VTU to reform evaluation system

Visvesvaraya Technological University has decided to conduct evaluation at the college level. From the next semester, the university will announce the results within a week of the completion of the examination.

The Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU) is planning to decentralise the evaluation system to avoid delay in the announcement of results of engineering courses, The Hindu reported. 

The university has decided to announce the semester results within a week of completion of the last exam and evaluation of the answer sheets will be conducted at the college level. 

208 engineering colleges affiliated to VTU  

There are 208 engineering colleges affiliated to VTU and a total of around three lakh students are studying in these colleges in various semesters. The university is assessing the students through the semester examinations. However, the delaying of semester results is a common complaint every year. 

Sometimes, the previous semester’s results have been announced one month before the current semester exams and it has put students in trouble. All these problems have been caused by the delay of answer paper evaluation. Therefore, to avoid all these problems, the university has decided to reform the evaluation system. 

As of now, the VTU is conducting a centralised evaluation system. The university has already successfully implemented the digital evaluation system. After scanning of answer sheets, the university will serve those digitised answer papers to evaluators’ login IDs. All the evaluators should compulsorily come to the particular evaluation centre. It is among the reasons for delay of evaluation. Therefore, the VTU has decided to decentralise the evaluation system. According to the new system, the evaluation will be held at the college level. 

S Vidyashankar, Vice-Chancellor, VTU, said, “To avoid delay of semester results, reforms in the evaluation system is highly needed. Therefore, we decided to conduct evaluation at the college level. From the next semester, we will announce the results within a week of the completion of the examination.” 

“The new system is a time saver and it will avoid bringing all evaluators to the evaluation centres. We are planning to conduct the evaluation in all the engineering colleges under the supervision of colleges principals concerned. Answer sheets will be mixed up and the answer papers will be distributed among different colleges. Same college answer sheets will not be evaluated in the same college. Coding system will also executed,” he said. 

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