Now, students with reappear can be admitted to master’s

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, August 2

Panjab University (PU), Chandigarh, has approved a 15-member committee’s proposal to admit students with reappears to MA, MSc and MCom courses. Those studying under the semester system at the colleges affiliated to the university and having two reappears in the semesters three to six in undergraduation will now be given provisional admission to the postgraduate programmes. However, they will have to clear the reappears in the first two semesters of their masters course, failing which their admission will be cancelled.

Such admissions can be done by the college principal after the exhaustion of the merit list in case seats are still lying vacant. The candidates, however, will not be able to seek admission in the subject, in which they have reappears.

For MCom, if a student has two reappears in BCom, he is required to have an aggregate 50 per cent in the passing papers. Notably, a 15-member committee was formed to look into the matter after the semester system was introduced for the courses.

Controller of Examinations Parvinder Singh informed that one cycle of students admitted under the semester system has been completed, thus the system could now be started. “This will help the students who are unable to appear for reappears during their undergraduate course as a student can reappear a year later and may thus be ineligible for admission to master’s at the time of admissions.”