PUNE: The Savitribai Phule Pune University (SPPU) has set up a three-member review committee after two professors — both assessors — alleged that the mark sheets awarded to engineering students of the 2015-16 batch were improperly graded.The professors, Aniket Khandekar of Zeal Education Society and Kamalkishore Atal of the Pune Institute of Computer Technology, said assessors have been using the postgraduate conversion table — and not the undergraduate conversion table — to award grades to more than one lakh students each semester since 2015-16.This causes a difference of at least one point in the students’ grade point average (GPA), they said. Further, the students received grades that were not part of the undergraduate assessment system.“There is a serious problem with the rules that have been applied in converting marks into grades,” Khandekar said, while addressing a press conference on Tuesday. “The conversion table for postgraduate grades has been used, which means the students will face problems at the time of applying to foreign universities or jobs,” he added.Khandekar said the students will not be aware about the miscalculation, as they will only be able to see their grades and not the marks scored.If the committee finds that the professors’ claims are valid, then the students’ answer sheets going back to the first semester will have to be graded again using the correct system and fresh mark sheets issued for each semester. “The final semester is scheduled to end next month and their results are expected in July. So the university must undertake corrective action at the earliest,” Atal said on Tuesday.The two professors claimed that they brought this to the notice of the university’s officials last year and had followed it up with the controller of examination, the registrar, the vice-chancellor and also the Governor . However, they said not enough was being done to address the issue and felt compelled to call a press conference.SPPU vice-chancellor Nitin Karmalkar told TOI the two professors had approached him with these claims, following which the administration set up the review committee. Without commenting on specifics, Karmalkar said, “The committee, under the chairmanship of the head of department of technology, Aditya Abhyankar, is reviewing the matter and a report is expected in a day or two. If the report states that the mark sheets are faulty, then the flaws will certainly be rectified.”The credit system was introduced in 2015-16 for undergraduate courses. Percentages have since been converted to grades based on a formula introduced by SPPU.

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