No hall tickets on eve of exams

Updated on: Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Just 24 hours before the final year arts, management and media studies examinations are to commence, several students, instead of spending their time studying, have been forced to queue up in their colleges to procure their hall tickets.

“We had been waiting for the hall tickets for days but colleges are distributing them now,” said one such harrowed student. “I don’t know why we are being made to run around less than a day to go for our exams. They could have been distributed it earlier,” said a final-year management student.

“Our college also has a training session on the new format for the new optical mark reader, which has been introduced from this year. Instead of last minute revisions, here we are trying to understand the new exam system.”

College heads, in turn, blamed university officials for the issue. “Once the hall tickets were sent, they had to be signed and students had to be called. We had to call them to college on Tuesday morning. Why does the university leave everything for the last minute?” asked a principal of a suburban college.

The university realised the delay could affect students and made some alternate arrangements. “To make it easier for students we have put up the seat numbers and centres on the university website last night itself. If a student for some reason does not have his hall card, we have asked supervisors to admit them based on their college ID cards,” said Vilas Shinde, university’s controller of examinations.

No hall tickets on eve of exams

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