JNTUH students cry foul over evaluations

Hyderabad: Engineering students of schools affiliated to Jawharlal Nehru Technological College-Hyderabad have sought adjustments within the exam analysis system, claiming that at the moment professors spend hardly a few minutes to right each paper.
A number of complaints have been registered prior to now on lapses in the evaluation process. Not too long ago, members of the JNTUH Students' Joint Motion Committee (JNTUH-SJAC) shot off a letter to varsity authorities highlighting the plight of 1000's of students.
"There aren't any specific standards set for paper evaluation. And even if there are, they aren't neutral. We are evaluated based readily available writing and never on the content of the answer sheet," alleged Mohammad Sumair, a student who has started a web-based petition on this issue.
JNTUH receives practically 15 lakh reply sheets (32 pages each) yearly, for which it calls in nearly 1,100 evaluators from various colleges. As per the foundations, evaluators are given one hundred twenty reply sheets each day, with eight hours to complete corrections. Which means that evaluators get 4 minutes on each paper, which isn't even near being enough.
"Even high-scoring students have backlogs in a couple of papers as professors hurriedly appropriate answer sheets. They hardly spend over a minute on each paper, impacting our total results," mentioned Vinay Kumar, a student.
Students also complained that the college expenses more cash for re-evaluating papers. Whereas varsities reminiscent of Osmania University cost Rs 300 per subject for re-evaluation, JNTUH Convocation expenses Rs 1,000 for every subject.
"In many cases, students have gotten much better marks after re-evaluation. There are students who failed during regular corrections however passed with a margin of 20-30 marks after re-analysis," 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 a number of complaints had been received concerning the analysis process, JNTUH officers stated a coverage change was required before evaluated answer sheets could possibly 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, now we have centralised all the system and have appointed chief examiners for each topic," said Anjaneya Prasad, director of evaluation at JNTUH.