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Leak forces students to take exam twice, delay at other centres

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While the university claims that it swung into action as soon as it was alerted of the TYBCom (semester VI) Marketing and Human Resources Management (MHRM) paper being circulated ahead of the exam on Friday morning, several students had to rewrite the paper.

"We started the paper on time (at 11am). However, when I completed my paper around 12.45pm, the examiners told us that we were given a wrong question paper and we would have to rewrite the exam with the revised question paper," said a student, who appeared for the exam from Maharashtra College, Nagpada.

Several students had received the question paper through WhatsApp just 10 minutes ahead of the examination. The Maharashtra College student said, "When I received the message, I thought it was a question paper from last year and so did not pay heed to it. However, when I got the paper in hand, it had the exact same questions in the exact same order."

Students taking the exam at Sydenham College, Churchgate, too had to rewrite it. "It was just 10 minutes before we were done writing the examination when it was announced that a new paper will be given to us.

We were given a chance to inform our parents and had to start writing the exam in the next 10 minutes. We were at the exam centre for over four hours on Friday," said a student, who appeared from the centre.

At many other centres, the examination began late. According to the university, there were seven centres where the exam was delayed by 10 to 15 minutes. Among those colleges, which started the exam after a five- to 15-minute delay, were KC College, Kirti College, St Andrews College, Rizvi College and Birla College.

"We received a message from the university at 10.30am asking us not to distribute the papers. A new question code and password was sent in 10 minutes. However, due to the reprinting, the exam started around 15 minutes late. The students were given extra time," said Marie Fernandes, principal, Andrews College.

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