Mumbai: BCom results declared at last

Updated on: Wednesday, July 20, 2011

After a long delay, close to one lakh students who took the final-year BCom exams heaved a sigh of relief that their results were finally declared on Tuesday. Of 79,766 students who took the exam, 62.96% of them cleared it. Students will can check their results on university's website. They will get their marksheets on July 26.

This year too like the earlier editions, the final year BCom results were delayed.

Last year the overall success rate was 63.76%. In all, 17,956 students scored a first class, of which 55% are girls; 19,909 of them secured a second class and the remaining 7,985 cleared the exam with a pass class.

"Maximum girls have passed in the first and second class while maximum boys have passed in the pass class. Of the 57 dyslexic students that took the exam, 47 have passed," said Vilas Shinde, controller of exams.

The results of 1,880 students has been held in reserve as there have been errors in putting down seat numbers or there have been mistakes in the filling the OMR sheet. According to the Maharashtra Universities Act results have to be declared within 45 days of the conclusion of the exam. The BCom examsended on April 9 this year, almost three months ago.

The consistent delay in declaring results, said university officials, is because college teachers do not come to assess papers at the 16 central assessment centres. created by the university.

Times of India

Mumbai: BCom results declared at last

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