We know that when we were students in this university, a student was given grace up to 3 marks to get first class. The grading system may not have that system. But if the examination committee wants to come to a solution subject to discussion with the examiners concerned. Perhaps this could not have been said if the matter had been calculated. But in literature or such theoretical subjects, examiners mainly evaluate subjectively. As a result the assessment varies from one examiner to another. In other words, the student's literary sense is evaluated without judging whether it is correct or incorrect.
One has to wonder if there is much difference between the student who got 38-39 and the student who passed with 40. Or what is the difference between a student who scored 59 marks and got a B minus, and a student who scored 60 marks and got a B, especially in literature and theoretical subjects?
Keeping these issues in mind, the university authorities can give the examination committee the right to give grace marks as before. The biggest question is why can't students challenge or appeal if they are unhappy with the results? The argument in this case is that if there is a difference in the marks of two examiners in the answer sheet, it goes to the third examiner. But in that case the gap should be at least 15 marks. Where fate is determined for one or two marks, how effective is it to rely on a third examiner?
● Biswajit ChowdhuryProthom-aloJoint editor, poet and literary
