The mood at the Pre-University Department premises in Malleswaram on Monday, as hundreds of parents and students thronged the department premises to apply for photocopies of answer scripts, was that of dejection interspersed with anger.
Dejection because scores of students felt they had not obtained the marks they had expected in the II PU examination and anger because of the turmoil they had to go through.
The major grouse was that many talented merit students in the science stream had obtained abysmally low marks.
 Many parents and students had to travel during the weekend from far of places like Bidar and Gulbarga to reach Bangalore on Monday to apply for the photocopy of their answerscripts.
“My son says he has done exceptionally well in all his optionals and was expecting atleast 85 per cent. But to our shock we found he had failed in all subjects. I rushed to Bangalore to apply personally for the photocopies. Something has gone terribly wrong”, said S C Patil from Dharwad. His son studied at Karnataka Science PU College.
Another parent J I Kittur from Mangalore said that many students had obtained very low marks in Chemistry. “Even bright students have got marks like 35-40. What was the hurry to declare the results so early. The PU Board should have double checked the results before announcing the same. We are made to suffer for no fault of ours”, he said.
Ankur from Kumaran’s PU College, who too had come to the department premises to apply for photocopy of his chemistry and mathematics answerscripts says he will switch over to the commerce stream.
Ankur who was expecting around 75 per cent has secured only 60.
“I am not sure that I will get a seat in a good engineering college with this percentage. There is no point in pursuing BSc as it has no scope. I have applied for BBM”, he said.
His friend Vijay K agrees. “We are left nowhere. Even if we get an improvement in our results, it will be past June and all admissions would have closed by then”, he rues.
Meanwhile the PU department on Monday had opened six counters to receive the applications following Saturday’s protest by students citing lack of facilities. However, no additional counters had been set up to issue DDs.