Telangana: KNRUHS goofs up with PG question paper, students shocked

University repeats two-year-old Radiodiagnosis Paper-III supplementary exam question paper for regular examination held on January 16

Hyderabad: In what appears to be an embarrassing goof up, the Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences (KNRUHS), Warangal, repeated the PG supplementary exam question paper, from two years ago, for the recently conducted regular theory examination.

The question paper distributed to students during the MD/MS Degree Examinations (January 2025) for Radiodiagnosis Paper-III (principles and practice of Radiodiagnosis) on January 16 was already used in the supplementary examinations held in October/November 2023.

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The students were perplexed to see the question paper being repeated. The issue came to light on Saturday after some of the students pointed out the faux pas. Interestingly, except for the year and name of the examination, everything, including the paper code, questions and their numbering, remained the same, which raised serious concerns over the university’s question paper preparation process.

This was not the first time that such a goof up was committed by the university. Earlier, it reportedly gave out-of-syllabus questions in the Biochemistry Paper-I and Paper-II in the first-year annual MBBS examination.

As per the rulebook, question papers prepared by the experts are scrutinised by the examination controller and subject moderator before commencement of the examination. Later, one paper is sent online to all medical colleges 30 minutes prior to the commencement of the examination.

It is learnt that the university failed to scrutinise the question paper before circulating it to colleges. It is also learnt that the varsity will initiate an inquiry into the issue by constituting a committee and initiate appropriate action, if students complain.

Efforts to reach Vice Chancellor Dr B Karunakar Reddy for a comment proved futile.