The Kannur University’s final year degree examination results are expected to be released next week, amid concern that the announcement of results has delayed due to rescheduling of various examinations including the distance education stream examination.
The university authorities have informed that the valuation of final year B.A., B.Sc., and other undergraduate (UG) course examination papers has already been completed in the four valuation camps set up by the university. They say that steps are being expedited to see that the results are announced next week.
The university Controller of Examinations S. Pradeep Kumar, when contacted, said that efforts are under way to publish the results by June 20. Valuation of final year degree examination papers have already been completed in the camps set up at Nehru Arts and Science College, Kanhangad, Payyannur College, Krishna Menon Memorial Government Women’s College here and the university campus.
Though the degree results last year were published on June 25, the university used to announce its degree results by the first week of June earlier. The rescheduling of final year degree examinations has also affected the university’s efforts to publish results without any delay. In the past, degree examinations were conducted much earlier.
This time, the university set up its valuation camps before the examinations are over.
“This year’s degree examinations are over on June 7 because many examinations were rescheduled due to various reasons including election and hartal,” Dr. Kumar said adding that as per the schedule the degree examinations were to be completed by May 31.
The Controller of Examinations said that it was not correct to say that the degree results of the Kannur University were delayed. The degree results of other universities in the State were yet to be published, he said. Delay in holding the examinations for degree students in the distance education stream of the university was also a major factor to reckon with, he said. Schools were not available for the university to conduct the examinations for distance education students because of entrance examinations, he said adding that nearly 50 examination centres were schools.
He also said that the university avoided any delay in dispatching the bar-coded answer sheets to the camps for valuation. The bar-coding also allowed the university officials to enter the marks in the university server from the valuations camps, Dr. Kumar said. He, however, said that supplementary examination papers had to be verified individually before the university could certify whether the student appearing for the supplementary examination passed or failed.
Students and teachers who have raised concern about the delay in announcing the degree results say that the delay last year could be attributed to, among others, the fact that the new Controller of Examinations took charge in May. This year’s delay, they say, is due to the ‘failure’ of the university authorities to make adequate arrangements in advance to hold the examinations as per the schedule.
According to a college teacher, this burden of the university doubled this year, because of the choice-based credit and semester system implemented in the UG courses for the last three years as the number of examination had doubled. The number of distance education students had also increased, he said adding that the university authorities should have foreseen the situation and planned properly. There was some justification for the delay in announcing results earlier because of the initial problems for getting acquainted with the grading system as, when this system was implemented, the type of answer sheets changed, he said adding that such teething troubles were no longer there now.
