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Shame on students for opting for scam electives and getting E without any studying.
NUJS needs a thorough review.
OK.
Lovely: nobody is going to touch that person's elective after the two semester trauma that we had in the first year. She might be a great teacher (undoubtedly) but is not the most flexible or accommodating.
Sandeepa: largely irrelevant elective and historically gives low marks. Lose lose for students
Arup: great teacher. His enviro course was the best structured and delivered course that I have seen in my five years here. But water law? How is it relevant when the lil part of the Batch that is placed is going for Corp jobs and the unplaced majority needs good Corp credentials to get the job they desire. The way he covered even the most minor rules and regulations in enviro was commendable and I would happily take his course if he was teaching something corp based.
Vkt: his juris course was not structured in the best possible manner and his marking bell curve is also on the lower side. Not a good deal
Mouri and Sanjay Kumar: you will know why the courses were not taken if you are a noojie.
Some faculty may be really great but if their courses are not relevant why will students want to put in effort. Even the drugs course is largely irrelevant but the faculty has a great marking history. If I am not going to learn anything relevant, might as well chill and get free marks.
Nujs does need a thorough review, but to align the courses with the expectations and needs of students. Analyse why certain kinds of faculty give free marks, you'll be surprised to know the reason. Get good faculty with relevant courses and you'll see courses like drugs perish. E.g. IT Law
Also get a legitimate moderation committe and align the marking scale to the standards acceptable in foreign universities. I'm not asking that even the lowest rankers be given a first class degree but atleast get the ratios right.
Similarly Atul's elective used to get scrapped, even SKB's elective, Chengappa Sir's elective, Shouvik's, Vaneeta, Kavita, Soumya Sahin, Faisal's elective got scrapped in last 2 years.
What is common amongst all these- demand hardwork for the subject and mark as per merit.
The same students then struggle basics of subjects in professional life despite scoring 80+ in college.
Overall this scoring marks is "well known" to be totally divorced from learning (and for good reasons); and ordinary prudence dictates that you avoid risk.
Now enter good electives like Lovely Ma'am, SKG's etc. If you take them, you are sure to see your GPA and Rank dip. For your competitors ( rent seekers) will for sure go for these 'sub-standard' electives where marks are freely distributed as the holy man from Nazareth distributed bread. Bad profs give high marks to refined rent seeks. (good profs make you work.) (and remember that throughout the compulsory subject marks 5/6 times are already 'gamed' entities.) Barring Tri, KCo etc., most firms rely almost exclusively on GPA for the very round of screening - dayz and internship. Ofcourse again this GPA is nothing but a stack of proof how how well you game the system - people w high GPA just know how to do it well. You can choose to opt out of this game, get good electives - but you risk losing - worse, others will keep playing and winning. Zero sum, infact. (System rewards rent seekers and punishes people who wish to learn.)
Ofcourse, this is goddam despicable. 'Somebody' wanted to be different and focus really on learning. But NUJS and the free market punished 'everybody' who did it. These 5/6 profs highly reward bullshit and have little care for true learning. They give marks to 'anybody' who can do a set of few tasks and pander to their ego (an important move in the game, you see.) Fighting w the system is useless when 'somebody' has a loan to pay. And the flame for learning extinguishes when 'everybody' realises that sucking up the these 5/6 is really needed for the high GPA otherwise " almost all" HRs will throw 'your' CV in a bin.
Anybody who wonders who the 1/6 profs are, here's a simple test: they read the projects you submit carefully, so you start working on it atleast 7-10 days in advance.