In a general body meeting organised on 18th Jan 2012, Lucknow University Teachers' Association (LUTA) strongly destined the university's proposal to introduce OMR system of examinations for first and second year undergraduate students and first year post-graduate students.

Criticising the act, LUTA president, Anil Shukla said, "The Right to Information (RTI) has forced university officials to find an option way to conduct examinations. As an alternative, Lucknow University should have learnt from the faults and should have come up with a translucent and precise evaluation process. Changing examination procedure will not sort out the difficulty."

Pointing out the biggest demerit of the objective type examination paper, educationist Prof Mohd Muzammil said, "Testing of language and the power to argue in the students will die once they are given objective type question paper to solve." He added that the objective type paper pattern will be a challenge for the teachers more than the students. "The teachers will now take three hours making the paper and students will finish it in five minutes," said Muzammil.

Teachers pointed out that the OMR pattern will sweep out the descriptive examination pattern. "Objective type examination will help in collapsing the higher education in the state. A large number of university students appear for civil service examinations which is descriptive. If university brings the objective type pattern, clearing out those examinations will be next to possible," he said.

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Teachers pointed out that the OMR pattern will sweep out the descriptive examination pattern.