As engineering students at the Faculty of Technology University of Delhi our academic progress must be evaluated through technical proficiency hands on projects and real world problem solving rather than rigid classroom headcounts.

We submit this petition to completely abolish the practice of awarding academic marks for attendance in theory and tutorial classes. Under the current Undergraduate Curriculum Framework aligned with NEP 2020 the university mandates a 67% attendance threshold to sit for exams which we fully support as a reasonable baseline for participation. However dedicating 20% of our Internal Assessment marks to physical attendance is restrictive and punitive.

The current rules enforce a rigid slab system where we must maintain 85% attendance just to secure the full 5 or 6 attendance marks. Dropping below this threshold due to illness an emergency or participation in external technical workshops instantly docks our Internal Assessment scores. This artificially reduces our overall CGPA creating massive roadblocks for our campus placements internships and higher education prospects.

Notably practical classes carry no marks for attendance and are evaluated entirely on continuous performance viva voce and execution. We believe theory and tutorial classes should follow this exact same logical standard. Mastering technology requires dedicated time for independent innovation and penalizing students for missing a lecture despite mastering the coursework goes against the core vision of outcome based education.

We urge the administration to amend the Internal Assessment structure and remove attendance as a graded component. Our academic scores should measure our genuine competence and engineering knowledge not our daily attendance record.