Mangaluru: University authorities on Friday appealed to its postgraduate students not to panic about the results of odd semester examinations of postgraduate courses conducted in December 2015.

A.M. Khan, Registrar (Evaluation) said, “There has been a delay in the announcement of results due to the process of transition [from one contractor to another managing examination software]. Due care has been taken while announcing results as we did not want confusion as it happened in the undergraduate results. The delay has caused panic among students but there are no errors in the results announced.” He said that a meeting of the chairpersons of postgraduate departments was called and it was resolved to finish the third evaluation process by May 16 and announce the full results. “Till date, 87.5 per cent of the postgraduate results are announced [41 out of 44 first semester and 36 out of 44 third semester results] on the university website. The remaining results will be announced soon,” he said.

Referring to “to be declared later” mentioned in the results of some students, he told the protesting students that the answer scripts of such students had been referred to the third evaluators. It was because if the difference of marks given by internal and external examiners was more than 20 per cent such scripts would have to be referred to the third evaluator which was final. Hence, marks of such answer scripts were awaited.