Date:31/05/2007 URL: http://www.thehindu.com/2007/05/31/stories/2007053100130400.htm

Karnataka - Bangalore

Redress student's grouse on wrong answers, CET Cell told

Staff Reporter

BANGALORE: The Karnataka High Court on Wednesday directed the Common Entrance Test (CET) Cell to consider a representation by a student stating that there were four wrong key answers in the CET question paper on biology.

The court passed this order on a petition by Sanjana P. Mangalore who was aggrieved by the action of the cell in not granting marks to certain questions even though she had answered them correctly. A student of St. Agnes College, Sanjana said she had completed pre-university in 2007 in physics, chemistry, mathematics and biology, securing 92 per cent in the core subjects.

On May 9, 2007, she appeared for the CET and on May 15, the cell published key answers on its website and invited objections.

Objections

Sanjana said she and several others had sent their objections regarding four key answers which she said were wrong. She said though she had sent a representation to the cell, bringing to its notice the correct key answers, it had so far not been acknowledged. Her CET rank is 1995, and she secured 113 out of 180 marks.

She said her marks would improve if the cell accepted her representation and corrected the wrong key answers and urged the court to stay the CET counselling.

Justice Rammohan Reddy disposed of the petition directing the cell to consider her case by June 4.