Fourteen engineering colleges in the city remained shut on Tuesday as students of the Visvesvaraya Technological University (VTU), supported by the NSUI, staged a protest demanding that the choice-based credit system and the critical year-back system be repealed.
The protesting students said the CBCS was not in the interest of students. “In this system, if a student fails one subject in the first year, he/she will not be allowed into the third year of the course, even if he/she has cleared all subjects in the second year. Similarly, if a student has failed in one subject in the second year, but has cleared all subjects in the third year, he/she is not allowed into the fourth year,” said H S Manjunath, state presiStudents also expressed their anger over the confusion in the 2016-17 examination results. They said that out of the four lakh students who wrote the examinations, two lakh had applied for revaluation.dent, NSUI. This unscientific system should be scrapped, he said.
The protesting students said the CBCS was not in the interest of students. “In this system, if a student fails one subject in the first year, he/she will not be allowed into the third year of the course, even if he/she has cleared all subjects in the second year. Similarly, if a student has failed in one subject in the second year, but has cleared all subjects in the third year, he/she is not allowed into the fourth year,” said H S Manjunath, state presiStudents also expressed their anger over the confusion in the 2016-17 examination results. They said that out of the four lakh students who wrote the examinations, two lakh had applied for revaluation.dent, NSUI. This unscientific system should be scrapped, he said.
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ReplyDeleteThousands of students of engineering colleges affiliated to Visvesvaraya Technological University boycotted classes across the state on Friday in protest against the university's revised examination system.
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