APRIL 16: The Academic Council of University of Mumbai today has refused to allow undergraduate students who have failed in their first term examination to appear for their final examination. This rule is a fallout of the recently introduced internal assessment scheme by the varsity.Principal M G Shirahatti of Lala Lajpat Rai College, who sounded the dissent note at the meeting, said, ``I have sought the council's intervention in allowing students who fail in their 30-marks first term examination to sit for their 70-marks final examination. Their final result be assessed on the basis of their aggregate marks out of total hundred marks.''
Principal Shirahatti maintained that though several educationists supported his argument, the Council headed by the Vice Chancellor stuck to its rigid stance of neither withdrawing disqualification provision nor introducing supplementary examination for unsuccessful students except on health reasons.
The 10-marks project work, to be introduced from next academicsession, has been suitably liberalised as suggested by the educationists earlier.
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