HC orders double evaluation of papers
Special Correspondent the hindu
CHENNAI, May 15, 2018 00:00 IST
MBBS student moves court on biochemistry theory paper
The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University cannot refuse to take one out of two papers in a subject for double evaluation, when the aggregate of the marks scored by a medical student in the two papers are considered for deciding the marks scored in that particular subject, the Madras High Court has ruled.
Justice S. Vaidyanathan held so while allowing a writ petition filed by a MBBS student challenging the university’s decision to double evaluate only his biochemistry theory paper-I in which he had scored 15 out of 50 marks and not theory paper-II in which he touched 50% by scoring 25 out of 50.
Two resolutions
The university counsel had brought it to the notice of the court that the governing council had passed two resolutions — one in 2014 and the other in 2015, for reintroducing double evaluation system instead of revaluation of answer scripts if a candidate had scored below the zone of grace marks in a subject. In so far as the petitioner’s case was concerned, the judge said the university could have been right in refusing to double evaluate one of the two theory papers in biochemistry if it had been following the practice of treating the marks scored in each of those two papers separately without reckoning aggregate marks. “As long as the aggregate total marks of two papers are taken into consideration for declaring the result of the petitioner, both the theory papers will have to be subjected to double evaluation.”
Special Correspondent the hindu
CHENNAI, May 15, 2018 00:00 IST
MBBS student moves court on biochemistry theory paper
The Tamil Nadu Dr. MGR Medical University cannot refuse to take one out of two papers in a subject for double evaluation, when the aggregate of the marks scored by a medical student in the two papers are considered for deciding the marks scored in that particular subject, the Madras High Court has ruled.
Justice S. Vaidyanathan held so while allowing a writ petition filed by a MBBS student challenging the university’s decision to double evaluate only his biochemistry theory paper-I in which he had scored 15 out of 50 marks and not theory paper-II in which he touched 50% by scoring 25 out of 50.
Two resolutions
The university counsel had brought it to the notice of the court that the governing council had passed two resolutions — one in 2014 and the other in 2015, for reintroducing double evaluation system instead of revaluation of answer scripts if a candidate had scored below the zone of grace marks in a subject. In so far as the petitioner’s case was concerned, the judge said the university could have been right in refusing to double evaluate one of the two theory papers in biochemistry if it had been following the practice of treating the marks scored in each of those two papers separately without reckoning aggregate marks. “As long as the aggregate total marks of two papers are taken into consideration for declaring the result of the petitioner, both the theory papers will have to be subjected to double evaluation.”
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