I am a final year engineering student, [forturnately] eligible for the placement season of 2016-2017.
I belong to Visvesvaraya Technical University, aka VTU, and today I am going to write about some weird patterns I figured out in the reevaluation scheme of VTU.
Reevaluation means you can get your final examination copies re-checked after giving Rs.400/- PER SUBJECT.
Normally, reevaluation is for people who think there has been some [genuine] mistake in their copy checking. But the trend uncovered by my statistics reveal a completely different story.
Here, I'll be talking of a random college (let us say 'X'), whose results I took as sample. [Note: If you run the given script, it generates the statistics for ALL the colleges.]
- Out of 17 students who applied for reval in Sub X, 10 got their marks increased. How can the evaluators make so many mistakes? That is a freaking 59% students getting their marks increased. And this data is only for 130 students. There are approximately 450000 students in the university. Something definitely dosen't seem quite right here.
- On an average, atleast 40% students [PER SUBJECT] got their marks increased after reevaluation. Was every third copy wrongly evaluated?
- The highest marks increase was in this subject Y, where a student got as much as 29 marks increased. HOW IS THIS POSSIBLE? Let us assume this was his bad luck and the evaluator made a geniune mistake. But the next point will blow your socks off.
- The AVERAGE increase of marks of students in this very same subject Y is a whooping 12 marks. I dont think all the evalators made checking mistakes AT THE SAME TIME (or did they?) How can someone's marks increase by so much after paying money? That is statistically impossible.
- Averaging the data for these 130 students, it turns out that if you put two of your subjects for reevaluation (for Rs.800/-), then it is almost guranteed that you will get an increase of 9 marks. 9 marks make up a ONE FULL PERCENT of your undergraduate result.
Fig: Statistics of 130 CSE students of college 'X'
I had this friend, who was(is) a topper. In the previous(6th) semester, he failed in this suject Z, and as a result got 69% marks overall. He wasnt allowed to sit for any companies in the placement season because he couldn't clear the cutoff (which was 70%) for most companies and also because he had a back paper to clear.
After the reevaluation, he passed that subject and his marks increased by 4%. Now he dosen't have a back paper and he is also eligible to sit for companies. The only issue is that no more companies are coming to take students anymore. He missed the oportunity.
Result: His career is ruined. He will graduate WITHOUT a campus job offer. And why all this happened with him? I guess you all are intelligent enough to answer that. He is just someone I know. I'm sure there are many out of my 450000 fellow batchmates whose cases will resonate with this one.
Have we really lost the true essence of education? Or have we reduced it to mere profit making business? The results are eye-opening, to say the least.
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