Oops, JNTU did it again

Its been long since ive got down to writing up my blog, even thou lot has happned in the past few months, once thats recent which prompted me to write a post about it was,

Well, i so called Finished my engineering in May 2008, but i had one subject still pending ( 2-1′s SS ( signals and systems ). which even after my repeated attempts didnt get enuf marks to clear, even tho i had written it quite well.

i had S-S supplementary Scheduled in November-08 ( with 07 batch’s Regular Exams ) so i had lotta time to fill from May 08,  So i took up Traveling , went to Europe Middle east..etc came back to india in October. Wrote my exams well. The Guys at JNTU didn’t release the results even by December, as it was very much needed to apply to Universities for the January intake, without Degree, i couldn’t apply for Education Visa.

So we waited for 2 months to have our results . The Advance Supplementary was suppose to be scheduled in Jan ending or Mid February, as some of my m8′s had quite a number of subjects on hand, so they decided to skip some so they can put in full effort on the others, as the advance supplementary would be in January, and they could still make the March-April Intake.

But that was not the case, the university released the results in End of Jan, and also announced at the time of releasing the results that the exams which were supposed to be held in January-February-09 have been canceled to be held in May-June-09, this came as blow to many including me,  As the Retards at JNTU gave me a 11/80 in external, even when i wrote the exam perfect. In JNTU there isnt anything called * re-correction* or we cant ask for a xerox of our paper ( this rule came in March-09 ). So i had to wait till June to write my exam,

to my luck i had joined JNtU Engineering in the year 2004 so i came under the (RR) batch ( Revised Regulations ), the rules were revised so, the student can’t benefit from them.

the Earlier (NR) and Later (05),(07) batches were allowed to have 2-3 subjects as backlog and they would still be issued Degrees. Osmania University has a feature called *3point system*. if a Student has passed out from the university, he/she but has max of 3 subjects still pending they can pay an DD of INR3000 and they will be given “28 marks”, the student then can add these marks to the existing marks and he can Clear his remanning subjects in such manner. No such option in JNTU or RR batch for that matter,

The only Flexibility for RR batch which was given was, a Student will be promoted to 2nd year even if he fails in all his subjects of the 1st year by request, if he even passes in 1 subject he would be automatically promoted, and Student can have a backlog in the 1st year and still be promoted to 4th Year.

Lab=4 Credits, Theory=3 credits

For RR batch as follows

6 Credits needed to move from 1st to 2nd

56 credits needed to move from 2nd year to 3rd year

112 credits needed to move from 3rd year to 4th year

Need to Clear all subjects to be issued a Degree

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for 05,07 [NR (2002)] as follows

12 Credits needed to move from 1st to 2nd year

42 credits needed to move from 2nd year to 3rd year- ( they r fighting to lower it too 22 )

no backlog in 1st year to move to 4th year no credit specification as per my knowledge.

can apply for degree if student has less than 3 subjects remaning

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So the rules wern’t helping me much as they held me back for 1 year for one damn subject.

In the meanwhile, i attended many interviews and got in few universities, and was issued an Conditional i20 from an French Institution, to which i had already made payments and was just waiting for the results to be released to get hold of the convocation certificate and apply for Visa.

When the results came, it was an another shock, as the system said, I was ABSENT for my Exam, and that there was no record of me writing that exam. The Results were released on 11th July at about 4am. So i was at the JNTU campus at 9am, only to find, its been closed down due to some Job Fair..etc the next day being sunday, i had to spend an awful sunday, waiting for monday, 2 other students wrote  the 2-1 exams with me, and they too were marked absent, i had to write a letter addressed to the principal, and submit it, after doing so,

I had to drive down 100km to get to JNTU university main branch, upon enquiring, they asked me to produce a form call *D* and some other forms, to prove that i had indeed attended the exam. So i had to drive back again to my university, to get the appropriate form. Which later i was denied. saying that, its an confidential form, and its not given to students, and they University will take appropriate action as this has also occurred to 50 students in the other branch of the university.

When we went back to the university to take the D form and other documents, the Exam branch in-charge started acting all moody and weird, and started asking why didn’t we come to college with dress code, trying to divert the topic, a heated argument was exchanged between my friends and the Exam Branch in-charge.

Saying this, he gave us a Minimum of 20 days, before they can get to an conclusion. more 20 days????, this additional 20 days is going to cause me a major setback, as i have to apply for visa and it takes about 40 days to be processed. Now i have to suffer for what is not mine but the universities mistake as the days arn’t sufficient for me to process my visa, as i have to be there by last week of august for Registration and application of Temp Citizen card for EU States

Now the Exams which were suppose to be done with by Mid Feb has been stretched to July and probably August causing me to apply to a another university for Jan 2010 intake, therefore making the gap of 1 Year for their mistake, if it was conducted in Jan itself i could have applied for March-April intake this year.

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update,

Well from what you can gather from above, u’ll have an idea how the university is operating which is total chaos, after the 20days passed, i went back to the university, where i was told, that i had failed in my exam with external marks as 27. because i was so certain, that i had written well, i went ahead with Control Evaluation in which the i have to do some paper work and submit forms after which the university will have to show an   Xerox of my answersheet. it had been 10 days  since they had announed my new result, so i took Control Evaluation  forms and went to the university to submit the form, on reaching there  the form was not being accepted by the system, as it said i had already passed my exam.

Now this came as a surprise to me, i was then told i got 53 in external and i can apply for trnscripts, for which i did, it came i had indeed pass with 53 in external.

i went about my work, and again i went back to uni for an 2nd set of xerox after about a month, now, in it it showed i had passed but i got 0 in SS exam mrks, ( the exm for which i was marked absent )

i have already got my original provisional memo and transcripts, i had only my subjective memo pending and Consolidated memo pending, now i have 2  transcripts with different marks and totals… its totally wierd, cus this uni sucks, now i dont knwo which memo shud i use to apply

Bunch of thievs

Well I don’t even know where to begin on this one, As many of you may be familiar with the Term “Supplementary” as it becomes quite often used when ur a student of engineering.

We Write Supplementary in hope of clearing the exams which we couldn’t Clear, which can be due to whatever reasons, but one can expect is the Support from the teachers (moral or whatever), but that is not the case here, this Time I had 3 Subjects remaining and it being the final supplementary of the season so it made it even more crucial, as if the subject wasn’t cleared then it would take 6 months for the exam to be re-conducted.

well that’s all that, Coming to the college, the exam is suppose to be schedule to begin at 10 am, so most of us were there by 9am, during which we were made to run barefooted across the college grounds, as there was a new rule being forced by an JNTU external that, all students are required to remove footwear and socks before entering the examination hall, this rule was weird enough,

The External Examiner ( a woman about 22-23 yrs of age),was given every one a hard time, as she went to every bench , to every student , checked then thoroughly, she came up to every student demanded the hall ticket and ID card and verified both the pictures with the student’s face, and sometimes claimed that the student on the hall ticket is not the one writing the exam, During which she made lotta noise and created scenes on the exam hall, * shouting n stuff* , She made us empty all our pockets , dust of pants , check the hall tickets as if they were bank Notes( checking in Light), I didn’t know what she was looking for Probably the RBI Gandhi strip found in bank notes, but am sure didn’t get close to finding them. when this was done, the students became very uneasy, as the way of questioning was not proper and it also meant loss of crucial time and Most importantly Disturbing the Fine Thread of patience, We spend all night preparing for exams, if any incident of this sort occurs, we tend to forget things or are not sure about them, resulting in very poor performance.

I don’t know where she was from *external* but, u could make out she must been working in a Central jail office or summat.Well on my First exam, she decided to pick on some poor old unsuspecting Soul.

The guy had forgotten his Hall ticket amidst the tension of the exam’s, so the general procedure for misplaced hall ticket is to inform someone at the office and request and reissue of the hall ticket which is a Xerox of the original one.

So this guy had went to the office and requested for a replacement, the concerned faculty was not present there, due to unknown reasons, so instead passed on the info to the other staff, as our college does not permit anyone inside the exam hall after 10am.

He had to rush Bk to class (in this case exam hall); the reissued hall ticket is usually sent to class during the exam. So the examiner had begun checking during which she found he had no hall ticket, after that it was more like, public show, disturbing everyone, including the teachers. She withheld the paper and demanded the hall ticket, when she was told that the student had applied for reissue, she didn’t take that as an explanation, his paper was tossed around quite often across the room, and by chronological order, every member of faculty was brought in to scold or torture the guy, this went on till 12:30 which left him only 30 mins to write and 3 hr exam.i don’t know what she was trying to achieve by doing this, but it surely didn’t help anyone but her sadistic self.

The Next day, I had an exam as well, so 2day was an other guy’s turn to be emotionally n physically harassed. as usual she was doing her usual bomb scan on the students, but 2day the college teachers had not requested to remove shoes as it was causing a foul smell in the corridors, so her day started by checking shoes, pockets, wallets, pens (checking for slips of paper), bus-passes, calculators…etc and more places u wouldn’t even think, that it could be possible to smuggle materials or data..Etc.

Well she came across a guy whom she had already checked, which eventually made the guy snap, he asked her * why she was performing such unusual checks as-if they were in jail, and wasting the students time, the argument continued so on, and she bought in the office guys again, to pester the student on grounds that he was disrupting an investigation, and he might possibly have material, the scenario continued for quite some time and students left the hall in disgust, that even the college authorities didn’t support the students and were entertaining the external Examiner. Well I don’t how,

How far this attitude will carry this woman, but one should keep in mind that they were also student once. If u want to c my college copy n past the co-ordinates in Google earth (latest version recommended)” 17 23 19.91,78 36 13.84″