High Court rejects student’s repeated revaluation attempts
Complainant was convinced she would get higher marks
This is one student who wouldn’t give up or take ‘no’ for an answer. Convinced she had actually scored a higher percentage than the one ascribed to her on the answer script, in an engineering subject, she made no less than four tries to better her score by having the paper checked time and again. She didn’t succeed in getting the fifty marks she thought she had scored, so she kept trying.
After the revaluation of the answer script at the fourth consecutive attempt yielded just ‘8’ additional marks, the determined student requested the college principal to direct the varsity to revalue her paper once again as she was confident of securing more than 50 marks totally!
However, the varsity had to finally reject her repeated plea on the ground that there was no provision for revaluation of already revalued answer scripts.
Finally this 21-year-old student of AMC Engineering College approached the high court, seeking a directive from the latter for yet another revaluation of her already-repeatedly-revalued answer script as she was confident that she has actually got higher marks than the revalued result!
After a single bench of the HC rejected her petition, undeterred, she appealed to the division bench. The student in her fourth attempt had obtained 27 marks and later after revaluation, was given an additional 8 marks, making it 35 marks. But she sought further revaluation as she expected more than 50.
The grievance of the student is that she appeared for the II semester Exam in engineering mathematics for the first attempt during July 2012 where she secured 22 marks. She appeared again for the exam for the second attempt in April 2013, when she attained 35 marks. Not satisfied, she applied for revaluation after which her score still stood at 35.
She appeared again for the exam in the same subject in July 2013 for the third time, this time getting 25 marks. She applied for revaluation, in which she secured 26 marks in the subject after revaluation. She once again appeared for the exam in the subject for the fourth time during January 2014 in which she got 27 marks.
Not happy, she applied for revaluation and got 35.