Students' Federation of India calls for protest against DU's new internal assessment scheme

A new plan adopted by the executive council on February 3 reduced the weightage of a theory-based paper for semester-end centralised DU examinations to 56 per cent. As a result, the internal assessment, which previously held 25 per cent of the final grade, will now carry a greater weight in the eyes of the students than it did when the theory exam carried a 75 per cent weight.

Students' Federation of India calls for protest against DU's new internal assessment scheme

The Students’ Federation of India (SFI) unit at Delhi University has called for a protest today at noon at the Arts Faculty against the rushed internal assessment (IA) scheme and postponement of exams.

A new plan adopted by the executive council on February 3 reduced the weightage of a theory-based paper for semester-end centralised DU examinations to 56 per cent. As a result, the internal assessment, which previously held 25 per cent of the final grade, will now carry a greater weight in the eyes of the students than it did when the theory exam carried a 75 per cent weight.

An SFI press release stated, “The new IA scheme has increased the internal marking to 45 per cent now. This is a clear anti-student policy as it removes the students’ autonomy and diminishes the importance of standardised exams. Also, implementing such a huge policy change on such short notice clearly shows that this administration only looks at this new batch of students as lab rats.”

The release further stated that when the new internal assessment scheme was passed 15 days before exams for the first-semester batch, SFI DU took up the cause and spoke to the first-year students in many DU colleges about their reaction and claimed that they had found out that the syllabus had not yet been finished for most students.

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