IP varsity faces flak for higher pass percentage than others

Updated on: Monday, June 28, 2010

Compared to other universities, Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University requires a high percentage of 50 percent for its students to clear the semester based examinations for technical courses, a Right To Information (RTI) application filed by RTI activist Tushar Kanti Pal has revealed.

The RTI had been filed last year by Pal. He had found on the university's website that many student at the varsity who were enrolled in semester-based courses had not cleared there semester examinations.

According to Pal, he had also filed RTI applications for other universities such as Jamia Millia Islamia, which has a passing criterion of 35 percent for each examination. Similarly, the pass percentage for Delhi University's Faculty of Technology and Delhi Technological University is 40 percent.

Even for the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs), said Pal, the passing criterion is a D grade, which roughly comes up to 40 percent.

Vice Chancellor of IP University, Dr. D.K. Bandyopadhyay said in his defense that being an individual university and institute, they could formulate their own rules.

Bandyopadhyay added that the internal evaluation for semester based courses was worth 40 marks, and the examinations were of 60 marks. "Most students attain around 32-35 marks and need around 20 more marks to clear their examination, which is not very much," he said, stating that the varsity had its brand reputation to uphold.

The students at the university, too, are not very pleased with the current system of clearing students in examinations. "It is abnormal for a university to have such a high pass percentage. Students end up getting several backs in their result. For each examination that they have to repeat, they are charged Rs. 300, and having several backs means paying quite a lot," said a student.

IP varsity faces flak for higher pass percentage than others

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