MU exam: Students get question paper up to 75 mins late

Students who appeared for the exam at K M Agarwal College in Kalyan complained they were not compensated for the time lost due to the delay. “We were given question papers after 12.15 pm. But students were asked to stop writing by 2 pm. It was a three-hour exam, but we were not given extra time,” a student said.

Dr Anita Manna, principal of Agarwal College, refuted the allegations saying extra time was provided to the students.

Chandra too denied the charge that extra time was not provided. “If we come across any such complaints, we will verify and take action.”
At R D National College in Bandra, too, the exam started late. “Instead of 9.30 am, the papers were sent to us by 10.15 am. However, since our printing machines stopped working for some time, exams in our college began 45 minutes late. But we provided 45 minutes of extra time to students,” said Dinesh Punjwani, the college principal.

Advocate Manoj Tekade of Prahar Vidyarthi Sanghatana, a students’ organisation, said, “From sending the wrong question paper to sending question papers late, goof-ups occur during the exam season every year. It’s a shame that the university is still not taking a lesson from this and rectifying the faults. We will write to the Governor, informing him about these issues.”
E-delivery system a failure?

Following a series of paper leaks in 2012, the university had changed the mode of sending question papers to the exam centres. It now sends question papers through e-mails, weblinks and CDs and the new system is called e-delivery system. But despite such security measures, TYBCom paper on marketing and human resource management paper got leaked on WhatsApp on Saturday following which the university changed the paper at the last minute. The university has now called for the Board of Examination (BoE) meeting on April 10 to discuss the next course of action.

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