The Vice Chancellor

University of Delhi
New Delhi

10 May, 2020

Subject: Acute Dip in English Honours Results

Sir
We are writing this letter to bring into your notice a massive dip in the grades of the students in
the recent declaration of the University Results of the November-December (2019) examination.
Final year students of English Honours (III Year) across many colleges of University of Delhi
have been dismayed by the appalling drop in their Semester Grade Point Average (SGPA) for the
previous semester. A similar problem has been noticed by second year students of many
colleges.

The University Results were declared on 5th May, already delayed by more than five months,
owing to the prolonged DUTA strikes in the university. Almost every student, across many
colleges, has complained of the acute dip in the aggregate result. The students who have
remained in 7+ plus range in past four semesters have scored in a range of 5-6 grade point in
their 5th Semester. Similarly, there seems to be an average marking basis that can be noticed in
papers with a DSE paper mostly marked a 7 while core papers having negligible 8 and above
grade point while the question papers were pretty straightforward. Students had expected a better
result in this odd semester.

Students who had maintained a consistent performance throughout the semesters have been
astounded by the anomalous dip in their marks, which has gone down considerably. Such a
descent had been unprecedented in the previous semesters. Also, those who had 20+ marks in
their internal assessment have only managed to score 6 in some of the core papers despite
completely attempting an easy question paper. There seems to be a huge disparity in these
Internal Assessment and External Examination marks. This can be noticed in results across B.A.
Honours English, DU.

Such low scores will make it difficult for students to apply to Universities outside of the country,
business schools and other merit based platforms.
Also, revaluation of answer scripts proves to be a time consuming process with a few faults that
students have experienced in the past and the cost of applying for it becomes problematic for
some who find it difficult to afford the process.

We kindly request you to look into this matter and request you to re-evaluate the answer scripts
or find a reasonable solution to this problem.

Yours sincerely,
Students
B.A. Honours English
University of Delhi