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Muthi-ur-Rahman Siddiqui, Bangalore, June 26, 2012, DHNS:
 
Fortunes often get reversed in the most unexpected of ways, and hundreds of II PU students who applied for revaluation of their mark have found it to their bitter cost.

As many as 12,913 students applied for revaluation of their score after the II PU this year. Of them, 1,499 had their marks revised by six marks or more (Students gain or lose marks in revaluation if the difference is five marks or less). To their shock, 41 per cent of them, drew negative change. That is, the marks after the revaluation were far less than what they had obtained in the first assessment.

What’s more, a large number of applications for revaluation did not draw any difference in students’ marks. A whopping 88.40 percent or 11,414 of the 12,913 applications for revaluation saw no change at all. Many students did get a change of five marks or less but it was not added or deducted from the final score. In plain words, applying for revaluation did not yield any result for students and their marks remained unchanged.

Some of the negative changes were so damaging that many students failed after revaluation.

Amith N initially scored 36 marks in Mathematics, but he failed after revaluation, losing nine precious marks. As was Syed Abdul Mateen who lost 13 marks in the same subject. His changed score is now 22. Mohammad Kamil lost 15 marks in Mathematics and his score in the subject is now a meagre 20. Dhivya G lost 10 marks in Physics and she has only 25.

Many other students lost a lot many marks but, luckily, were not pushed to failure. Preeti Basanagouda Patil lost half of the marks in Biology. Her changed score in the subject is now 30, down from 60. Vikrama Gouda and Ramya R lost 20 marks each in Economics. The revaluation result has been a near disaster for Bharat M D, a student of Deeksha College, Bangalore.

 He applied for revaluation in four subjects. While his marks in English and Physics remained unchanged, he lost 14 marks in Chemistry and eight in Mathematics. His score in Chemistry is now 61 and Mathematics 75.

A distraught Bharath says he is too shocked. “I can’t believe it. I hoped to get at least five marks in each subject. But the new result is just outrageous,” he told Deccan Herald.The loss of marks has also affected his engineering rank in CET. His earlier score in Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics was 250 out of 300. Now, it stands at 228. His rank is 13,000. He fears it will plunge drastically.

G H Drakshayini Devi, Joint Director (Exams), Department of Pre-University Education, says the drastic change in marks is because of “strict evaluation”.

In the first evaluation, an answer script is valued by just two evaluators. If the score crosses 80 (science subjects) or 90 (arts and commerce subjects), it is reviewed.

In revaluation, however, three examiners assess the answer script. “That’s why revaluation is stricter and many students lose marks,” Drakshayini Devi explained.

Students are refunded the entire revaluation fee (Rs 1,050) if they gain six marks or more. And the original evaluators are penalised between Rs 100 and Rs 8,000 depending on the gravity of their error. Quite a few evaluators had been penalised after revaluation result, she added.