Nagpur: The Nagpur University (RTMNU) officials have clarified that there will be no guarantee that the questions provided in the question bank by colleges would appear in the actual paper.
The official reaction came after the students blamed RTMNU for not providing the question bank as assured by the state department of higher and technical education in its letter to all the universities. Even the colleges expressed inability to provide it stating that they not only lacked teachers, but also did not have subject experts for framing the questions.
RTMNU stand is also contradictory to the one taken by higher education minister Uday Samant,the concept of bank means a particular set of questions would be provided to the examinees for study and paper would be based on those only.
Board of Examination and Evaluation (BoEE) director Prafulla Sable endorsed RTMNU officials’ stand on the question bank but refused to comment further. “Even the colleges could collaborate with each other for the question bank by forming a cluster if they lack teachers of particular subjects. There are various ways and means to resolve the issues”.
Engineering students said their colleges had provided them a reference question bank, which the latter indicated that a few of them may be asked in the RTMNU question paper. “All colleges are providing links for reference questions, but not taking any guarantee that RTMNU would ask questions from those. Our syllabus was not fully covered due to online teaching during the pandemic period. What is the use of such reference questions if those would not be a part of RTMNU paper?” they asked.
RTMNU officials said colleges were unnecessarily creating a fuss over the issue as they only frame questions for the university for question sets. “If they can provide questions to RTMNU, why can’t they provide those to their own students? The colleges can share the questions among each other. All decisions were not taken alone by the RTMNU administration but by the BOEE, which is the statutory body for deciding anything about the exams.”
The officials said the decision to handover the evaluation work to colleges was taken to ensure that the results would be out at the earliest. “We will try to declare the results within three weeks of the last paper, if the colleges cooperated. Another objective is to start the next academic session on time. It was inordinately delayed for the last two years due to the pandemic,” they said.
Students start sharing questions through social media
After refusal by many colleges to provide question banks, the aggrieved students found a new way to deal with the crisis. They started groups on various social media platforms like WhatsApp, Instagram and Facebook to share questions provided by a few colleges. They are calling their counterparts from all colleges in Bhandara, Gondia, and Wardha, besides Nagpur, to come together on these platforms. They are also sharing their grievances stating that they need to help each other in the moment of crisis.
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