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Up to 80% of answers not assessed in taxation law papers, find final-year students; Mumbai University says it was ‘human error'
Mumbai: Many final-year law students from Mumbai University were stumped to see up to 80% of their answers were not assessed in the photocopies of their answersheets. Mumbai University, in a statement, admitted that it was a human error and said action has been initiated.
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When many students scored in single digits in their Law of Taxation paper in the three-year LLB programme, they applied for photocopies, and found that many of the questions were marked as 'Not Attempted'.
A student said he was shocked to get only 10 marks in the Law of Taxation paper when he got the results on June 9. He cleared all other subjects. "I am a commerce student and was confident about clearing the taxation paper.
When I sought the photocopy of my answersheet, it showed that only 16 marks of the 75-mark question paper was assessed. The remaining questions were not touched by the examiner," said the student. When he approached the university, he found many more students had come with the same grievance.
"In our group alone, we have 96 affected students from across law colleges," he said, adding that many are waiting to appear for the Bar Council exams, or seek admissions to LLM, or to get placed.
He further said that they did not any satisfactory response from the examination office. The students are now seeking an corrective action at the earliest.
The director of the board of examinations said the number of evaluators for law papers is very low. "After reviewing the answer sheets, it was found that a few questions were assessed. This mistake was due to a human error, the concerned examiners have been informed and action has been taken," said the official.
