Students battle rain to take answer scripts to college

Students battle rain to take answer scripts to college

Dec 19, 2020, 04.44 AM IST

Trichy: With online semester examination in colleges affiliated to Bharathidasan University (BDU) starting on Monday, the ongoing rain has been putting students to hardship in submitting answer scripts in their respective colleges. While the question paper is sent to students through mail, they have to write the exam at home on plain paper and submit the answer scripts in colleges within three hours.

Since incessant rain has been lashing the region in the last two days, students have been finding it difficult to reach their colleges on time with the answer scripts. They have urged the university to accept soft copies of the answer scripts through mail which will help them save time and money.

S Sharmila, a UG student of Lalgudi on the outskirts of Trichy, came all the way to her relative’s place in the city to appear for the online semester examination. Since her college is in the city, it may not be possible for her to submit the answer scripts on time if she took the exam at her home. On Thursday, she had to hire a taxi from her relative’s place to reach the college to submit the answer script due to the rain.

“Some of the outstation students are forced to rent a house near the college to appear for the exam. When the colleges have already collected fee for examination including stationery charges, students are made to spend extra money by coming to college. Most students hail from poor families and are finding it tough to meet the expenses,” said S Subramanian, a parent.

BDU registrar G Gopinath said online submission of answer scripts was a failure during the end semester examination as students were found uploading the wrong files. Therefore, they chose to keep it offline. Since some students are facing issues, the university administration will look into them and find alternatives, he said.

Autonomous colleges have instructed students to send the soft copies of the answer scripts through mail. But the affiliated colleges of the university have asked students to submit them in person after completing them. P Jerold, a first year student of MSc Psychology in an autonomous college in Trichy, said they appeared for the online examination from their homes, but didn’t have to go to colleges to submit the answer scripts.