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No normalisation of marks for 5-year law course

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Government informs High Court Clause stipulating normalisation was included in prospectus inadvertently

CHENNAI: Selection of candidates for the five-year law courses will not be based on normalisation of marks, the Tamil Nadu Government informed the Madras High Court on Wednesday.

The submission was made by Additional Advocate-General N. Kannadasan, when a writ petition challenging the abolition of common entrance test for admissions in law colleges and introduction of normalisation scheme only for the five-year stream, came up for hearing before Justice P. Jyothimani.

Mr. Kannadasan said a clause stipulating normalisation scheme for law admissions was included in this year's prospectus inadvertently and would not be enforced. "The clause is not strictly in terms of the Government order concerned."

Adjourned to June 11

On his request, the matter was adjourned to June 11 for further proceedings.

The petitioner, Bagyaraj of Pudukuppam near here, said normalisation was not a prudent method for law admissions. Aspirants of law courses did not have any age restrictions and hailed from varied backgrounds, including open university and distance education streams.

Normalisation may work in the case of medical and engineering admissions as candidates had common subjects. In the case of law courses, it would be unfair to treat regular students along with their counterparts from open university and distance education streams.

According to him, a competitive common entrance test was inevitable for uniform evaluation of candidates aspiring for admission to law courses. He described the April 19 Government Order abolishing common entrance test as erroneous and misleading. The authorities concerned must be restrained from proceeding with the selection of candidates based on the new procedure.

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