Consider supplementary exams for 1st year MBBS students: HC

Hyderabad: Telangana High Court directed the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences to consider the possibility of conducting a second supplementary exam for the first year MBBS students keeping in view the pandemic situation. This direction came from Justice B Vijayasen Reddy on Friday while he was dealing with a writ petition challenging the […]

Hyderabad: Telangana High Court directed the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences to consider the possibility of conducting a second supplementary exam for the first year MBBS students keeping in view the pandemic situation.

This direction came from Justice B Vijayasen Reddy on Friday while he was dealing with a writ petition challenging the pattern of examination for MBBS students. Thirty-one candidates from various colleges filed the writ complaining of gross violation of the Competency-Based Undergraduate Curriculum (CBA) prescribed by the 2019 Statutory Regulations Assessment Method introduced by the Medical Council of India. The petitioners submitted that in the course there is a three-stage assessment- formative assessment, internal assessment by the college and summative assessment by the University.

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The University has violated the pattern of examination in the summative assessment in not including multiple-choice questions according to the new regulations, the petitioners said. They pointed out that the students could not answer the theoretical questions which took a long time to answer in the limited time leading to 33 per cent of the total students’ failure in first-year exams. The government and University said, the inclusion of multiple-choice questions was an option and not mandatory. The government contended that in the last four decades students were subjected to a written exam only. The judge then directed the University to respond by Monday on the suggestion of considering the chance of a second supplementary exam.

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