mumbai in yet another faux pas the mumbai university recently repeated a question paper from may 2018 for students appearing for the first semester exam of masters of computer application mca for the statistics and probability paper that students appeared for on december 11 question paper code 59330 students were given exactly the same paper given for the same exam on may 23 2018 question paper code 38183 the questions throughout the paper were identical with an exception of the last question in the december 2019 paper the first question was repeated as the sixth question in the may 2018 paper question 1 and 6 were different teachers felt that there is a need for better checks at the earliest this definitely needs to be looked into and is a serious lapse in the system as there is no check in place to compare the question papers with previously appeared question papers the university should employ measures so that these goofups do not happen as it creates a bad impression about the university in the minds of the students and the entire public at large said a teacher professor subhash aathavle secretary of the mumbai university and college teachers association mucta said even if the academic committee has changed the members have remained the same we have pointed this out to the vice chancellor on several occasions but things dont seem to be improving at the university officials from the university said they would look into the matter and conduct an inquiryin november this year third semester mechanical engineering students who were taking the material technology paper found it to be the same as a question paper from just six months ago