Karachi University mark sheets errors

Errors and omissions in mark-sheets of many semester students of various departments of Karachi University have become a source of irritation for students and wakeup call for concerned authorities to rectify the system as soon as possible.

Many students studying in different departments of Karachi University witnessed inaccuracies in their recently issued semester mark-sheet, commonly known as 'Performa'. Several sorts of mistakes were observed in these mark-sheets including false entry of subject marks, year of semester, and subsidiary subjects. In some cases candidates were mentioned fail or absent despite securing passing marks.Infact I also witnessed a mistake in my performa which was that,they print my father’s name wrong.
To make the matter further complicated the process of rectifying these mistakes is lengthy and cumbersome. Affected students complain that the procedure to get their Performa corrected is really annoying as they had to pay several visits to Semester Examination Cell (SEC), where they generally receive cold and uncooperative response.
A, morning student at the Department of Mass Communication was grieved after getting her Performa.

She said that she actually had got 80 marks in subsidiary subject Sociology, as it was also apparent in the marks list provided by her teacher; however, the Performa issued to her showed she secured just 54 marks in the same subject. Another student of the said department told that he had got back his Performa after entire processing from SEC with some errors still persisting. .Another student of my class had not got her performa and authorities told her that she had not paid the fee of 2nd semester but she paid all the semester fees regularly.

Interestingly one of the BS evening batch at has observed an unusual case as some 25 students amidst a total strength of 42 students in the class were declared 'absent' in their subsidiary subject International Relation. The affected students complained the problem was yet to be resolved.

Another common mistake was seen that the subsidiary subject mentioned on the Performa was different from what the students had been studying. Students at Chemistry Department and Food and Science Department said that they had not even issued a Performa since passage of two years.

It was learnt that these cases are not restricted to just few candidates, instead a large number of students in various departments have faced same dilemma and majority of them still await to get their Performa corrected. Some students have received what they called 'tampered' Performa as their marks, subjects and dates were manually corrected with green marking. "Similar marking can also be done by any person using a green pointer," they observed.we are the students of evening classes of b.s 2nd year (4th semester) and we had received only 1 semester’s performa out of 3 semesters and still await for the remaining performas.

Such mistakes committed by KU semester examination cell is affected the varsity image among new enrolled students of BS.

Those students which have problems related to their performa are only supposed to register their problem along with the application to their respective Chairperson, though subsequently chairperson bears the responsibility to forward the application to dean for clearance then it will be moved to Vice Chancellor for affirmation and finally it would land in the semester cell for further processing.

Prof Majid Mumtaz department chairpersons said the semester cell would start addressing these issues and hoped that the grievances of students would be removed. (The news)