They have alleged that the paper setter for ‘applied science,’ a lecturer from Sinhagad College, repeated questions carrying 39 marks from the college’s preliminary exam held on November 22 in the final engineering first year exam in December. This gave Sinhagad College an unfair advantage in the final exams. Bringing this to the notice of vice-chancellor Narendra Jadhav, director of the Vidyapeeth Development Committee, Dr Pandit Vidyasagar and to the officials of the exam section on December 18, they called for the results for ‘applied science’ to be annulled along with demands for an enquiry on the paper setters.

On Friday, the agitation was renewed when students realised that the university had corrected all the answer sheets on the basis of the same question paper and their protest had gone unnoticed.

“It doesn’t seem that the paper was leaked but still we will look into the complaints,” said examination controller M S Phirange. He said that there are multiple question paper sets prepared by experts for the final exams as model and the question paper that was given to the students was just one of them. Further, he said that paper setters would have to be selected from the pool of college lecturers only.