Students’ body blasts 20 % rule

“In the new internal assessment system, we have to score a minimum of 20 per cent marks in the first terminal exams, or else we repeat the year. But if we fail for want of just one or two marks, how can the PVC tell us we are not fit to be students?” Jennifer asked.

But PVC Dr Chandra said he had merely told the student delegation that if a student can’t even score the requisite minimum six marks per subject in terminal exams, they must have not studied at all.“Some of the students who had come to meet me had not even failed in the first term exam, and others were from second year degree college, which is not concerned with the internal assessment system,” he informed.

VPS, though, will intensify their agitation against the system by organising college strikes if the university does not relent.Placards such as `ATKT system, very good very good; 30-70 system very bad very bad…’ and `Scrap Internal Assessment’ adorned the gates of the university campus.They also had a dig at the newly purchased luxury car Opel Astra for the vice-chancellor, by displaying a poster: `Opel gadi leke kya faida, jab vidyarthi virudh hai yeh kaida!’