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Friday, 21 June 2013

Mother tongue ‘fails’ BE students : Chennai


A physically-challenged student taking part in the engineering counselling session at Anna University on Thursday.  — DC

A physically-challenged student taking part in the engineering counselling session at Anna University on Thursday


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Even though some academicians argue that students’ performance in examination would only improve if they study in their mother tongue, their argument has turned out to be false in case of students who pursue B.E (civil) and B.E. (mechanical) in Anna University’s College of Engineering, Guindy. 
 
The failure rate of those studying in their mother tongue range from 18.33 per cent to 40.35 per cent in civil engineering and the percentage varies from 20 per cent to 61.82 per cent in Mechanical engineering. An analysis of the result shows that pass percentage in several top engineering colleges in the city ranges from 60 to 100 per cent whereas in tier-II and III towns differs from 20 to 50 per cent.
 
Salem-based academician and career counsellor Jayaprakash A. Gandhi pointed out that students who took B.E (civil and mechanical) engineering in Tamil medium in Anna University’s College of Engineering, Guindy, had scored a lesser cut-off than their English counterparts.
 
“A student who joined mechanical engineering in English would have scored a cut-off of 190 out of 200 marks whereas their Tamil friends might have scored just 170 cut-off. Students with an aspiration to join College of Engineering, Guindy, have preferred engineering subjects in Tamil,” he said.
 

Engineering aspirants have been waiting for the academic performance of  colleges for a long time. Even as the Madras high court had asked it to publish the result on June 17, finally Anna university preferred to release the same on Thursday morning much to the relief of the students.


 
 
Source : Deccan Chronicle , 21st June 2013 

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