High Court upholds RGUHS ordinance governing CAP for MBBS theory paper assessment
Bengaluru: The Karnataka High Court recently upheld the ordinance issued by the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) governing the Central Assessment Program (CAP) for theory paper assessment of MBBS course, which would be applied to the exams being conducted on or after February 1, 2021.
CAP refers to a 'general valuation' done by any two eligible internal examiners from affiliated institutes of RGUHS. Along with that, a 'Deviation Valuation' was also provided where the difference in an award of total marks between two examiners in the general valuation is 15% or more of the maximum marks prescribed for the paper. Under those situations, it would be referred to any other eligible three internal examiners for evaluation.
Two first year MBBS students had challenged the ordinance stating that it resulted in gross discrimination between the nature of evaluation, consideration of marks and also yardstick which is proposed to be adopted for ironing out the differences in evaluation. They claimed that they would have automatically passed as they were eligible under the Regulations of Graduate Medical Education, 1997 which provides a grace marks of up to five, reports the Times of India. They argued that it violated article 14 of the constitution.
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