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MAPUSA: The law college students have appealed to Chief Minister Pramod Sawant to restore the reevaluation system that has been “arbitrarily” abolished by Goa University, recently.
Goa University amended examination rules whereby it abolished the reevaluation system for three-year LLB degree programme.
According to the amendment, “All semester exams shall be evaluated by two examiners and the average score of the two shall be final score of the candidate. There shall be no re-evaluation.”
In a memorandum submitted to the chief minister last week, the students said that the abolition of the reevaluation system by Goa University is “arbitrarily” and it would cause great injustice to the students.
In their memorandum, the student said they are not in favour of such amendment.
“The amendment is totally detrimental, illogical, harsh and thus obstructing the students from protecting their interests, rights and privileges and thereby forcing them to succumb to the so called unethical practices of the Evaluation Department of the University,” memorandum reads as.
After hearing the grievances of the students, the chief minister reportedly assured the delegation to look into the matter. Sawant hold the education portfolio.
The memorandum, signed by 150 law students, states that there have been several instances in the past wherein deserving students, who were initially declared as failed by the University and those who had obtained less marks not only passed, but excelled in the respective subject only after the revaluation was asked for.
“Therefore re-evaluation is an essential element in the University which cannot be done away with, especially for LLB courses and the revaluation system was in itself, an in-built transparency in the system, in line with the principles of natural justice,” the memorandum reads as.
The student community is at the University as if failed to take them into confidence before abolishing the system.
“Also, there remains no remedy left, after the stage of personal verification of the answer sheet by the student, in the event of the student discovering that certain questions were not evaluated, a possibility very much likely, based on the past experience of the students of this course,” the memorandum reads as.
Hence, the students have appealed to the Chief Minister to impress upon Goa University to restore revaluation system forthwith.
The memorandum states that “under the new pattern wherein the average marks awarded by two evaluators would be considered as the final score of the student,” is totally discriminatory and outrageous and should rather be higher of the two evaluations as it was prior to the amendment, as the student should be given the benefit of doubt.
