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Professional courses: "improvement marks will not be considered"

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High Court dismisses petitions from Plus Two students

CHENNAI: The Madras High Court has declined to direct the Government to consider Plus Two improvement examination marks for admission to professional courses this year.

Justice Prabha Sridevan dismissed a batch of writ petitions from Plus Two students, who had written improvement examination in March 2005, seeking a direction to the Selection Committee for Medical Education to consider their improved marks.

She, however, said the authorities should permit the students to amend their applications and to indicate the marks they had obtained in the first attempt. On this ground their applications should not be rejected, she said.

The Tamil Nadu Government abolished the improvement examination scheme for the academic year 2005-06.

Condition in prospectus

In their petitions, the students said that last year the High Court protected the interests of improvement candidates who had wanted for more than one academic year for joining medical courses.

They assailed a condition in the MBBS/BDS prospectus that improvement marks in Plus Two examination of any year would not be taken into account. According to them, the condition was contrary to High Court orders and would effectively take away the rights vested in them.

Denying the submissions, the Medical Education Secretary stated that once that abolition of the scheme was upheld there could be no "further indulgence to carry this over to future period." The High Court had made it clear that persons who had written the improvement examination would be permitted to be considered for MBBS/BDS selection for one year alone.

From the year 2006-07 onwards, it was held that the improvement examination need not be held unless the Government restored the scheme, he pointed out.

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