Queency Jain –
More than 100 final year students of the Faculty of Law, Delhi University have written a counter representation to the Bar Council of India (BCI) requesting to continue with conducting Open Book Examination (OBE) for the pending intermediate exams and not to adopt the Assignment Based Evaluation (ABE).
The letter of counter representation comes after more than 300 students of the final year had written a letter to BCI requesting to cancel the exams by OBE and evaluate the result on the basis of ABE.
The counter representation made by the students stated that the performance of the students must be evaluated on the basis of OBE as it will eventually help them to divert their time from all the negativity around, thereby giving them a much-needed break.
The students also mentioned that anyone mentioning that reading books is affecting their mental health is completely lying as psychologists have already recommended depressed people to read books in order to divert their mind from grief and open new dimensions of thinking.
Furthermore, the students stated that since many of the students are pursuing law as a career and not merely for the sake of a degree, it is important to conduct exams in OBE mode as ABE will lead to unworthiness of the degree, which will eventually lead to unemployment thereby attacking the mental health of the students more in the future.
In conclusion, the students also requested for an exemption in the form of second attempt to all those students who have lost their loved ones in the second wave of the pandemic.
