JNTUH students cry foul over evaluations

Hyderabad: Engineering students of schools affiliated to Jawharlal Nehru Technological College-Hyderabad have sought changes within the examination analysis system, claiming that currently professors spend hardly a couple of minutes to correct each paper.
Several complaints have been registered in the past on lapses within the evaluation process. Not too long ago, members of the JNTUH Students' Joint Action Committee (JNTUH-SJAC) shot off a letter to varsity authorities highlighting the plight of hundreds of students.
"There are not any specific standards set for paper evaluation. And even if there are, they aren't neutral. We're evaluated based mostly on hand writing and not on the content material of the answer sheet," alleged Mohammad Sumair, a student who has began a web-based petition on this issue.
JNTUH receives almost 15 lakh answer sheets (32 pages every) yearly, for which it calls in practically 1,a hundred evaluators from numerous colleges. As per the rules, evaluators are given one hundred twenty answer sheets each day, with eight hours to finish corrections. Because of this evaluators get 4 minutes on every paper, which is not even close to being enough.
"Even high-scoring students have backlogs in a number of papers as professors hurriedly correct reply sheets. They hardly spend over a minute on every paper, impacting our total results," mentioned Vinay Kumar, a student.
Students additionally complained that the university prices more cash for re-evaluating papers. While varsities such as Osmania College cost Rs 300 per subject for re-analysis, JNTUH fees Rs 1,000 for every subject.
"In lots of cases, students have got much better marks after re-evaluation. There are students who failed throughout regular corrections however passed with a margin of 20-30 marks after re-evaluation," stated R Sai Kiran, member of JNTUH SJAC. He demanded that the college share with the students a soft copy of the evaluated booklet.
Meanwhile, admitting that several complaints had been acquired relating to the evaluation process, JNTUH Convocation officials mentioned a coverage change was required earlier than evaluated reply sheets may very well be shared with students. "Throughout revaluation, chances are that the students get higher scores because the professor in query gets more time for each paper. To have accuracy in evaluation, we've got centralised the entire system and have appointed chief examiners for every subject," stated Anjaneya Prasad, director of analysis at JNTUH.