NSUI demands VTU to cancel Critical year back system
Udupi: The National Students Union of India (NSUI) Udupi district staged a protest at the Clock tower on August 28, against the VTU (Visvesvaraya Technological University) demanding cancellation of Critical year back system to Non- CBCS (Choice-Based Credit System) students and Introduction of Supplementary to CBCS students.
Addressing the gathering NSUI Udupi district president Christen Almeida said that many of these students were forced to write over 16 examinations in a span of three months as the university had delayed the re-evaluation results of the odd semester examinations. As a result, many students had to write the supplementary exams of the odd semester as well as the semester exams during the span of three months.
Under the year back system, students cannot go to the next year if they fail in more than four subjects, while in the critical year system, students cannot enter the third year if they do not pass their first year papers or cannot enter final year if they do not pass all their second year papers.
The outcome has affected around two and a half lakh students whose results supposed to be announced in the month of February was delayed by almost six months, and even after the delay, some results were withheld and partial results for all semester were announced only in the beginning of July. But the chaos didn’t stop here, and VTU suddenly issued the timetable and expected students to write the exams without announcing the revaluation results.
There are also reports and proof which show that VTU did not evaluate the answer scripts in the revaluation and issued zero for some students who were expecting more than 80 marks. Still, many students are not able to check their results and most of the photocopies applied by the students were not sent to their emails. All these issues are literally torturing the students, and we are on the verge of giving up hope.
The crash course which was introduced to the final year, as well as the second-year students to save them from the year back scheme six months back actually caused more trouble than any good.
He demanded to cancel the year back system for both crash course students as well as regular students of 2010 scheme for the academic year 2017. The VTU should permit students who failed in critical subjects to attend classes. He also demanded to provide supplementary exams for CBCS students of 2017 batch.
Arthur Charles, Nikhil Devadiga, Devdas Nayak, Sachin, Marsh, Shrirag, Shailesh, Mohammed Swahil and others were present.