MUMBAI: About 15 candidates who took the JEE(Main) and are unhappy with their results have moved the Delhi High Court against the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE), which conducted the exam. JEE (Main) scores are used for admission to engineering colleges as well as to shortlist students who can take advance exam for admission to the Indian Institutes of Technology.
In their petition, students have complained against the CBSE for not providing the answer key to question sheets.
"The respondents provided no mechanism to redress the grievances of petitioners who have secured a much higher score according to the solutions of prominent coaching institutions, but will be deprived of sitting in the JEE (Advanced) Exam 2013 being conducted by the CBSE as well as getting admission in any reputed engineering college, only because of institutional arrogance of respondents who have chosen to either not respond to the pleas of mercy or replied in an arbitrary and mechanical manner with patent absence of application of mind," the petition read.
The students, who have come together, will be represented by senior advocate Chetan Sharma. They claimed there is not a single regional office to attend to the grievances of the petitioners and other candidates, and even the helpline service no longer works. When results of the JEE (Main) Exam 2013 were declared, there was a "sea of difference" between expected marks and declared result of the petitioners, claimed a parent.
"If the CBSE is sure that the answer key of the coaching classes is not reliable, let them release their own answer key. It is just not fair that students do not have a fair redressal forum," said the mother of a student who is also trying to seek an appointment with the CBSE officials in Delhi.
Another parent claimed to have sent mails to several authorities concerned with the conduct of the JEE (Main) exam, including the HRD ministry, but not a single person has replied.
In their petition, students have complained against the CBSE for not providing the answer key to question sheets.
"The respondents provided no mechanism to redress the grievances of petitioners who have secured a much higher score according to the solutions of prominent coaching institutions, but will be deprived of sitting in the JEE (Advanced) Exam 2013 being conducted by the CBSE as well as getting admission in any reputed engineering college, only because of institutional arrogance of respondents who have chosen to either not respond to the pleas of mercy or replied in an arbitrary and mechanical manner with patent absence of application of mind," the petition read.
The students, who have come together, will be represented by senior advocate Chetan Sharma. They claimed there is not a single regional office to attend to the grievances of the petitioners and other candidates, and even the helpline service no longer works. When results of the JEE (Main) Exam 2013 were declared, there was a "sea of difference" between expected marks and declared result of the petitioners, claimed a parent.
"If the CBSE is sure that the answer key of the coaching classes is not reliable, let them release their own answer key. It is just not fair that students do not have a fair redressal forum," said the mother of a student who is also trying to seek an appointment with the CBSE officials in Delhi.
Another parent claimed to have sent mails to several authorities concerned with the conduct of the JEE (Main) exam, including the HRD ministry, but not a single person has replied.
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