MUMBAI: Final-year LLB students who have secured provisional admission to LLM in international universities may get their marksheets on an urgent basis from Mumbai University to process their visas and other admission formalities.
However, in a directive, issued by the university to colleges, it mentioned that the assignment-based evaluation (ABE), now mandatory for the law exam that was skipped last year, may or may not be applicable to this set of students. It has left students and colleges confused.
The directive said that students who have admission offers from foreign universities for their LLM programme can apply to their colleges with details and admission proof. ‘Principals, on receipt of such applications, shall verify the authenticity and urgency of such applications and only genuine applications shall be forwarded to the director, board of examinations and evaluation, at the earliest’, mentioned the directive. It added that colleges should also issue results/statement of marks of ABE, if applicable. Results of such students will be confidentially handed over by the exam house to facilitate their transcripts, visas, bank loans and other formalities.
“The last line, in the circular, however, is confusing. They are asking colleges to submit the ABE scores ‘if applicable’. If scorecards of all students from the April-May 2020 exam are nullified, then the ABE should be ideally applicable to all,” said a principal, adding that some colleges allowed an improvement exam to these students.
“The university probably is asking us to announce the results of such students early,” said another principal.
LLM aspirants, however, are relieved that the varsity may hand over their marksheets on time and they may be able to keep their seats.
