2,500 students to miss II PU exams due to shortage of attendance

Team Udayavani, Feb 28, 2019, 7:51 AM IST

Bengaluru: Over 2,500 students of II PU will not be able to appear for the Board exams, starting from March 1,  owing to shortage of attendance. As 6,73,606 second pre-university (II PU) students are all set to take their Board exams

As per the Supreme Court’s directions, the Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) had made it mandatory that students, in order to attend their PU Board exams, should have 75 per cent attendance. 

However, more than 2,500 students ignored warnings by the college authorities, and will not have a chance to take the exams now. Department officials said the principals of the concerned colleges have been asked not to generate admission tickets of these students.

A senior official of the department informed that intimations were given to students and also to parents about their attendance. Despite that, some of them did not take it seriously. 

He further added that now the authorities also cannot help it as they have less than 75 per cent attendance.

The students who would miss the final exams due to shortage of attendance would not even be able to appear in the supplementary exams which will be held in June.