Students appear for "wrong" exam

Surat, April 30: Lapses during annual examinations are nothing new to South Gujarat university. So its affiliated colleges and students can ...

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Surat, April 30: Lapses during annual examinations are nothing new to South Gujarat university. So its affiliated colleges and students can hardly be expected not to follow suit.

But this time, it was not the university officials but the management of K P College of Commerce and repeater students who were behind the faux pas. Sixty students of First Year BCom realised after 90 minutes on Wednesday that they were solving questions not meant for them!

By the time the students in Block No 24 and 25 of K P College of Commerce realised they were solving questions meant for regular students, it was too late for them to be given another paper based on the old course in Advanced Accountancy-1.

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The supervisors could do little but make a note on every student’s answer sheet that he or she had been given a question paper not meant for him or her. Students of the new course and repeaters take the examination together.

Though the question papers state whether it is based on the old course or the new one, no one woke up to it for one-and-a-half hours. The supervisors, on their part, did not inquire with students before handing over the question papers. Luckily for the examinees, 95 per cent of the course was the same.

Vice-principal of K P Commerce College B D Desai said, “We are ready to take the blame. We will request the university to consider the case of these 60 students.”

Vice-chancellor Ashwin Kapadia said the university had asked for details. What measures are to be taken would be decided only after getting a report from the college management he said.

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Incidentally, the university is yet to take any action on another recent faux pas, when an oversight prevented the printing of a BSc physics question paper.