VTU to Now Offer ‘Exit Scheme’ to Students with Backlogs

The Visveswaraya Technological University, also known as VTU has decided to revise the ‘Year Back’ and ‘Critical Year’ concepts that were introduced in 2010 with an objective to help engineering students in obtaining their degrees. The Executive Committee of the varsity took the decision on September 12, 2017, after a massive protest by the students in the first week of September.

According to the earlier rules of VTU, students were denied admission to the fifth semester if they had failed in the first and second semester. The revised rules will come into effect from the academic session 2017-18.

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While providing and defining the revised rules, Registrar of VTU revealed that the students will be granted a go ahead into the final year even if they fail all the papers in the second year. However, these students will be allowed to appear for the final semester exams only after they clear backlogs, he added.

The Executive Committee has also revised the existing internal and theory marks ratio from 20:80 to 40:60. The rules will benefit over 20,000 students of VTU and its affiliated colleges.

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On September 1, 2017, thousands of VTU students protested against the mismanaged examination system while claiming that they were forced to pay the exam fee for the next semester even before the declaration of re-evaluation results. VTU had declared the re-evaluation results at midnight, just a few hours before the next semester exams, which according to the students is dissatisfactory. A statewide bandh was also organised against the examination rules of VTU where the students demanded the varsity to scrap the ‘Critical Year’ and ‘Year Back’ provisions.