India, Aug. 4 -- Days after questions were raised over the University of Mumbai's Master of Management Studies (MMS) results, the Centre for Distance and Online Education (CDOE) has come under scrutiny after its first-year BCom and BA results showed low pass percentages - 17.97% and 20.68%, respectively.

According to the results, only 457 of the 2,543 students who took the first semester BCom examination passed. In the BA programme, only 460 of the 2,224 students cleared the examination. The others have been declared "unsuccessful".

The issue was raised by university senate members, who asked whether the poor results were due to problems in teaching, evaluation or the examination system. They demanded that the university conduct a detai...