JU students get examination results after nine months

Tribune News Service

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Jammu, October 20

The University of Jammu that happens to be the first ISO-certified institute of higher learning and research has miserably failed to streamline the examination system as it continue to take six to nine months to declare results of various postgraduate courses.

Much to the chagrin of stakeholders, the authorities concerned have shown least interest in implementing their own decisions despite the fact that their laxity in evaluation of answer scripts has been hitting the student community hard.

Going by the official records, the university took nine months to declare the results of first and third semester examinations of MA Hindi. “A total of 1,358 students appeared in the first semester examinations of MA Hindi, which were held in December last year. The results were declared on October 1,” the records state, adding that the number of students appearing in the third semester examinations of MA Hindi held in December 2014 was 1,543. Out of them only 582 passed the examinations. The results of the third semester were declared on October 6.

Only 164 students appeared in the third semester examinations of MA economics held in December 2014, but the university declared the results on September 29.

There were several other instances where the university took six to nine months to declare results. The examinations of MA Punjabi, physics, electronics, geology history (semester-II) were held in May this year, but the university took almost five months to declare the results.

Official sources said the university in May 2013 had taken a decision to reduce the gap between the conduct of examination and declaration of results, but no seriousness was shown by the authorities concerned to implement it in letter and spirit.

“The university will further decentralise the examination system so that the results are declared in the shortest possible time. We will definitely reduce the gap between the conduct of examination and declaration of results. We have been facing problems regarding evaluation of answer scripts by college teachers, but we are adopting a system where the college teachers would be asked for more cooperation,” the then Vice Chancellor of the university Mohan Paul Singh Ishar had announced.

The sources questioned the “faulty approach” and “old methodology” being adopted by the university to declare the results. “During career-making years of a student, every single day matters for him or her, but the university has not learnt any lesson from its previous follies and it continue to maintain laidback attitude to declare evaluation results of various postgraduate courses,” they said.

Prof RD Sharma, Vice Chancellor, University of Jammu, could not be contacted for comments.