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Discuss disagreement on TNPCEE, court tells counsel

By Our Staff Reporter

CHENNAI, JUNE 3. The Madras High Court, hearing around 200 writ petitions from students who wrote the recent Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examinations, has asked counsel for Anna University to discuss with the candidates' advocates the `points of disagreement' on the issue of 22 ambiguous questions.

While the bottom line of the arguments by students' counsel was that every question should be valued and that marks be awarded one way or the other, the university said it redistributed the marks of deleted (ambiguous) questions among other questions to maintain the mandatory ratio of 2:1 between the academic and entrance examination marks.

Senior advocate K.M. Vijayan said the present litigation was not only about the deleted questions but it also pertained to some `disputed questions' as well. The Biology paper alone had five `disputed questions' - two were deleted by the university as out of consideration, one had a wrong answer key, one was out of portion and two had dual answers.

Justice Prafulla Kumar Misra has sought the university's response to the petitioners' claim that all these five questions should be `reconsidered.' He also wanted the university to make clear its stance on awarding marks to all correct answers — even if one question had more than one correct answer — instead of deleting the questions and redistributing their marks among other questions.

Counsel for the petitioners maintained that the court was only trying to ascertain whether there was any prima facie case in favour of the students and whether it should constitute an expert committee to come out with an acceptable solution.

However, senior counsel for the university, G. Masilamani, said forming one more expert committee might not serve the purpose, as there was no guarantee that the finding of the new panel would not be challenged.

The court, which mooted a discussion between rival counsel and sought the university's response to awarding marks to all correct answers, had to adjourn the matter to Monday after it was informed of the death of justice A. Packiaraj.

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