Karnataka: Valuation trouble for DCET students

BENGALURU: After the II PUC students, now it is the turn of the final year Diploma students to raise their voices against the erratic valuation process. Students who had appeared for the Diploma Common Entrance Test (DCET) on Sunday, to get admitted to the engineering courses under the government quota through lateral entry schemes allege that their final year diploma answer scripts were valuated erratically and that they had lost tens of marks because of that.

On Tuesday the DTE office on Palace Road witnessed high drama following the demand by more than 40 students for a spot revaluation. But by evening DTE officials proved that they were right as the spot revaluation done by the lecturers proved that marks awarded to the students were correct.

It all started with a few students meeting the senior officials of the DTE on Tuesday morning alleging that even though they had done well in the diploma final semester examination, they were awarded much less marks both in the first valuation as well as the revaluation. Their demand was a correction of the valuation at the earliest as they had already appeared for DCET. But officials declined to accept any error in the valuation. However, later, they decided to go in for a spot revaluation.