Mangaluru: The department of pre-university education (DPUE) has decided to reduce the midterm English paper marks to 70, instead of 100. This decision was taken for the students’ sake, said DPUE director Snehal Rayamane.

She told TOI, that the lecturers and students had complained that the paper had several anomalies. “After seeking a report from Dakshina Kannada DDPU C D Jayanna, we have now finally decided to leave out questions worth 30 marks. The questions were from outside the syllabus, and some questions had grammatical mistakes. Therefore, we have decided to leave out those questions,” said Snehal, adding that the Dakshina Kannada DDPU has been officially instricted in this regard.

Earlier, the DPUE had come up with two solutions: either award grace marks or reduce the examination to 85 marks, instead of 100. “After several meetings, we have now officially settled for 70 marks, that will be converted into 100,” said Snehal, adding that this will help students who would have otherwise lost marks.

Students and lecturers hailed the DPUE’s decision, and added that it is taken at the right time.

Lecturers added that earlier they were directed not to take up the evaluation work of the II PU English midterm examination, until a clear directive from the department.