He completed his first year in May 2013 and wrote the second year exams in November 2014, which he could clear only in November 2016. In the third year exams, the petitioner had to clear three subjects — comunity medicine, ENT and ophthalmology. In May 2016, he failed in all the three subjects and in November 2017, he was able to clear the ophthalmology paper alone. He approached the court claiming that he would have cleared the community medicine paper too if the institute had added the improved internal assessment marks, scored by him in the supplementary exam conducted in November 2017, instead of adding the regular internal assessment marks in May 2017 to his overall marks in the subject. Bharathi, counsel for the Controller of Examinations of Pondicherry University, told the court that requests to add improved internal assessment marks could be considered only on one occasion for each student and such a request could not be entertained habitually.

Source: The Hindu April 12, 2018 19:18 UTC