The letter to the VC Dinesh Singh, has come in wake of a student delegation approaching Tharoor contending that the anomalies in calculation of weightages have robbed them off getting admission to undergraduate programmes.
"Following our conversation I explained to the students' delegation that the marks-weightage policy applied to students from several states could not be altered.
"But as the their representation explains, there is a problem relating to the interpretation of the rules and different calculations of the weightage differential at different admissions centres. Please have it reviewed so that an injustice is not perpetrated," Tharoor said in an email to the VC last week.
According to the university guidelines, all the discipline subjects must have at least 70 per cent component of theory in the qualifying exam for the purpose of being treated as academic/elective subject.
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Hence, students who have passed from boards, which do not have the 70:30 ratio of practical and theory, will attract a penalty of 10 per cent.
Even as the varsity had announced to do away with the additional eligibility criteria from this year, the students have also alleged in their representation that when they approached different colleges for admission, their percentage calculation was different in each of them.
However, the university officials have maintained that the guidelines have been framed keeping larger interest for students in mind.
"The university has a cosmopolitan nature and the guidelines have been framed as such to provide a level playing field to students from boards across the country," a senior varsity official said.