99.7% of RGUHS BDS students want final year exam postponed: AIDSO

NEW DELHI: The students of Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences have requested the institute to postpone final year Bachelor of Dental Surgery (BDS) examinations. Coming in support of students, All India Democratic Students' Organisation (AIDSO) Karnataka State Committee has appealed to RGUHS to postpone the examination by a month.

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The RGUHS has scheduled the final year BDS exams 2022 in the month of August. However, several students have expressed concerns about insufficient time to prepare for exam, inadequate clinical exposure due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

“Many students are under pressure as the previous and present academic years are disturbed due to COVID, causing inadequate clinical exposure, lack of clinical postings, ineffective online classes and insufficient time to prepare for exams,” the AIDSO said.

It further informed, “The present final year classes started in January. The final year students should have 10 months of classes and clinical postings as per RGUHS guidelines. But according to the scheduled timetable, students are forced to appear for exam with a span of 6 months instead of 10 months of preparation. And in many colleges the syllabus is not completed. Not even 50% of RGUHS clinical postings quota is done in majority colleges.”

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In this regard, AIDSO also conducted a survey. Out of 1,250 final year BDS students, 917 students have signed the Google form. Nearly 99.7% of them opted for postponement of examination by a month. About 86.2% students pointed out at incomplete syllabus, insufficient clinical postings and lack of time for preparation as reasons for postponement request.

65.4% of students want the institute to postpone the exam by a month while 28% of students want the exam to be postponed by 2 months.