Give grace marks in final-year online MCQ exams: Mumbai University

MUMBAI: Give grace marks to students in final-year online exams wherever required and in consultation with the lead colleges in their clusters, the Mumbai University directed colleges in a recent circular.

While giving grace marks in a multiple choice question (MCQ)-based exams may be causing an argument, many principals agree to that it is necessary as students are appearing for an exam in a new format and that too online.

But few of them claimed that the university could have given broader uniform guidelines. Colleges have seen 5-10% of students failing in the first few backlogs (ATKT) exams. “When students have question papers based on descriptive answers, the success rate can help in deciding the difficulty level and therefore, in deciding the grace marks.

In the MCQ format, the questions are mostly objective in nature, so grace marks might not be needed,” said the college principal. “But more than the
difficulty level, it is important to address the fact that students are giving
their certifying exams in such a format for the first time.

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News source: Times of India

Update by Bidisha Roy Choudhury