IS REVALUATION ANOTHER WAY TO GRAB MONEY...???????

      (This is a follow up of my first blog) 

      Examinations are carried out to evaluate the knowledge a student achieved in a subject over a period of time. But, nowadays examination turned out to be a nightmare for the students’ community. It is not confined only to school students who face central evaluation in their 10th and 12th standards. It has become a usual affair for the college students, in particular to the students of ANNA UNIVERSITY.

In recent years, the number of students who are applying for revaluation had gone leaps and bounds. It is because of the insincere evaluation done by the evaluators and perhaps the lack of sincerity to monitor the evaluators by the controller of examination. In recent days most of the papers are evaluated by the staffs who haven’t handled the paper for years. It has its own pros and cons. To apply for revaluation a student has to pay Rs.400 per paper, Rs.700 to get a photocopy of evaluated paper and Rs.3000 to challenge a paper and it will be reimbursed if your score is incremented with a margin of about at least 15 marks. It is not only the case of money which should be accounted for, but the mental trauma each student undergoes.

There may be various reasons to this menace but the crux is the lack of proper and qualified evaluators. For instance, in engineering each student will have a general paper viz, total quality management, environmental science and engineering or any one other department paper in each semester. In most of the cases the evaluation of these papers are not done by the concerned staff who handled that paper. This often leads to improper correction which fetches arrear to most of the students.

To cite an example, a student from a college affiliated to ANNA UNIVERSITY had spent a whopping amount of Rs.19000 for revaluation since her first semester. Out of which she had challenged two papers and got good score at the end of it. An evaluator should think that all students cannot afford to pay this amount and they have no other go other than to sit and suffer. This hurts badly a final year student who is set to appear for campus at the end of it and who applies for higher studies in abroad. Because, most of the companies will come with no standing arrears as their main criteria. It is unfortunate if a bright student gets arrear due to improper correction by some evaluators which literally ruins the lives of students. So it is the need of the time education department to act heavily on this issue.