Nagpur: Vikesh (name changed), a science student, was aspiring to pursue MSc in Maths this year. However, his hopes were dashed when he got a fail result of his BSc final-year. To his surprise, he was awarded just two marks in Maths while he cleared the rest of two subjects, Physics and Chemistry. When he challenged the evaluation, the marks shot up to 19 and the combined marking of paper I and II helped him score 60% in the subject.Unfortunately, by the time the revaluation result was announced, the seats were full in MSc as the Centralized Admission Process (CAP) was in advanced stage. To save a year, he was compelled to take admission in Master of Arts at Nagpur University’s (NU) postgraduate department.Thanks to NU’s rush to announce results in a jiffy, several such students were forced to compromise with their career plans this year. The BSc exams were over on June 6 while the results were out in flat 20 days on June 26.NU officials had boasted of processing a large number of results in a short span. Over 91% results were declared within the 30-day deadline prescribed by the Maharashtra Public Universities Act 2016. Of the 1,278 results announced by August, 1,167 came out within 30 days. Only 108 exams took 45 days while three results needed more than 45 days to be processed.However, there is no deadline or rule for announcing revaluation results. “Officials must be careful about evaluation. It was the examiner’s fault which forced students to compromise with career plans,” the aggrieved student said.Vikesh’s revaluation result was announced at the end of September. The NU introduced online CAP for PG admissions this year. Registration for the MSc admission started on June 28 and the process concluded on July 31. Though the NU had extended the admission deadline twice, Vikesh couldn’t benefit as seats in campus departments were filled up.A farmer’s son, Vikesh said he couldn’t afford to pay Rs50,000 for MSc seat demanded by private colleges which were actually exploiting students in the situation.At the end of September, several students had staged protests at the NU main building demanding extension of admission cut off date. These students had passed after applying for revaluation, but the result was announced on the cut off date of September 6.While students continue to pass in revaluation, the NU officials claim that they do not have any data about such students.TimelineBSc sixth semester paper | June 6BSc results | June 26Admission started | June 28CAP completed | July 31Revaluation result | September endStudents’ problemsThough they became eligible for admission to PG courses, the seats were over. This time, the PG admissions were done online and therefore there was no provision for registering such students who were awaiting revaluation results.

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