Winter exam mess: NU gets 350 marksheet complaints

Nagpur: The Nagpur University has admitted to receiving around 300 to 350 complaints regarding errors in the marksheets issued during the Winter examination. Apart from students, nearly 100 affiliated colleges also approached the university over discrepancies in the results and marksheets. VC Manali Kshirsagar and deputy registrar Motiram Tadas shared the information during a press conference regarding the winter examination. Tadas holds the charge of the exam section.The complaints mainly pertained to errors in marks entries and other result-related issues. The university has initiated process of rectifying mistakes amid growing criticism over examination and result glitches witnessed during the Winter 2025 exam. Redressal of many of the complaints in marksheets is still underway though summer examinations have started. Hence, many students are worried about the possibility of the need to appear in backlog exams or if they will clear the winter exams.The blunders in marksheets have left many students failed or with absent remarks in the results. Some students also got other faculty subjects mentioned in their marksheets. For example, BSc marksheets have audit in the subjects column though it is not part of the course.The university published 985 results as of Wednesday evening. Of these, around 75%, or 744 results, missed the deadline and were announced after 45 days of the last paper. The university conducted a total of 1,261 winter exams, but no student appeared in 276 exams.Top officials claimed the number of complaints is negligible as compared to the volume of students — 3.17 lakh. However, exam officials said the over 300 complaints were from different courses. This means the number of affected students is higher as similar issues were faced by students of each course. Senate member Manmohan Bajpai, in his letter to VC, had said the thousands of students received faulty marksheets.