TURA: The results of the Bachelor of Education (B.Ed) Examinations 2013 which were declared on March 21 has stirred a hornet’s nest with several dozen students from Tura questioning the manner in which marks were allotted even as one reputed institution has shot off a letter to NEHU authorities seeking the appointment of a neutral committee to study the results.
Don Bosco College of Teachers’ Education in Tura, whose students bagged six top positions in the 2013 results and a year earlier had swept all top ten positions found, to their dismay, that none of their students had found a berth in this year’s results.
The Principal of the College, Alexander Kerketta, has shot off a letter to the Controller of Examinations, NEHU, raising several pointers and questioning the manner in which the marks were allotted.
As many as 103 out of 105 students from Don Bosco CTE, Tura, had successfully cleared the examination securing eleven distinctions. A total of 68 students were placed in first division, by far the largest from any institution in the State.
Despite the institute having the largest number of first division holders and a pass percentage of 97.14 % none of the students made it to the top ten positions of the State.
Interestingly, prior to the final examinations, twenty-one students of the institute had been honoured for excelling in their selection examinations. “All of us were given extremely low marks in Educational Psychology and Statistics and Development of Educational System in India. These are two papers where we had done exceptionally well all through the year and had even been acknowledged by our institute during our internals. So, we were expecting very high marks,” revealed some of the aggrieved students of Tura who have now moved NEHU for a re-evaluation of the answer sheets at a cost of Rs.500 for each subject.
Some of the students were rated low in Paper II – Educational Psychology and Statistics and in Paper V & VI – Geography.
In the meantime, the head of Don Bosco CTE, Tura, has in his letter to NEHU pointed out that all the top positions for this year had gone to students from a particular college which was the only institute to offer Computers as an optional paper in B.Ed.
“If you look at the results all top positions went to these students and all of them secured distinction in Computers. If a handful of students can walk away with top university ranks because of an additional paper offered only by one college then where is the justice?” questioned Kerketta in his letter to NEHU.
He also highlighted the absence of a chief examiner for the B.Ed examinations which he stated happens to be very important because in any case of discrepancy in marking it can be moderated by the Chief Examiner.
He questioned the fake numbering of answer scripts done by the university terming it a farce because many a times it fails to tear away the portion where the numbers are written thereby allowing evaluators to identify the scripts.
“It happened in some of the scripts this year,” pointed out Kerketta.