Many reasons have been cited for the bad performance and the Department of Pre-University Education (PUE) claims an expert committee has been constituted to bring out the measures to improve the performance.
SG Hegde, Commissioner, PUE department rued that he was not happy with the pass percentage and said that, “The main reason for students’ bad performance is that this set of candidates who appeared for the II PU March ‘08 examinations are the batch of students who had appeared for the SSLC Multiple Choice Question (MCQ) pattern question paper of 60 marks.
Preliminary analysis
This posed as an inability as the students were incapable of answering descriptive questions. This is as per the preliminary analysis made by the Expert Committee constituted by the PUE department.”
He further said that the students of first year PU do not study seriously and lecturers too do a liberal evaluation to promote students to second year PU.
“Liberal valuation is not the policy of the PUE department and lecturers need to strictly evaluate the students’ performance. Students who need to be detained for bad performance at first year PU are promoted and the implications are seen in the results of the second year PU,” cited SG Hegde. Talking about the measures taken by the PUE department to improvise II PU results, SG Hegde said, “Remedial teaching for students weak in studies would be included in the forthcoming academic year.
Bridge course
This remedial teaching would typically include about two hours of extra classes to students who will be identified in the beginning of academic year.
A Bridge Course for the SSLC students would also be made mandatory, to teach them about certain topics in the PU syllabus. There is a vast difference in the SSLC syllabus and the PU syllabus and this has been cited as the major impediment for student’s performance in the examination.”
Attendance of 75 per cent in the first year PU has been made compulsory. The PUE Department has recruited 485 PU lecturers to facilitate the measures taken. Special training and orientation would be given to all lecturers as part of motivation programme and to encourage them to teach students with innovative methods.
The II PU results will be put up on Saturday, 3 pm, at all colleges teaching pre-university course across the State. The pass certificate of successful candidates and the marks card-cum-application of the failed students will be sent to the concerned colleges within few days.
Provision for issue of photo copies of valued answer scripts in all the subjects and revaluation and retotalling of valued answer scripts has been made. Applications regarding the same are available in all PU colleges.
The filled in application can be submitted in person within the prescribed date on any working day between 9am and 4pm at the two counters. The counters are: 1) Government PU Girls College Premises, 13th cross, Malleswaram. 2) Govt PU Boys Colleges Premises, Old Fort, Chamarajpet, Opp Bangalore Medical College. The filled in applications also sent through Speed Post/ Registered Post. The application should be reached to the office, within the prescribed last date. Application received after the expiry of the last date will be rejected without any information.
The 2008 II PU supplementary examination will be held from 19-06-08 to 28-06-08. Timetable will be put up in all PU colleges. Last date for submission of application forms by the candidates for the 2008 June Supplementary Examination in the respective colleges is 17-05-08.
DISTRICT-WISE PERFORMANCE
How the districts fared this year compared to last year.
District. April 2008 April 2007
Rank Percentage Rank Percentage
Dakshin Kannada 1 76.72 1 80.33
Udupi 2 76.2 2 79.65
Kodagu 3 60.63 4 66.93
Uttara Kannada 4 57.8 3 67.37
Shimoga 5 54.31 6 63.26
Chickamagalur 6 54.02 5 66.34
Bangalore North 7 50.86 7 58.05
Bangalore South 8 50.35 9 57.74
Tumkur 9 48.35 8 57.93
Hassan 10 44.51 10 53.79
Mysore 11 41.15 12 50.19
Dharwad 12 41.02 15 48.66
Mandya 13 40.58 17 46.59
Davangere 14 39.73 13 49.82
Chamarajanagar 15 39.5 14 49.03
Kolar 16 38.47 19 46.03
Haveri 17 36.38 18 46.12
Ramanagara 18 36.29 -- --
Belgaum 19 35.62 11 51.28
Chikkaballapura 20 34.68 -- --
Bangalore Rural 21 33.7 20 45.35
Bagalkote 22 32.96 21 43.76
Gadag 23 32.38 16 48.04
Koppal 24 31.1 24 37.60
Bellary 25 30.24 22 41.43
Chitradurga 26 28.08 23 39.87
Bijapur 27 24.62 27 28.09
Gulbarga 28 22.43 26 31.20
Raichur 29 22.22 25 31.35
Bidar 30 16.57 28 20.2
PERCENTAGE IN LAST ONE DECADE
II PU EXAM RESULTS IN THE LAST 10 YEARS
YEAR Candidates Appeared PassedPercentage
April 1998 2,88,765 1,01,115 35.02
April 1999 3,19,028 1,24,739 39.10
April 2000 3,23,236 1,34,189 41.51
April 2001 3,94,201 1,54,840 39.28
April 2002 4,13,122 1,89,595 45.89
April 2003 4,18,216 1,88,974 45.19
April 2004 4,26,003 2,08,710 48.99
April 2005 4,72,360 2,49,282 52.77
April 2006 4,70,793 2,31,048 53.97
April 2007 NS 4,57,126 2,31,766 50.70
OS 36,526 4,821 13.19
Note: NS: New Scheme, OS: Old Scheme
HIGHLIGHTS
Issue of Photo Copies: Last date for submission of Application: 13-05-08, Fee for issue of photocopy / per answer script :Rs 300
Revaluation: Last date for submission of application: 20-05-08, Revaluation fee for each answer script: Rs 750
Retotalling: Last date for submission of re-totalling application : 20-05-08, Fee for re-totalling per answer script/subject: Rs 200
