A height of ‘mismanagement’ has been witnessed at the King Edward Medical University (KEMU) where students received their roll number slips for MBBS final professionals on Wednesday, which is only one day before their examination, Pakistan Today has learnt. Per details, scores of students and their parents kept making rounds of the examination branch of the KEMU to get the roll number slips, which they received only one day before their exams on Wednesday. This has caused a lot of inconvenience to all students.
“All universities issue roll number slips a week before exams so that all students can fully concentrate on their exam preparation…we have informed the examination branch about the issue but in vain…the exam is tomorrow and we are in the university waiting for our roll number slips…we can afford to because we are boarders, imagine the plight of those who have to come from their home leaving their preparation in the middle…it is no joke after all it is our final professionals starting from tomorrow (Thursday),” a student seeking anonymity said. Things were even more difficult for female students many of them had sent their parents to collect their slips on their behalf.
Talking to Pakistan Today, Sajjad Ahmad, a banker who was at the university to get roll number slip of his daughter, said, “I’ve been making rounds of the examination branch for the last couple of days and they have been telling me to check with them next day…it is very frustrating for a parent to be making rounds for such a basic thing…not to mention my daughter’s plight who is already stressed with exams.”
KEMU Controller Examination Dr Imtiaz Bajwa said the roll number slips were not issued unless the examination branch receive all the record regarding those students who are not eligible to sit in the exams due to non-payment of dues or attendance shortage. The said information is passed on to the examination controller by the Registrar Office and the roll number slips were issued as soon as the requisite information was passed on. “It is common practice to issue roll number slips to students only a week before the exams…Even the University of Health Sciences (UHS) issues roll number slips to students only three days before the exams,” he added.
However, KEMU Registrar Professor Farid Khan dismissed the allegations, saying, “The delay is the sole responsibility of the Controller Office, which is to conduct exams because that is the purpose of creating a separate office of the examination controller…this responsibility includes everything including data collection and compilation regarding conducting the examination and they cannot share this responsibility with anyone whatsoever.”
