Over 200 students stage protest at ICAI, claim papers not evaluated properly

Over 200 students of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India (ICAI) staged a protest outside its central Delhi office on Monday, claiming their answer sheets were not evaluated properly and demanded a recheck.

The students demonstrated outside the ICAI office in ITO here, alleging that paper evaluators have deducted marks for no reason and even correct answers were marked as wrong.

ICAI conducts examinations twice a year May and November. Results for the test held in May were announced in August, after which many of the students got their answer sheets through RTI enquiries.

Chartered accountant Neeraj Arora, who is also a member of ICAI, said the students compared the answers they had written to the ones released by the institute as model answer keys and found many discrepancies in evaluation.

"They found that many of their correct answers had been marked as wrong and this way, many students even flunked the papers. In some cases, even 12 marks have been deducted," he said.

The students want their answer sheets to be reevaluated and demanded for a more robust system of checking, Arora added.

No immediate reaction was available from the ICAI.

However, the institute had posted a clarification on the evaluation system on September 21 which said, "It has been brought to our notice that certain adverse reports relating to the system of evaluation of answer books of CA exams are doing the rounds in social media."