94% first-semester students of Physics department of Delhi University of the MSc Physics course failed in either theory or internals or both in the examinations conducted in December 2018.
Indicating at “systemic failing” of students by assembling data from the University’s results portal, students found that out of 279 first-year students in MSc Physics, 262 had failed either in theory examinations, internal testing or both in at least one subject.
The protest by math students had started after 35 out of 39 students failed in the third-semester Computational Fluid Dynamics Paper, and 150 out of 300 students failed in the first-semester Field Theory Paper.
In the Electro-Magnetic Theory paper, 101 students failed the theory examination and 258 failed in internal exam.
According to Indian Express, the overall failure rate is high across colleges — 28 out of 30 students failed from Miranda House; 7 out of 7 from SGTB Khalsa College; 48 out of 50 from Hindu College; 54 out of 54 from Kirori Mal College; 55 out of 56 from Ramjas College and 5 out of 7 from St Stephen’s College.
