, the mood of the invigilator at that time, the taste and the fragrance of the tea the invigilator is having at the time of checking the answers and many more on similar lines.
Let me share with you one recent incident supporting all the points I've shared above.
We use to have one subject called 'Design and Analysis of Algorithm' (DAA) in the 5th semester. Some how we people managed to clear that subject but unfortunately our juniors could not. In their class only 3 out of 115 passed the exam and rest all were failed.
When the result was declared on the net, we were sure of some technical or clerical problem while adding the numbers to the list. But in a short while, it was made clear by the university authority that there was no such problem. Our mouths were left opened. I mean the students who are scoring above 85% in other subjects, how can they fail in DAA...!!!
OK fine, the next day the Head of the Department (HOD) of our Computer Sci. Engg. department talked about this matter with the concerned PTU members but he didn't get any satisfactory response. Meanwhile the students also founded the teacher who marked their answer sheets and cursed him a lot (what else can they do at that time).
We're very fortunate that our HOD sir is very committed and concerned for our department. He told PTU that he doubted the marking of DAA answer sheets and asked them to organize a re-checking procedure of few random papers to clarify the scene.
Thank God PTU agreed to it and a great variation was found in the results. Everyone thought that now all the papers will be re-checked and they would be getting a fair result.
But "there are many a slips between the cup and the lip". We don't know what happened in between, they started delaying the process intentionally. The students suspect this delay and they went to the university office to have a face-to-face interaction with the concerned person. However they were just a few students and the concerned person was senior to them. He again made the students leave without any satisfactory answer.
After so many official letters from our HOD, so many telephone calls, emails, text messages, finally PTU gave March 20th, 2011 as proposed date for the announcement of the rectified result. And just look at today's date- its March 27th,2011. Still no result is out. Now the situation is this that they are not responding to any of our letters calls, mails or messages. The students are now not able to meet PTU officials because of one or the other lame excuses.
I don't know what will be the end of this story. But one thing for sure I know is that the future of all the students is at stake and they are cursing PTU very badly. Now the next semester, they'll be trying in some good companies for their 6-month training. But with such a result with them, they can't even apply.
If some PTU official is reading this post, please try to understand the situation of the students and look into this matter with serious concerns. Please don't play with our results like this.
Regards
A PTU Student
I am a student of a university, called as PTU, which is very fond of opening new branches (colleges, distance education centers etc) in every corner they can find. I don't know if they are in a race to own a 'Guinness World Record' of being a university having maximum branches all over the India. But in their fondness/race, they are forgetting that they may be playing with the future of so many students who're enrolled in their colleges. They have many branches and almost all of them lack enough faculty (here I'm talking about quantity not the quality which is in worse situation..!) to assist them in their academic dealings. For the same reason, the PTU students are getting the similar question paper from past 10-12 years, the course has not been revised ever since and the answer sheets are checked in a very shameful way.
The marks obtained depends on various factors like:- how many sheets filled for the answer, no matter what you've written, the mood of the invigilator at that time, the taste and the fragrance of the tea the invigilator is having at the time of checking the answers and many more on similar lines.
Let me share with you one recent incident supporting all the points I've shared above.
We use to have one subject called 'Design and Analysis of Algorithm' (DAA) in the 5th semester. Some how we people managed to clear that subject but unfortunately our juniors could not. In their class only 3 out of 115 passed the exam and rest all were failed.
When the result was declared on the net, we were sure of some technical or clerical problem while adding the numbers to the list. But in a short while, it was made clear by the university authority that there was no such problem. Our mouths were left opened. I mean the students who are scoring above 85% in other subjects, how can they fail in DAA...!!!
OK fine, the next day the Head of the Department (HOD) of our Computer Sci. Engg. department talked about this matter with the concerned PTU members but he didn't get any satisfactory response. Meanwhile the students also founded the teacher who marked their answer sheets and cursed him a lot (what else can they do at that time).
We're very fortunate that our HOD sir is very committed and concerned for our department. He told PTU that he doubted the marking of DAA answer sheets and asked them to organize a re-checking procedure of few random papers to clarify the scene.
Thank God PTU agreed to it and a great variation was found in the results. Everyone thought that now all the papers will be re-checked and they would be getting a fair result.
But "there are many a slips between the cup and the lip". We don't know what happened in between, they started delaying the process intentionally. The students suspect this delay and they went to the university office to have a face-to-face interaction with the concerned person. However they were just a few students and the concerned person was senior to them. He again made the students leave without any satisfactory answer.
After so many official letters from our HOD, so many telephone calls, emails, text messages, finally PTU gave March 20th, 2011 as proposed date for the announcement of the rectified result. And just look at today's date- its March 27th,2011. Still no result is out. Now the situation is this that they are not responding to any of our letters calls, mails or messages. The students are now not able to meet PTU officials because of one or the other lame excuses.
I don't know what will be the end of this story. But one thing for sure I know is that the future of all the students is at stake and they are cursing PTU very badly. Now the next semester, they'll be trying in some good companies for their 6-month training. But with such a result with them, they can't even apply.
If some PTU official is reading this post, please try to understand the situation of the students and look into this matter with serious concerns. Please don't play with our results like this.
Regards
A PTU Student
