Mumbai University Results: 85% Students Fail to Clear Exams

Around 85 percent of the students were not able to clear the examinations at the Mumbai University (MU). According to a letter signed by 12,000 students submitted to the university by teachers’ union explaining the issues, the changes made in the syllabus and examination pattern led to this mass failure.

The letter states that the students were not informed about that the changes in the syllabus and exam pattern. Also, the new textbooks were not provided to the students until the middle of the semester. This resulted in mass failure among students of first-year, for all streams, specifically the commerce stream students.

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Last year, University of Mumbai initiated to revise the curriculum of all the courses. The first year students went through the following changes which were made effective for the all undergraduate programs:

• The university has launched a choice-based credit system (CBCS) enabling the students to opt for subjects from a different department other than their own core course.
• It had also decided to exclude internal examinations weightage for B.Com, B.A. and B.Sc courses.
• To conduct examinations with a uniform question paper even at the college-level.

However, many academicians didn’t like how the syllabus revising exercise was conducted. In an ideal case, the exercise should have begun few months before the commencement of the new session. However, the new syllabus was introduced after classes were started.

The students, through their teachers, complained that instead of changing the syllabus mid-term, the whole structure of the new CBCS curriculum for all three years should have been informed earlier. Changes related to including core and elective subjects. This would have given the students more clarity while making a choice. They criticised Mumbai University’s exam errors. The students also informed that they received their hall tickets only a day before the examination, out of which many had multiple errors.

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The letter also revealed that delays in announcing results have led to losing out on good employment opportunities for the students. Also, they were not able to appear for competitive exams or apply to other universities. Further, the re-evaluation of answer sheets has been postponed beyond the next repeat examination date.