Re-evaluation plea rejected

Updated on: Tuesday, June 14, 2011

Delhi high court has rejected a plea for re-evaluation of answer sheets of a candidate who took the All India pre-medical/dental examination.

"If courts start passing orders against specific rules promulgated by CBSE based on sympathy for crestfallen students, it will certainly lead to setting a malefic precedent," Justice Kailash Gambhir said while dismissing the plea of one Dilara Parvin Ali.

Ali had sought re-evaluation of answer scripts by CBSE. She had further sought that CBSE declare she had qualified for the final examination as there was a mistake in correcting her answersheets. The petitioner claimed she hailed from a small city in West Bengal and had full confidence she must have done well in the examination.

In her plea, she said there was a possibility of some "technical snag" in the machine that read the answer-sheets, contending it was her right to at least demand re-evaluation, as a student is expected to know her copy has been objectively checked.

On its part, CBSE opposed any relief pointing out it had specific rules stipulating no queries for re-evaluation will be entertained.

The Board said almost 10 lakh students appeared for the examination and the mechanism to check answersheets has been in place since 1987 and was flawless. It told the high court that before the marks are made public, every answersheet is checked by different agencies to ensure there was no mistake.

"No doubt, students having good academic records sometimes feel their answersheets have not been properly evaluated but they themselves can't be the deciding authority as it has to be done by experts," the court said while concluding that the CBSE was right in not agreeing to any re-evaluation plea.

"Having a good academic record throughout doesn't guarantee the passing of competitive examinations as careers of many are made and marred
by atomic difference in marks secured in entrance examinations," the high court said.

Times of India

Re-evaluation plea rejected

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