NU marksheet blunders send thousands in tizzy

Nagpur: The Nagpur University (NU) took nearly four months to process and announce its winter exam results, missing the 45-day deadline, but glaring errors in the marksheets issued are pointing at a goofed-up process. Thousands of students from different major courses received a big shock with technical errors plagued with their marksheets.Students said mark sheets are showing wrong subjects, absent remarks, or incomplete entries, resulting in them being declared fail. NU exam section has put hundreds of results on ‘withheld' after being flooded with complaints of being ‘failed' despite scoring good or other issues in marksheets.The goof-ups in winter exam results have come when the NU exam department is busy conducting four-month-long summer exams. The department was expecting to focus on smooth conduct of summer exams, which are stretching till mid-July due to a delayed start. With students rushing to correct flaws in the winter exam results, the exam department's work of issuing hall tickets for summer exams, acceptance of late forms, and other works are set to be disrupted. Deputy registrar Motiram Tadas told TOI that marksheets with errors are being revised. "Over 3,800 BSc first semester results were held back. Now, the wrong marksheet numbers stand at 400. These results will remain withheld until the college provides internal assessment as prescribed in the NEP format. Another 1,100 results of BSc sixth semester are withheld for corrections. In BA exams, around 20,000 mark sheets had faulty entries, which are being corrected," Tadas said.Tadas blamed the colleges for making incorrect entries of internal marks, which he claimed has resulted in chaos. "The colleges were told to send marks in 80-20 or 40-10 (theory-internal) combinations. In engineering courses, marks and grades have to be provided. Many colleges haven't followed the format. Some colleges expressed their inability and adamantly refused to comply with the format. Hence, we were forced to withhold the results," Tadas said.He added that the majority of marksheets with errors are of students from first-year and second-year. "These students need not worry. They would be able to appear in summer exams without any issues," Tadas said.Senate member Manmohan Bajpai has written to the vice-chancellor, Manali Kshirsagar, highlighting the issue. "Thousands of students are suffering because of repeated mistakes in marksheets and examination results. The university must resolve these issues on a war footing to ensure that students do not face academic, financial or career losses," he said.