HYDERABAD: Confusion among the OU authorities resulted in foreign students losing the first paper of the MBA exams that started on Saturday. Foreign students, numbering about 90, claimed that they were asked to take the examination at the OU College of Commerce and Business Management by the principal. While they were taking the exam some students forced them out as a part of the boycott call demanding separate Telangana. When the foreign students approached the authorities they were told that the examination was to be taken at the separate centre for foreign students in Amberpet. “Our students were misled and they have lost the first paper. Authorities should be immediately conduct the test against for them,” said Koshan Wijdan, president of OU Foreign Students Association. He asked the students to write the remaining exams at the separate centre and said the association would take up the issue with the authorities. Officials said over 60 per cent students appeared for the MBA exam in the city while attendance was about 14 per cent in the districts.

However, the exam was boycotted in the campus colleges. Meanwhile, the strike of OU law students continued and they reiterated their demand that the vice-principal be suspended or at least transferred.