MAH MBA CET 2023: Plea of 154 Students Against Normalisation Scrapped by Bombay HC

New Delhi:  In a recent development, the High Court (HC) has dismissed the plea filed by 154 students challenging the process of normalization of marks in the Maharashtra government's Common Entrance Test (CET) for MBA admissions. 

A division bench of Justices Gautam Patel and Neela Gokhale termed the plea as “without substance”, and said that out of more than one lakh students who appeared for the examination, only the petitioners have raised objections.

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According to the court, "The concerns raised by the 154 petitioners cannot be seen as representative of the more than one lakh students who took the exams. It is noteworthy that all the grievances mentioned in the petition emerged only after the completion of the exams and the announcement of the results."

The court further mentioned that it was refraining from imposing costs only because the petitioners are students. The petitioners have sought for the CET to be conducted again, bench noted. 

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“No thought is spared to hundreds of thousands of others who gave the entrance exam. The petitioners do not represent all candidates, yet we are expected that all those persons suffer at the instance of present disgruntled persons without being given the slightest opportunity of being heard to the others,” the court said.

The order was issued in response to a plea filed by the 154 students who raised objections to the mark normalization process implemented by the CET cell following after it conducted a re-test for some students.

According to the petitioners’ advocates S B Talekar and Madhavi Ayyappan the postgraduate management admission process in the state is “vitiated due to lack of transparency and fairness in the manner of conducting”.

According to the plea, the MAH CET MBA exam was conducted in four slots with over 30,000 students each on March 25 and 26, 2023. However, students who appeared in the first slot encountered some technical glitches and few of them were given additional time.

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Advocate General Birendra Saraf, who appeared on behalf of the state government opposed the plea and submitted that the schedule for the test was declared in February and more than 1 lakh candidates were divided into four batches with separate exams to be conducted for them.

A total of 11,562 students appeared for the re-examination on May 6, of which more than 70 were the present petitioners. There was a separate percentile score for the batch concerned, and they were considered a “separate pool”, he said.

Talekar claimed that there had to be an equal number of students in every batch. So, it clearly states that the normalization process was flawed.

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But the bench in its order noted that “nothing was shown to indicate the normalization process was unfair”. 

“For security reasons, each slot is given a different question paper. Not all papers are on the same level of difficulty hence, it necessitates the normalization process,” the court said.

In general, courts in India don’t interfere in matters related to public exams and admission processes and respect the autonomy of the authorities. 

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