Student Scored 257 Out of 100 in Bihar University, but Denied Promotion

In an ironic yet concerning incident, a student from Baba Saheb Bhimrao Ambedkar Bihar University in Muzaffarpur scored 257 out of 100 in post graduation exam but what’s more concerning is that despite this beyond arithmetic score, the student is denied promotion. There are over 100 results still pending to be declared due to the internal marking issue, raising questions about the  university’s evaluation process. 

A Misstep That Can Not Be Neglected

Students, parents, and even faculty are shocked by the recently declared postgraduate third-semester results at BRABU. One student was mistakenly granted a staggering 257 out of 100 and 225 out of 30 on two papers respectively. Ironically, despite these superhuman scores, the student had not even been promoted to the next semester. 

However, this is not a single case. More than 100 students are awaiting their results, apparently due to late submission of internal marks by their colleges, officials of the board of secondary education said.Out of about 9,000 students who took the exam, 8,000 managed to clear it, but those from Hindi, English, and Science streams are raising red flags over repeated errors and pending mark sheets.

Graduate students in Limbo, Careers at Stake

It is not only a funny typo to many of them, but also their future. Students are running to the university office from college in a bid to have their results rectified. The fear is genuine and the student said: “Those mistakes endanger our future careers, yet when this happens, the university administration quickly dismisses them as this being a case of minor errors”.

Why was this so?

Officials at the university acknowledge the mistake. According to examination controller Professor Ram Kumar, the errors were made because they entered the data manually on Excel sheets and this led to miscalculation of the marks. Some students were wrongly marked as failed, while some marksheets are withheld without any explanation. 

Professor Ram Kumar said, “As soon as we received complaints, we conducted a prompt investigation and corrected the errors. The computer operator has been strictly warned and instructed to thoroughly verify results before publication in the future.”

To avoid these disasters the university claimed that it is currently modifying its software so that it would automatically deny any grades that were exceeded beyond the maximum limit. The principals have also been requested to provide the internal marks missing within two days and promises of measures against the staff who will be negligent in future. Because it directly impacts the career of the students, BRABU is showing concerns. 

Notably, this is not the first time that the university has got entangled in controversy. Students have raised their voices over different kinds of errors like mindless checking and out-of-the-blue failure by even 1-2 marks. They claim it to be the “normal” working of BRABU. Every time, the administration refers to such an incident as a small error and sweeps issues under the carpet, and students are forced to tidy them.

Although the university guarantees that in 48 hours all the discrepancies will be resolved, there is a bigger question: in the days and age when all illustrations of digitization are supposed to simplify life, how can such fundamental errors still shove their way through? More to the point, who will be held responsible in case the future of the student has been put at stake?

Hopefully, BRABU students can just wait, and hope that this incident does not affect their career. The case is however a poignant reminder to all universities: results hold the power to decide the future of a student, which is where there is no space for any error. This controversial event all Bihar University might harm the future of students if the university is unable to clear its name of all stains and faults. 

Students are praying and hoping that their PG results are rectified and they could proceed with the next step towards their career.