Plan to entrust varsity teachers with question paper setting a violation of rules, says Syndicate member
Calicut University’s move to conduct entrance tests for admissions to postgraduate, M.Phil and Ph.D courses has been criticised for violating rules.
P. Rasheed Ahmed, a Syndicate member backed by the United Democratic Front (UDF), claimed on Tuesday that the plan to entrust the responsibility of preparation of question papers to teachers from the university itself was against its examination rules. The work should be given to external question paper setters as was being done with normal exams. Otherwise, it would put the entire system under the shadow of suspicion, Mr. Ahmed claimed. There are around 38,000 applicants to the seats, he said.
It was mandatory to assign false numbers on answer scripts before the evaluation. The examination rules mandate maintaining…