Mumbai University inquiring management course paper leak

The Mumbai University is inquiring a probable disclose in a Third year Bachelor of Management Studies (TYBMS) paper that students took on Friday. Last day student appeared for the Human Resources Management paper. National Students’ Union of India(NSUI) associates said they had received text messages from an nameless source listing out questions that would appear in the exam.

Approx 10,000 students appeared for the paper, the last one of the fifth semester’s exam.

All six questions across both sections of the two-hour long, 60-mark paper were the same.

Mumbai University has set up a committee to investigate the issue. “We heard rumours in the morning and we have taken the matter very seriously,” said Vilas Shinde, exam controller. “We will take strict action if this is true. We need to find out where it has leaked, who leaked it, how it happened.” He said the committee would announce its decision in two days.

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“The university should ensure that honest, hardworking students do not suffer,” said Suraj Singh Thakur, state president of the NSUI. “It has become easy to indulge in such wrongdoings because the university employs so many temporary staff members nowadays who are unreliable.”