This is another instance of ‘absent-mindedness’ of evaluators. While evaluating the II PU answer scripts, evaluators kept aside practical marks in most cases. Instead, they marked absent in the practicals column. Many complaints related to such carelessness came to the fore on Friday too when irate people gathered in front of PU Board.
Narasimha Murthy of Vivekananda Vidya Niketana complained he had been scoring first-class all through. When he received the mark-sheet, he was stunned to see he was given 50 marks for theory in Chemistry, but marked absent for practicals.
He says he had attended the practical examination and teachers in the school told him he got 10 out of 10 marks in practicals.  “Right now, I am getting 68 per cent and after ten more marks are added, it would reach close to 70 per cent,” he said.
Similar is the case of Revathi from Raichur.
Her father says the girl, pursuing arts, had attended the geography practical examination but the mark-sheet showed her as absent.
Deepika Hatti from Gulbarga has a similar woe. Her brother said she had scored 359 marks and required one mark to score first class. She had attended the history practical exam, but was marked absent.