Re: ::: vuaskari.com ::: my email to Registrar and Rector about VU

Very good Umair.
I appriciat you for your brave step.
I also passed few papers for which i never attend lectures nor read
books/handouts.
Agar in cheating websites and google groups ke bare main bhi likhtay
to aur bhi acha tha.

On 8/18/11, Muhammad Umair <muhammad.umair.491@gmail.com> wrote:
> Assalam o Alaikum
>
> Dear friends, main nay rector sab aur Registrar sab ko yeh email ki hai VU
> ki degree value k hawalay se.. aap bhi parhain aur comment karain.... reply
> aaya tou aap se zaroor share karoon ga...ok..
>
>
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>
> Assalam o Alaikum
>
>
> Respected Sir,
>
> Now-a-days, we frequently hear that market value of VU Degree is
> low and many organizations don't offer jobs to VU students, don't give
> internship to VU students, etc. etc.
>
>
> Different people will give different reasons about why VU degree value is
> low. As a student who has studied last 8 semesters in VU, I have my own
> thoughts why VU degree value is low. In fact, it was not low, but suddenly,
> due to some change in VU system, degree value got low. I will explain here
> what that change was.
>
>
> Sir, up to Spring 2008 semester, VU had long paper pattern in which 85-90%
> questions were long questions and only 10-15% questions were MCQs based.
> However, when in Fall 2008 semester, the number of students who took
> admission in VU increased too much, VU changed the paper pattern. Now, the
> question arises why paper pattern was changed when long questions paper
> pattern was adopted by VU ever since its existence. I think, that VU exam
> department thought that it will be almost impossible to check such a large
> number of assignments, mid-term exams and final term exams with existing
> staff. Therefore, we change the paper pattern to MCQs. MCQs will be checked
> by computer and this way we will be able to serve the students. This change
> in exam pattern lead to the degradation of VU Degree. Now-a-days, we see
> that most students prepare MCQs from past papers and as a result pass the
> exam without or with much less effort. Even, many students just attend MCQs
> both in mid-term and final term exam and still manage to pass the subject
> (They don't do it with all subjects, just in some selective subject in which
> they feel too much difficulty).
>
>
>
> Sir! Everyone knows that when there was long questions paper pattern, no one
> used to say that VU degree has low value. We did not hear any single such
> instance in which a VU student was said while applying for job that we don't
> accept VU Degree. We never heard of any instance in which some organization
> denied a VU student for internship. But now-a-days, we frequently hear about
> such instances.
>
>
>
> MCQs paper pattern may be good with some theoretical subjects BUT MCQs paper
> pattern can never ever be a good paper pattern for subjects in which we need
> to solve numerical questions like Accounting, Statistics, Mathematics,
> Programming and many others. No one can become a better Accountant,
> Statistician, Mathematician or a programmer by just solving MCQs.
>
>
>
> Sir, we see that admissions in VU are lowering from past two or three
> semesters. When, VU used to provide quality education then admissions in
> every semester were increasing. Now, they are lowering which indicates that
> VU education system has some fault in it.
>
>
>
> Sir, I want to see VU at the same place where it was when there was long
> questions paper pattern An era when no one used to degrade VU. No one used
> to say that we don't offer jobs to VU students, no one used to say that we
> don't provide internship to VU students and so on.
>
>
>
> Sir! MCQs paper pattern have some many faults in it. I mentioned some of
> them above. With MCQs paper pattern, many students get marks that they
> actually don't deserve. We even see that those students pass in exam that
> even don't know ABC of some particular subject in which they appear. They do
> it by just solving MCQs.
>
>
>
> Sir, when there was long paper pattern, only those students passed the exam
> that used to study, but very sad to say that with this MCQs paper pattern,
> those students also pass who do not study.
>
>
>
> Sir! You, me as well as every VU student will love to see VU's degree value
> much higher than what it is today. To do so, I think, VU should change the
> paper pattern to long questions in the upcoming semester. Not only change
> the paper pattern, but also change the mode of exam and exam timing. In long
> questions paper pattern, mid-term online exams was 1:30 hrs, final term 2:30
> hrs, mid-term offline exam 1 hr, final-term offline exam 2:00 hrs.
>
>
>
> Sir, I think that when No. of students increased too much in Fall 2008
> semseter. Wrong step was taken by VU to change the exam paper. VU should
> have increased number of staff at that point.
>
>
>
> Sir, it is my humble request to you to understand the reasons due to which
> VU's degree has low market value and then try your best to remove those
> reasons so that we can again see VU at the place where it was 3 or 4 years
> back when no one degraded VU.
>
>
> Your Student
>
> Muhammad Umair
>
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