The University of Calicut is conducting re-examination for 83 undergraduate students of the 2019 batch, whose answer scripts could not be found even months after their evaluation got over.
The missing answer scripts of the second semester exams had hit the headlines, with some newspapers reporting that as many as 3,500 of them could not be found. The evaluation was completed in October 2021.
The university had not assigned false numbers to the answer scripts, which is a long process, in a bid to finish off the evaluation as fast as possible. The authorities had claimed that the pandemic-induced restrictions had already delayed the conduct of the exams and the announcement of results. However, the lack of false numbers led to some amount of confusion. Many answer scripts were not returned.
