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Tamil Nadu

Many lose marks, ranks in revaluation

By K. Ramachandran

CHENNAI, AUG. 3. The Madras High Court order directing Anna University to revalue answer papers in the Tamil Nadu Professional Courses Entrance Examinations 2004, with specific directions on five questions, has led to a change in marks for almost all candidates.

The change (for most of them a loss of score) was between 0.44 and 1.2 marks for each candidate, depending on the number of questions for which answers had to be changed as per the directions of the First Bench, enquiries with the university show.

It also had in impact on overall rankings, though there was no change for the top rankers in engineering. University authorities issued the new rank list based on the re-valued marks this evening. Enquiries with a cross-section of students showed that after the second revaluation, the candidates have got at least one question wrong. For some, two or three questions were wrong, accounting for the change of marks. This means a change in the overall rankings too. A student of K.K. Nagar here found that after today's revaluation, he lost more than one mark and found himself lower by 35 ranks. Another student of Adyar, incidentally the ward of an Anna University professor, lost 0.4 marks and eight ranks. A student in Erode, however, gained four ranks, though he lost 0.44 marks (which means the candidates above him lost more marks).

Make or break situation

Parents and students wonder about the impact of this change, especially in admissions to medicine. The Directorate of Medical Education is releasing the new rank list on Wednesday. In this branch, a change of even 20 ranks could mean a make or break situation for several careers. Administrators are apprehensive that a change of even 0.8 marks could mean a loss of an MBBS or BDS seat. "Now our fear is whether such a person would launch another round of litigation," said a retired medical professor. The fate of those who have already been allotted MBBS seats (among the freshers, as different from the improvement candidates) is another concern. There is every chance of the reallotment resulting in a candidate who was allotted to one college in the earlier round of counselling being given a seat in another college.

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