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In a first for the state, engineering students with backlogs from their first three years, will be allowed to answer their final or eighth semester engineering exams as usual, even though these students were barred from answering the seventh semester exams, in accordance with the rules.
These students will then be permitted to answer their seventh semester exams in a one-time special exam to be conducted in September 2019, as decided by the academic council of Goa University (GU). The confusion is due to an oversight by Verna Engineering College - Padre Conceicao College of Engineering (PCCE) who allowed ineligible students to answer their seventh semester exams along with those who were eligible in November-December 2018.
Under normal circumstances, students who have more than 6 back papers cannot answer the current semester. However, PCCE did not follow this rule, and allowed even students with additional backs to appear for their seventh semester exams, thus putting students in other engineering colleges at an unfair disadvantage.
When the GU found out about this, they carried out a thorough investigation at the college, to find out where the problem lay. In the meanwhile, students from the other colleges approached the Goa University Students Council (GUSC) who took their grievances to the Controller of Examinations (CoE) asking for an exception for them too.
Giving in to students’ demands, the academic council of GU has agreed to let all students with backlogs answer the final semester as scheduled, and hold a special exam for the seventh semester in September, a student who did not wish to be named informed “The Goan” on Thursday. The results of the same will be declared all together, soon after the exams.
The Bachelor of Engineering syllabus was revised in the year 2016-17. A new rule was laid down by GU where students with backlogs could answer the current semester, provided they had only 6 backlogs or less. But if a student had more than 6 backlogs, then they had to clear the backlogs first and then answer the next papers.
