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Year-back system at BPUT goes

BHUBANESWAR: The Biju Patnaik University of Technology (BPUT) here on Saturday announced abolition of repeating a year based on the number of failed subjects from its examination rules.

The announcement could prove to be a reprieve for many engineering students, who had been agitating alleging that the examination rules were faulty.

On Saturday, the Academic Council of the university discussed recommendations on class promotion rules of a committee appointed to look into various aspects of the systems operating at BPUT.

"The earlier system of repeating a year based on the number of failed subjects is abolished; however an extremely poor student (based on a very easily achievable Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) or Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) will have to leave studies at BPUT," Vice-Chancellor Omakar Mohanty said here.

Pointing out that the academic standards of the graduates of BPUT could not be allowed to be diluted, Mr. Mohanty said the earlier rules of clearing the prescribed subjects with CGPA of 6.00 had been kept unchanged.

The Vice-Chancellor elaborated that in the first year, at the end of the second semester, if a student secured a CGPA score of 4.50 or more, he would go to second year regardless of the number of failed subjects.

However, if the CGPA was less than 4.50, he had to leave BPUT and would be allowed to join as a fresh first year student, Mr. Mohanty said. If he still does not score 4.50 at the end of the new First Year, he would have to leave BPUT, he said.

"In the Second and Third years, if a student secures a SGPA of less than 4.50 in three consecutive semesters, he would have to quit studies at BPUT," Mr. Mohanty said.

The academic council decided that there would be no supplementary examinations but there would be one special examination at the end of the eighth semester, only for the subjects covered in final year.

"The inspection system for affiliated colleges would be made more stringent. Colleges where the teachers and the infrastructure would be found to be substandard, shall be liable to be de-affiliated," the Vice-Chancellor warned.

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