Marks scandal rocks Anna University

A mind blowing news i came to read in three websites which includes ibnlive also.It is really sad to hear that a prestigious university had a mark scandal.

As published in ibnlive:

A thriving exam marks racket involving some faculty members and officials has come to light in the premier Anna University in Chennai. The racket has helped children of influential parents who failed in semester examinations to pass with flying colours in two of the university’s four renowned campuses — the College of Engineering in Guindy (CEG) and the Madras Institute of Technology (MIT) in Chromepet.

Rumours about the shocking academic malpractice that flourished through pseudo revaluation exercises were widely doing the rounds for the past three years. However, for the first time, evidence has emerged in black and white. A couple of junior faculty members have over the past month admitted that they revalued the answer papers of some failed students and gave them pass marks on the instructions of an university Examination Department official. The official has since been moved out, but not as punishment.

One of the assistant professors in the Dept of Computer Technology at the MIT campus has addressed his letter, in the form of a confession, to the Chief Minister’s Cell. For some strange reason, the other assistant professor at the Ramanujan Computing Centre in CEG has addressed his letter to an official of a quasi-government body who is well-versed with the state of affairs.

Naming a university official who abused his position in the Examination Department, the MIT assistant professor has said that the former “gave me the papers and asked me to give pass mark for some of the papers. I have been given the subjects from their first semester and other semesters.”

Alarmingly, in April, the official had given him answer papers of subjects which have nothing do with the evaluator’s expertise. The assistant professor, whose specialisation is in computers, has said he was asked to evaluate among others Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics papers and “many more subjects which I do not remember.”

Similarly, the faculty member at the CEG has said he gave pass marks to students in six subjects during Nov-Dec 2009 and April-May 2010. “In future, I cannot do this kind of mistakes where it affects the brand of my university (sic),” he said in the letter.

As published on: indian colleges

Anna University has appointed a panel of 3 members as some students who had failed to clear the exams were given pass marks by the professors who evaluated the answer sheets.   The names of the panel members have been kept confidential.

Apparently, they were forced to give the required marks.

 The mark scam of Anna University came to light when Additional Controller of Examinations was informed by senior professor that   an assistant professor of the computer technology department of the Madras Institute of Technology, Chromepet has evaluated the paper and given extra marks to the student.

The concerned assistant professor has admitted to giving pass marks to students in some subjects.




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