PU allows admission to MA with reappears in Bachelors

Lovleen Bains

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Doraha, July 14

The candidates, who have not been able to qualify their undergraduate examinations, seems to have heaved a sigh of relief as Panjab University, Chandigarh, has allowed them to take admission in any Masters degree. The university has decided that a candidate, who had appeared for undergraduate courses under the semester system, and has only two reappears from Semester-I to VI, can take admission in MA and MSc.

Prof Kamal Kishore Sharma, Senator and Syndicate of Panjab University, said: “This chance will save a year of students who have been caught up in a tight situation due to reappears. It is not necessarily that a student, who has not cleared an exam and sat for reappear, is casual about his/her studies. There may be several other reasons such as he/she may not have fared well due to ill health or some mishap or due to any other unavoidable circumstance. This opportunity shall enable them to pursue their Masters degree and clear their reappears as well.”

Hapreet Kaur, a candidate who had a reappear in the Sem-VI, shared that she had never thought she would ever get a reappear. “My attempt was 100 per cent and I was astonished to see the result that I had failed the exam. I am confident I would pass the exam this time as I have applied for re-evaluation. But now, as the university has allowed admission in MA despite a reappear, I am greatly relieved as the result of re-evaluation shall be out late.”

“I am a Sem-VI student of BA. My paper of English did not go well and I got a reappear. My parents had informed me beforehand that they would fix my marriage if the result of graduation did not come out well. I had an ardent wish to pursue MA in sociology but I knew that I have ncould not evade the decision of marriage my parents had taken long ago. It is this decision of the university with which I can at least convince them to give me one more year to clear my re-appear and give a kick start to my degree in postgraduation,” shared Sonia, student at a local college.