HC dismisses students’ plea for grace marks
MADURAI, MAY 18, 2019 00:00 IST
Says their complaint has come late
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed petitions of three postgraduate students of engineering for grace marks for a question which they claimed was out of syllabus.
A.G.S. Emmanuel, A. Allwin Pon Suthers and Kanmani Mathana were pursuing Masters from the Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli.
The petitioners could not clear their theory paper, ‘Integrated Mechanical Design’. The students contended that a question which carried 54 marks was ‘out of syllabus’ and sought additional marks for the question.
Justice G.R. Swaminathan, who took the help of academicians in the case, was told that the question was very much from the syllabus. But the students who were present in the court disagreed with the contention.
The court took cognisance of the fact that the students had challenged the question paper only after the results were out, though they claimed that the issue was raised with the Head of Department.
As many as 315 students across the State took the examination, out of which 90 successfully cleared the test. Apart from the three students, no other student or department complained about the question, the court said.
Such a complaint should have been raised before a pre-evaluation board meeting. If no complaint was made before the meeting, it could not be examined later. The petitioners have not raised the complaint on time.
Ignorance of the procedure is no excuse. The petitioners are guilty of laches, the court said and dismissed the petition.
MADURAI, MAY 18, 2019 00:00 IST
Says their complaint has come late
The Madurai Bench of the Madras High Court dismissed petitions of three postgraduate students of engineering for grace marks for a question which they claimed was out of syllabus.
A.G.S. Emmanuel, A. Allwin Pon Suthers and Kanmani Mathana were pursuing Masters from the Government College of Engineering, Tirunelveli.
The petitioners could not clear their theory paper, ‘Integrated Mechanical Design’. The students contended that a question which carried 54 marks was ‘out of syllabus’ and sought additional marks for the question.
Justice G.R. Swaminathan, who took the help of academicians in the case, was told that the question was very much from the syllabus. But the students who were present in the court disagreed with the contention.
The court took cognisance of the fact that the students had challenged the question paper only after the results were out, though they claimed that the issue was raised with the Head of Department.
As many as 315 students across the State took the examination, out of which 90 successfully cleared the test. Apart from the three students, no other student or department complained about the question, the court said.
Such a complaint should have been raised before a pre-evaluation board meeting. If no complaint was made before the meeting, it could not be examined later. The petitioners have not raised the complaint on time.
Ignorance of the procedure is no excuse. The petitioners are guilty of laches, the court said and dismissed the petition.
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