Team Herald
PANJIM: Final year mechanical engineering students of various colleges of Goa have claimed that there were flaws in the Reliability Based Design (RBD) exam question paper of the May-June semester exams, for which corrections to those particular questions were done after the students had finished attempting the questions. Students from all four engineering colleges claim that no extra time was given to them to resolve the questions.
Mechanical engineering students said, “The questions from module 1 and 4 were very tough and almost all questions were application based beyond our scope of solving. There were mistakes in the paper for which corrections were done after students had already finished attempting the questions.”
One correction was done at 3.15 pm for a 5 marks problem (Q. 3 B) and the second at 4.15 pm for 16 marks (Q. 8 A) and 8 mark problems (Q. 7 C).
They added, “There were more mistakes in the paper which were not rectified. So the issue is the 16 marks which constitute almost the full module, and if those marks go then many students will fail. Corrections are not expected to be made so late during the exam, that too for such a major problem.”
Students said that any delay in corrections leads to shortage of time for them to finish the paper and no extra time was provided.
Students have written to Goa University (GU) requesting that full marks be allotted for the questions where there were delays in corrections.
“We are in the 8th semester and these are our final exams and our percentage and careers depend on these,” the students said.
