The % of failures of the first year B Tech total admitted students can represent the extent of failures rather than the absolute number like 63 or so. 7-8 decades ago, the first year engineering exam. result (those days only Govt. or a very few Govt. aided colleges were running 3 years engineering degree programs with yearly exam pattern) used to be hardly 10% all clear, Allowed To Keep Terms (ATKT) provision not then available.
The main issue of concern is how to handle such failed students. I would like to point out a case. An SC student who stood first in the University exam. was admitted for M Tech prg in one IIT sometimes in 1982 or so, then GATE did not exist. The student was topping all subjects but very poor in English, could not speak even a few sentences. The student out of frustration committed suicide after his Dissertation exam. was over that he went thorough very successfully. To handle such cases I would like to propose:
- Provide 6 months special training as Institute Social Responsibility in such areas as communication skills, IIT cultural initiation, familiarity with etiquette of well to do people, etc.
- Faculty will adopt at least 1 student who needs training.
- A cell will be generated that will go for strategic planning and will monitor progress at least for two years. A few institutes are running such cells.
- To incorporate such monitored students as Cell member in future.
Regards,
Dr. P H Waghodekar, PhD (Egg), IIT,KGP, IE&M, 1985,
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Marathwada Institute of Technology,
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From: "Prof. Bholanath Dutta"
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Subject: [MTC Global] IITs failed 63 students in 2014-15, 57 from reserved category
"The IITs have a rigorous academic system that prescribes minimum grades to be obtained by the students for continuation in the IIT system. During the year 2014-15, a total of 63 students in undergraduate courses have failed to secure the prescribed minimum grade in 6 IITs," Union HRD Minister Smriti Irani said in a written reply.
Out of the failed students 8 were from General category, 9 from OBC, 16 and 30 from Scheduled Caste (SC) and Scheduled Tribe (ST) category respectively. The OBCs, SC and ST students constituted a whopping 87.3 per cent of those who failed to make the cut.
The minister's response came to a question about how many students had been expelled from prestigious Indian Institutes of Technology on the ground of their performance.
In an unprecedented action by any IIT, the institute at Roorkee had in July this year expelled 73 students whose performance was not up to the mark after their first-year BTech programme.
A group of 64 students had moved Uttarkhand High Court against the decision, but the court had upheld the institute's decision.
However, the institute reinstated the students in August this year as a "one-time measure" and said they will be on an academic probation throughout the year and have been re-admitted on strict conditions.
"The IIT Council has discussed the matter and implemented a system called Peer group Assisted Learning (PAL) to handhold students who are socially and educationally backward," she added.
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