Mumbai University TY BCom re-exam on April 11

Third-year BCom (TY BCom) students, rejig your post-examination holiday plans. The University of Mumbai has rescheduled the marketing and human resources management (MHRM) paper for April 11, which was distributed at an examination centre a day before the scheduled date.

A three-member probe committee, headed by Dr TP Madhu Nair, dean of faculty of commerce, submitted its report on the leak to vice-chancellor Dr Rajan Welukar on Sunday morning. Dr Nair confirmed the news. “The MHRM paper was distributed by mistake a day before at the BNN College, Bhiwandi. Seventeen of 21 blocks, comprising 30 students each, received the paper.”

Since affiliated colleges are scattered across five districts, the university sends papers to examination centres twice a week, and that’s how the BNN College ended up with the MHRM paper a day earlier.

Up until Sunday, university officials had refused to admit that the paper had been leaked out prior to the day of the examination on March 28.

Over 85,500 students, many of whom have already headed off on their vacation after the last paper on March 30, will have to sit the examination again. Several TY BCom students complained that they were being “punished” for a college’s mistake.

The university committee was probing the claims of a student who on March 30 appeared in a news channel and claimed that candidates who were waiting for their business economics paper inside the examination hall at BNN College on March 27 were instead given the MHRM paper. Questions from the paper then began doing rounds through SMS across the city. To save face, Welukar and BNN College authorities repeatedly denied the leak till Sunday.