LLM examinee gives same absurd answer to all questions, gets 57%

Ahmedabad: The National Students’ Union of India (NSUI), the student wing of the Congress, on Monday presented evidence to the vice-chancellor of Gujarat University, exposing shocking standards of evaluation.
A first-semester LLM student was given 57 marks out of 100 despite writing the same absurd answer to all the questions in the public international law exam.The same ‘answer’ was repeated for almost every question attempted. NSUI gathered this evidence through the Right to Information (RTI) Act.
Sources said the regulations on assigning evaluation duty to experienced faculty members are being ignored. Favoured professors are given the task, the sources alleged.
In its complaint, the NSUI said that the LLM student’s answer sheet contained an illogical answer repeated multiple times. The evaluators seemingly did not scrutinize the content and still awarded 57 marks instead of failing the student. The NSUI said that this shows the indifference of the university and assessors.
Students say the university’s exam evaluation system is flawed as English answer sheets are given to professors not proficient in the language and vice versa for Gujarati. This harms the future of students, the NSUI said.
GU sources said that due to lack of interest of permanent professors, visiting faculty members are also being tasked with evaluating answer sheets.
According to university regulations, first-year answer sheets must be evaluated by teachers with up to five years of experience, second year papers by those with five to ten years and third-year answer sheets by those with over ten years of experience.
For postgraduate courses, the faculty member must have more than ten years of experience.