DU’s Decision to Deduct Marks from the aggregate Marks of the students who opted for Informatics Practices is partial and biased: CBSE
“Delhi University has decided to deduct 2.5% from the aggregate marks of those contenders who had opted for Informatics Practices as an elective subject in their class XII, is completely ‘unfair’ and ‘discriminatory’ says†-“Central Board of Secondary Education†.
The Central Board of Secondary Education wanted a review on the decision taken by the DU and has asked for the same advantage to those who had opted for Informatics Practices.
In the admission guidelines for the academic year 2014-15, the DU has officially announced that the students who had selected informatics Practices in class XII tend to lose 2.5% from the aggregate percentage for taking admission into DU’s FYUP.
In line with the decision taken, CBSE Chairman Vineet Joshi asked the university Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh to review the decision of deducting marks as most of the students were not aware of the decision taken by the Delhi University.
In his letter to the university Vice Chancellor Dinesh Singh, Joshi emphasized that the CBSE treats all the courses of computer stream such as Computer Science and Informatics Practices at par with elective subjects and expresses its concern for students who have studied Informatics Practices instead of Computer Science to be put at a disadvantage by reducing the marks from the percentage aggregate marks.
“In absence of any judgment by the CBSE between these courses, it is overbearing that the course contents be examined by a team of specialists and both courses be treated equivalent so that students who have studied Informatics Practices are not discriminated against at the time of admission,” demanded Joshi in the letter.
In his letter, Joshi also mentioned that such a rule did not exist when the students choose the subject. “Academically and administratively, this seems like a gross injustice.”
students who have studied Informatics Practices should not be discriminated against at the time of admission as we were not aware of this deduction at the time we chose these subjects. As no advance notice was given we request you to please not to deduct any marks. this will cause a huge disadvantage to the poor children. IP was not really easy. we had many big java, mysql, html, xml codings. we have worked very hard. we had given all our heart and soul to IP while doing the project work. please do not do us this injustice.
DU’s guideline to deduct 2.5% for students who opted IP (Informatic Practices)is absolutely unfair. Both IP and CS (Computer Science) have IDENTICAL Competency Development objectives as given in CBSE Curriculum, so both are EQUAL. CBSE Chairman has also formally stated it.
For two long years we have studied the subject of IP, worked really hard to score well and now DU decides to deduct 2.5%. This is very cruel.
My school’s IP Teacher and Principal madam has also written to Delhi University to correct the mistake. I think all the affected students should write to Mrs. Smriti Irani, Minister of Human Resources to intervene and tell DU to bring IP at par.
Time is running out, we need to show collective strength.