JOIN USA school affiliated to CBSE has approached the High Court seeking directions to the state government and the Department of Pre-University Education (DPUE) to consider only the marks scored in the CET by second year PU students for giving the ranks and not to consider the marks obtained by them second PU exams.
In a petition, Bhuvanjyothi Education Trust, a CBSE school in Dakshina Kannada district, has said that though the minister for primary and secondary education has said that only second year PU chemistry paper had leaked twice, he has orally accepted that there might be leakage of all the question papers of the science stream. Newspapers have also published that all the six question papers might have been leaked, the school claimed in the petition.
Not just that, due to the irregularities committed by the government and the DPUE, it has been decided to grant grace marks to students who have attempted to answer to questions which were out of syllabus in Mathematics paper. Seven questions for 21 marks were out of syllabus and the DPUE has decided to give 21 grace marks, the petitioner claimed.
The decision to grant grace marks will alter the CET rankings of PU students and the CBSE syllabus. The CBSE syllabus students will have to face the problem of competing with the students of state syllabus who would get grace marks. The CBSE students have to pay the penalty for the irresponsible act of the state government. This conduct will certainly demotivate the students of CBSE and ICSE, the school has argued.
The decision of the government take into consideration 50% of marks obtained by the students in PUC examinations for CET ranking will affect the CBSE students. The Karnataka Examinations Authority (KEA) has fixed the criteria for determination of rank for admission to first year MBBS/BDS only on the basis of marks obtained in Physics, Chemistry and Biology subjects in CET. For engineering and other courses, it has fixed eligibility criteria by taking marks in equal proportions in qualifying examination and CET, the school said.
The petitioner said that the government is not justified in fixing the criteria for determining of rank for the courses such as Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Unani, Naturopathy and Yoga, Engineering, Technology and other courses on the basis of equal proportion in qualif-ying examination and CET examination.