CBSE students, schools to take legal action against Kerala government's decision on rank list

Liberal award of marks has been noticed in the evaluation criteria adopted by the state to release Kerala Plus Two Results 2021, the National Council of CBSE Schools, representing school managements across the country believe.

CBSE students and school management are planning to take legal help in the wake of the Kerala government deciding to continue with the current method of considering marks of select subjects of the Plus-II examination for preparing the engineering entrance rank list. The students are demanding that the government must consider only the marks of the entrance exam for admission to all undergraduate courses. Over 1 lakh signatures of students have already been collected as part of a campaign in CBSE schools in the state.

She further suggested that in this case, the council and students would move the court on the matter. In a similar case, the High Court had recently restrained the Commissioner for Entrance Examinations (CEE) from publishing the rank list for admission to professional courses without further orders from the court

The council had already written to Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan demanding that students must be given admission to all undergraduate courses only through a common entrance test, similar to the admission process of professional courses. The council has proposed to the Centre that a state-level entrance exam for admission to all undergraduate courses should be held.

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