SET candidate challenges the notification of the SET Secretary of the Bharathiyar University

Updated on: Wednesday, February 20, 2013

A candidate of the State Eligibility Test (for the post of lecturers) has sought to quash the notification of the SET Secretary of the Bharathiyar University, which said that final qualifying criteria for elegibility for lectuership would be decided by the Moderation Committee, which had fixed a cut off mark, apart from minimum pass mark fixed by UGC.

Sophia submitted that as per UGC norms, the students to be eligible to become lecturers should have 55 marks in the university examination. Besides the student should have cleared the SET examination.

For clearing the SET, according to UGC, the student should have scored minimum 40 marks each (40 per cent) in the first and second paper and 75 marks or 50 per cent in the third paper for the general category. If a candidate had scored 40 marks or 40 per cent each in the first two papers and 75 marks or 50 Per cent in the third papers she was automatically eligible tobe appointed as teacher.

She said she had scored 52,56 and 78 marks, which was over and above the minimum marks and totally she had scored 186 in all the papers. But the SET Secretary had fixed a mimimum cut off mark of 190 for the general category. The overall minimum total marks had not been fixed as a norm by the UGC. The UGC did not say that the candidate should come within the UGC's qualifying criteria of seven per cent of the candidates in the respective subjects, she said.

Justice R S Ramanathan issued notice to the SET secretary, Coimbatore, seeking his explanation and posted the case on Feb 27.

SET candidate challenges the notification of the SET Secretary of the Bharathiyar University

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