Re-evaluate medicine PGET papers: Karnataka HC

The Karnataka high court on Monday ordered re-evaluation of the answer sheets of 8,000 students who had appeared for the post-graduate entrance test (PGET) in medicine conducted in February.

Justice Nagmohan Das gave the direction while listening to a petition filed by three students, including Dr Rahul S Patil of Koramangala, who had appeared for the entrance test (for admission to MD and MS courses).

The petitioners contended that the key answers to 18 questions were wrong. The court directed the Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences to re-evaluate the answer sheets of the post-graduate entrance test within a week.

The entrance test was held throughout Karnataka on February 7. The results were announced on February 19.

On March 12, while hearing the petition, the high court had directed that an expert committee be constituted to check if the evaluation of these 18 questions were done correctly.
The committee submitted its report to Justice Nagmohan Das on Monday.

The report said some of the 18 questions were evaluated correctly while some others were evaluated wrongly. After going through the report, the court ordered that the PGET answer sheets of the about 8,000 students who had appeared for the entrance test be evaluated again to see if the marks for the 18 questions had been awarded properly.