Two Amity University students, who didn't fare well in exams and stopped from progressing to another semester, consume sleeping pills
Two Amity University students, who didn't fare well in exams and stopped from progressing to another semester, consume sleeping pills
Exam phobia can be literally killing. But, if it concerns a full academic year the stakes naturally go very high for a student.
Two B Tech students of the Amity University attempted suicide on Wednesday evening by consuming sleeping pills when they came to know that they will not be allowed to take their third semester exams as they did not score well in the second semester.
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Arun Kumar, a third year student who brought them to the hospital, said: "I was just passing by when I noticed them lying on the floor. Along with my classmates I took them to the hospital."
Shobhit and Arya were disappointed and disillusioned.
"We stay in a PG at sector 49 and unfortunately we didn't score well in the second semester because we had chickunguniya but we were told that we could appear for the third year and side by side we can give the other papers. But all of a sudden with hardly few days to go for the third semester examination we were told that we would not be allowed to take the exams. We have even registered for third semester exams and paid Rs 66,000 as fee but still we were not allowed," they told MiD DAY recuperating at the hospital.
"We were left with no option but to end our lives," said Shobhit.
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Even other students who came to see the student at hospital complained that Amity is playing foul. They complained that more than 270 students of B-Tech are not being allowed to appear in the examination and during mid semester they have said they have year back. "Not going by the norms of UPTU Amity has framed their own rules. UPTU says 60 per cent attendance is compulsory while for Amity its 75 there are many who had 73 per cent attendance but there was no relaxation. How can they change their rule in middle of a session," said a third year student of Amity who came to the hospital.
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Savita Mehta, head, Corporate Communication, Amity University, said they are looking into the matter. She said officials of the university are in touch with the victims and will reviewu00a0 their academic record. She refused to identify the victims but said, "We are trying to identify them." Clarifying on the varsity decision to stop students from progressing to another semester she said a decision will be taken after the review of their academic performance of the students.
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