Mumbai College’s convocation, scheduled on Wednesday, in all probability will see the bottom numbers of scholars graduating in eight years. Information from the college present that solely about 1.52 lakh college students, together with 79,741 ladies and 71,907 boys, might be awarded their levels this yr, lowest in a minimum of eight years (see field). These college students have graduated within the tutorial yr 2022-23.
Educationists attribute it to the ‘side-effects’ of the Covid-19 pandemic. TOI had earlier highlighted the difficulties college students confronted in making an attempt the primary full-fledged bodily exams put up the pandemic. Lecturers and principals, nevertheless, declare that it’s going to not have a long-term influence and the scholars’ efficiency has improved during the last yr.
Information additionally confirmed that solely within the two years of pandemic, the numbers of boy college students graduating from Mumbai College exceeded the variety of ladies. In most years, together with this yr’s convocation, ladies have performed higher at university-level exams.
Throughout the two years of pandemic, exams had moved on-line, and the query papers had been in multiple-choice query (MCQ) format. The success price in most programs had shot as much as 90%+ within the pandemic and greater than two lakh college students graduated in these two years. In 2022-23, the numbers dropped by 26%, in comparison with 2012-22. In absolute numbers, graduating college students have gone down from 2.07 lakh to 1.51 lakh within the final one yr. However in comparison with the pre-pandemic yr of 2019-20, when the variety of graduating college students had been 1.92 lakh, the numbers have dropped solely by 20%.
Principal of RD Nationwide School, Neha Jagtiani, stated that the efficiency of scholars was affected, once they got here again to school after two and a half years. “Within the three-year programs, this batch of scholars accomplished their first two years at house giving on-line exams. Within the third yr, we discovered many couldn’t write solutions. The efficiency of scholars was hit, particularly in science programmes. With poor efficiency of scholars in undergraduate programs, the postgraduate admissions had been impacted. We didn’t get sufficient college students for among the science programs,” stated Jagtiani, including that this yr, the efficiency of scholars has positively improved, and it’ll come again to normalcy within the subsequent one yr. “At school degree, the pandemic hole won’t have a long-term impact,” she stated.
Within the first semester exams, after exams moved offline in 2022-23, TOI had reported that the success price in most exams was round 35% and that two thirds of scholars failed the papers. Lecturers had complained that many college students had been leaving their reply sheets clean leaving no scope for giving marks and plenty of had misplaced writing observe. A college official stated that the convocation information numbers are incremental and a few outcomes which are pending might get added as much as the general numbers.
Educationists attribute it to the ‘side-effects’ of the Covid-19 pandemic. TOI had earlier highlighted the difficulties college students confronted in making an attempt the primary full-fledged bodily exams put up the pandemic. Lecturers and principals, nevertheless, declare that it’s going to not have a long-term influence and the scholars’ efficiency has improved during the last yr.
Information additionally confirmed that solely within the two years of pandemic, the numbers of boy college students graduating from Mumbai College exceeded the variety of ladies. In most years, together with this yr’s convocation, ladies have performed higher at university-level exams.
Throughout the two years of pandemic, exams had moved on-line, and the query papers had been in multiple-choice query (MCQ) format. The success price in most programs had shot as much as 90%+ within the pandemic and greater than two lakh college students graduated in these two years. In 2022-23, the numbers dropped by 26%, in comparison with 2012-22. In absolute numbers, graduating college students have gone down from 2.07 lakh to 1.51 lakh within the final one yr. However in comparison with the pre-pandemic yr of 2019-20, when the variety of graduating college students had been 1.92 lakh, the numbers have dropped solely by 20%.
Principal of RD Nationwide School, Neha Jagtiani, stated that the efficiency of scholars was affected, once they got here again to school after two and a half years. “Within the three-year programs, this batch of scholars accomplished their first two years at house giving on-line exams. Within the third yr, we discovered many couldn’t write solutions. The efficiency of scholars was hit, particularly in science programmes. With poor efficiency of scholars in undergraduate programs, the postgraduate admissions had been impacted. We didn’t get sufficient college students for among the science programs,” stated Jagtiani, including that this yr, the efficiency of scholars has positively improved, and it’ll come again to normalcy within the subsequent one yr. “At school degree, the pandemic hole won’t have a long-term impact,” she stated.
Within the first semester exams, after exams moved offline in 2022-23, TOI had reported that the success price in most exams was round 35% and that two thirds of scholars failed the papers. Lecturers had complained that many college students had been leaving their reply sheets clean leaving no scope for giving marks and plenty of had misplaced writing observe. A college official stated that the convocation information numbers are incremental and a few outcomes which are pending might get added as much as the general numbers.