I P University & It’s Loopholes (may be not!)

Well the result has been decleared and most of us are all clear as this semester was not very tough. As always, it started with the flashing of datesheet on the IPU official website and students started studying like mads because no one wants to give any chance to get a back and sit sad in the darkness.
All of us were eligible so we got a seat each in this university. No one is bad student (in my opinion!). After announcement of the date sheet, the days pass very fast and papers come at hand. The exams start and most us attempt 75 marks’ questions out of 75 marks. Only few leave some questions who struggle with their pace of writing.
After writing exams, we get few holidays and new semester starts with the new weather, new season and of course new atmosphere. Nayi Sarak market gets filled with the books and students start rushing there to get all new books. Few guys and girls try to fall in new relationships during this time because there is not any extra pressure of exams.
After three months from this time the results on non technical departments start getting put on the IPU website. The heartbeats of the technical and non-technical students start pacing up and their brains start entering into an unstable state. After some hoax news of result out and tremendous stress counting days (where each day seems really very hard to pass!), the result of the various engineering departments start coming on the official website of our university. Students (web wizards, better call!), who always keep checking sites start texting and calling their college and non college mates to check their result as soon as result is decleared. Facebook accounts get filled with the status updates like ‘ I’m all clear, thank god, I got 80% or so, Thanks to Sai Baba who helped in clearing all the papers’ etc etc. Few people update their status like ‘I worked really very hard but got 1 back or so’.
Delhi fills with joy and cheerfulness with the opening of the hundred of beer (& wine) bottles along with the soft drinks’ bottles. Because guys like me are okay with the cold drinks and ice creams. Number of attendance start increasing in the city malls to celebrate all clear parties. Few love to enjoy shopping with their parents, as if they would have promised to buy jeans, t-shirts, foot wears and more dresses (I don’t know much about girls’ dresses, so..!) if their kids get no backs in their result. Some propose to their opposite sexes people to be their girlfriends / boyfriends after getting good marks. Old couples start dating everyday to renew their love. How can I forget to mention my story here. I start waiting for Tanya standing outside her college for roaming and eating with her at our favorite outlets in South Delhi. Few unlucky people start drinking wines and puffing cigarette puffing and freeing the news of getting backs with the smoke of the cigarettes out in the air. Unfortunately I’ve quit smoking.
Pawan is a stud guy of my group. I can’t dare to call him a ‘nerd’ because guys in my group love to be called studs only. Like other engineering nerds they hide the number of hours they give on their study tables but never fail to share the stuff like – which is the best porn site and who has the best cleavage in the college and outside. Anyways, he works really very hard focusing on each and every word coming out of the lecturers’ mouth in the class. He goes for tutions also to get the left uncleared problems cleared. Tutors teach really well as they take handsome amount to clear all the doubts. Despite depositing around 70,000 bucks’ cheque as one year fee to their colleges of IP University every year, students love to spend more on the subjects so that they won’t get any back paper in any semester. Well, Pawan is a rich guy and he can pay for any number of tutions.
Let me come to the point. Students don’t leave any stone unturned to get good marks in the exams. Despite writing exams nicely attempting all the questions, they live in a fearful and trauma state of getting back (by mistake!) in any subject.
Yes, this fear comes in their mind from IP University’s marking system. ‘The checkers check our answer sheets as if they have old enimosity with us,’ people say it, generally. Maximum students (good, average, better) get 35 to 50 marks out of 75 marks in the external exams. Thanks to the colleges that give 20+ marks out 25 to all of their students in the internals. After getting 20+ marks in the internals there is least chance of getting any back. Unfortunately, few people get backs even if they score 25 out of 25 marks in the internals.
After getting backs the rechecking forms including 230 bucks as rechecking forms’ fee start getting deposited in the respective colleges. ‘The rechecking forms are useless.’ Most of us say it. Only few out of  hunderds get their marks altered. I’ve been studying in this university for the last three years and I never understood the marking system in its exams. I always get surprised and shocked when nerds like Pawan get a back in any paper. I never understood the rechecking form system (including 230 bucks as rechecking forms’ fee!) of IP University where only few out of hundreds get their marks increased (or decreased!). My classmates always say that ‘in rechecking no one gets his/her marks increased so it’s useless’. Not even a single students of our university say good about it’s rechecking system.
I want to ask the respected and reputed IP University [ Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University, Delhi] exam system that :
1. Are we such bad students who can’t score 30 to 35 marks out of 75 marks in the externals?
2. Are the rechecking forms really useless?
3. Is our marking system so real and true that left students with back paper to study the same subject and get it cleared or get the back again by the next year?
Well, there are million of questions start coming in the mind when you get any back after working hard really very hard and honestly. IPU conducts it’s entrance test and students are selected on the basis of their talents except few like Tanya (my sweetheart friend!) who get a seat by paying lacs, what is called a management seat here.
The disadvantages of getting backs are countless. Its affects range from training, internship and placement in good companies to suicide (that means end of one’s life just for not getting a engineering degree!). Students start doubting their talents too.
But I love the way time is going on in this university that is full of surprises and shocks, I don’t know why.
Life becomes no lesser than hell when you start taking everything very serious and there is lack of surprises. Let the time play it’s role. Enjoy each day of your college life because it’s not going to come again in this life. Guys and girls who are still single, fall in love with their respective ‘opposite sex’. Love is the most wonderful thing in this world....