HC reserves order on medicine exams
SagarKumar.Mutha@timesgroup.com
Hyderabad: 16.11.2021
Justice B Vijaysen Reddy of the Telangana high court on Monday reserved his orders in a batch of petitions filed by MBBS students and their parents challenging the alleged faulty pattern of their first year annual examinations and seeking a second supplementary examination to save them from losing another year.
The students have already lost almost a year due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The students have been complaining about the missing multiple choice questions (MCQs) section in their exams. National Medical Commission (NMC) regulations and guidelines say that 20 per cent of the question paper must contain MCQs whereas the Kaloji health university has completely eliminated this section, they said.
When the court questioned the varsity whether it was willing to conduct a second supplementary exam as a one-time measure because the pandemic crippled all spheres of life, the university said it had to obtain NMC permission. However, the NMC counsel said that it was for the university to explain whether it deviated from the pattern fixed by the NMC. The judge reserved his orders.
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