Supreme court junks MBBS students' plea seeking re-evaluation

New Delhi: The Supreme Court of India has dismissed a special leave petition filed by medical students of Goa Medical College who were seeking re-evaluation of their answer books for the Third Professional (Final Year) MBBS Part II supplementary examination.

The plea challenged the Goa High Court order, which refused to direct the reevaluation of their answer books, observing that the Goa University followed norms by not permitting them to make any application for reevaluation.

The HC held that when the students appeared for the examination, the bar imposed under the Ordinance OA-5 for revaluation operated in full force, not permitting them to make any application for re-evaluation.

Refusing to interfere with the High Court’s decision, the top court said, "We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment and order passed by the High Court; hence, the special leave petition is dismissed."

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As per a latest media report by TOI, the case concerns the students who had appeared for the supplementary examination held in April–May last year and were declared failed. They approached the Bombay High Court at Goa seeking directions to Goa University to allow re-evaluation of their answer sheets.

Alternatively, the students requested the court to order a re-examination of the answer sheets of all students who had failed in that exam.

The students argued that they were only given the chance to apply for verification of marks and not re-evaluation. After the verification was carried out, all of them were again shown to have failed, and there were no changes in their marks.

However, the High Court in its final order on Dec 4, 2025, dismissed the plea. The court noted that there was an absence of a provision for re-evaluation and a specific bar mentioned in the ordinances for re-evaluation.

The High Court held that when the students appeared for the examination, the ordinance prohibiting re-evaluation was fully in force. Therefore, Goa University had not committed any error in refusing to accept applications for re-evaluation.

With the Supreme Court now declining to interfere, the High Court’s order stands, and the students will not be granted re-evaluation of their answer sheets.

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