The marks of over a thousand Plus-2 students who sought revaluation hoping for a better score have reduced, shocking them and their parents.
Out of about a lakh students who had applied for copies of answer sheets, 5,600 had sought revaluation. It is reliably learnt that there are changes in the final score of about 4,000 students. While the score of a sizable chunk of students had reportedly reduced up to 10 marks, others have got up to 14 marks more.
On Thursday, parents and students thronged the camp office of the revaluation centre in Egmore here and lodged protest. Students claimed that their marks had been reduced even without them applying for revaluation or remitting the requisite fee for it.
A student of a school in Mogapair, Nithisha who secured 1,177 marks and had a cut off mark of 197.25 for MBBS told Express that her Biology score had reduced by 1 mark although she had not remitted the fee for revaluation. Now, her cut-off is 196.75, down by 300 ranks.
“Earlier, I had a chance of getting a seat in a government medical college. Now, for a seat in a private medical college, I have to face tough competition. My parents are not in a position to pay the fee (for government seats in private colleges) which could be around `5 lakh,” she rued. Her parents wondered how the Govt Department of Examinations could revalue their daugther’s paper when the fee for it was not paid.
Similarly, for T Vijayakumar, son of a paper vendor, the score in Biology has reduced to 185 from 191 pushing his cut off mark further down. He also claimed that revaluation was done even without him applying for the same. “We did not intend applying for revaluation. That is why we did not pay fee. We submitted the application for revaluation online only to get the bank challan copy, so that we could use it if needed,” a student said. Some of the parents claimed that the confusion could have been avoided had they been given more time to apply for revaluation, for downloading copies of answer sheets and for submission of revaluation applications online.
“Whenever we tried to download the answer sheet, the (government) website collapsed several times,” Ilangovan, a parent said.
Examinations Department officials said that the representation of students that they should be allowed to retain their original marks would be considered.