PaRCha - JNU - All Organisations - 2013 ID-55117

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UI Reduce the Arbitrary Weightage to the VivaCl .

Voce markstl1 Resist the Administrative .

insensitivity in the.

delinking of the BA~MAprogrammes.

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J Ensure 5 deprivation points to Muslim.

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Release funds for MCMs and Hostels.

Friends, immediately .

51h October, 2012 .

On the ~Oth of October the ~\cadcmtc Council of the unJversity is going to meet to make imporraat academic and financial .

Pare II where decisions regarding the financi~lmattcrs.

SFI-JNU belie' es thar seriou::. tntcrvcntions.

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.are of utmost importance to the academic life ofJNU students and to protect the socially inclusive character of the university. decisions for the upcoming academic yenr. The meeting is held in two parts -Pat:t I where academic decisions arc made and.

Reduction in the wcightage ofViva-Voce marks; are tnade. Though student representation ts restricted to part one, the need to be made in both parts of d1e meeting to raise the following issues wluch.

educationally depri,ed sections. Therefore, it is unfortunate that JNU allots a weightage of 30% to the viva voce ml\rks in the .

entrance examination...\s \Ve arc all aware, admiss10n to most centres in JNU is based on two components -a wcitren examination JNU prides itself on being open to students from all sections of society and especially to studems from the soc1a.lly and .

and a viva. There is a 70% weightage to the marks in the written exam and a 30% weightage to matks in the \'l\'a .

The 30'% wcightage to the viva marks is in contravention"the allocation of more than 15% of the total marks for the oral interview would be arbitrary and unreasonabto a Supreme Court verdict in November 1980 (Ajay Has1a Etc vs .

Khalid ~1ujib Sehravardi & Ors. Etc, 13 November, 1980) where a 5 Judge Constitutional .

Bench found that.

In fact, in anothe~: case in the Supremt Court (Ashok Kumar Yadav & Others vs S·rate of Haryana and Others, 1985) a 4 Judge .

would be liable to be struck down as constitutionally invalid,,with the vice of arbitrariness". le and Bench found that even 22.22% marks of the total marks allocated for the viva voce test was "infecting the scJectio.n process .

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Restdes, i.n various ce:::ntrcs in JNU, a larger percentage of students are getting enher "ery high or very low marks jn the viv~ .

In CPS for 1nstance, as of 2011, maXJmum students have got either very high or very low marks in tbe Vlva voce owi.th 50 which shows that the viva marks are being used to 'swing a srudent's chances ofgetri.ng into the University. getting moderate scores of 13-20. .

students getting low scores berwccn 0-12, 20 students getting high scores between 21-30 and as a contr~st, only 9 students .

This kind of tendenC}' shows that the viva voce is bel.1lg used to subvert the written exr~mi.nnrion as a way to make su..re that a There was a ~imilat rrcnd 1n ZHCES with 47 students getting the lower scores of 0-12, 12 sru.dents getting hlghcr scores between 21-30 and as a contrast only 9 students getting moderate scores between 13-20..

in an elemenl ofarbitrariness to the admission process..

Since the last m<..ctiJlg of the Acadcrruc Council, the student community has held fumly to 1ts position that the current particular student is tnkcn in or that a parttcuhr st1.1dent is not taken 1!l nnd in that, 1t has a discriminatory.

. wcightage to the viva voce is cliscnminatory potential and brings.

by the Adrruniswnion to look into whether: this wcight:~ge is discriminatory, we find th<lt while the marks in the wntten .

and that it should be reduced. From a recent teport filed by a Comrnittee formed exam.inacion of General and OBC candidates are considerably .

·'marks ip the viva voce examination of Genernl and OBC cnndidates. The Casteisc forces like the Youth for Equality b:tve .

social groups, bu.c also the systemic weeding out of students of socially and educl\.tionally dcpuved sections precisely bec"ause .

close, on average, there is a substantial difference bet:wecn the held that measures can be taken to ensure that the name of the candidate docs nor appear on che form etc. f.-fowever, this is .

of the disadvantages of belonging to these sections -whether it is lower confidence in the ability to :,tt1iculate in English while .

the written examinations can also br written in Hindi or other such factors. Therefore, the arbitral'); weigbtage to the viva an incorrect undcrscauding of Jiscrimination. Discrimination is not only the deliberate exclus10n of students from parocular .

voce xnarks should be reduced immediately. .

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