Sharjeel wrote:Mayavi Morpheus wrote:why shld anyone give grace marks if you couldnt even get 35 outta 100

A lil ol' clarification is in order:
We have to score 40/100, out of which 20 are internal marks.If I get 13/20 in internals, then I only have to score 27/80 in the written theory examination. It is extremely tough, even for people who get 19/20 in internals.
It is not a school or High school exam in which you expect to pass just like that. We are talking about engineering examinations, which are very tough, and if someone fails by just 1 mark (39/40), in an especcially hard examination, he is bound (and deserves) to be disappointed and angry.
I know how hard one has to work to pass BE and how it feels when you fail by just one mark. So better luck next time!
My *rant* was against those who think that getting grace marks is their *right*, and the system in general which gives grace marks.
I know its Engineering exam and thats why I said that you have to work a bit harder to secure the minimum pass marks otherwise the degree is useless. 40% is still too less compared to undergrad else where. In US its above 60% [A>90, B>80, C>70, everything else F-fail]. So you see, our system is very lenient as we have way too many engineering colleges and the administration need to show higher pass percentage to justify the number of seats. So, they try to push students by setting easy paper and lowering the qualifying marks and even then the pass percentage is low.
[JNTU 97-98 batch, the first batch after increasing the seats, had a pass percentage of 30%!].
Our education standards are low compared to the rest of world thanks to the low cut off (and extra low cut off for SC/ST even in competitive exams

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Grace marks are perfectly justified when cut-off is as high as 50 - 60%. I myself benefitted by grace marks once.. got an A instead of B based on my past performance. But in the final sem, my GPA of perfect 4 was screwed (and now I dont Dean's commendation) because that prof thought that I dont deserve the grace mark! 8 A grades and one B, gold medal bye bye!