Jumbling system deferred for Intermediate Students : Ipe

The implementation of the jumbling system for Intermediate practical exams has once again been deferred.

Bowing to pressure from managements of private junior colleges, the state government on Tuesday announced that there would be no jumbling system for Inter practical exams this year. A total of 4,84,455 students have registered for Inter practicals scheduled to be held from February 3 to 24.

Under the jumbling system, students are supposed to give their practical exams in colleges other than their own to minimise scope for malpractice. Presently, practical exams are replete with malpractices as lecturers tend to favour the students as the exams are held in their own colleges.

The jumbling system is being successfully implemented for Inter theory exams for the last several years to check malpractice. However, the government’s efforts to extend the system to practical exams have been in vain since 2008.

“The government has decided to postpone the implementation of the jumbling system in Intermediate practical exams by a year. We have received several representations from the managements of private junior colleges and also from the public representatives of Telangana region, who requested the government not to implement the system this year. However, the government is committed to implement the jumbling system in practical exams from next year come what may,” said minister for secondary education K. Parthasarath.

There have been large-scale complaints of irregularities in practical exams since the 2008-09 academic year, when the government decided to give 25 per cent weightage to marks secured in Inter science subjects while determining Eamcet ranks.

Second-year MPC candidates have practicals of 60 marks, 30 each in Chemistry and Physics, while BiPC candidates have 120 marks, 30 each in Chemistry, Physics, Botany and Zoology.

There have been complaints that some corporate and private junior colleges have resorted to irregularities to secure state ranks in Inter exams by ensuring that majority of their students secured 100 per cent marks in practical exams irrespective of the fact that the students might not even have given their exams and that many of these institutions did not have proper laboratories.

Meanwhile, the Govern-ment Junior Lecturers Association has demanded scrapping of giving weightage to practical exam marks in Eamcet in the wake of the government’s decision to postpone the implementation of the jumbling system.

GJLA general secretary Dr P. Madhusudan Reddy alleged that the government had been postponing the system under pressure from corporate colleges.