KCET 2022: Karnataka Government to Challenge HC Order On 50:50 Weightage for Repeaters

New Delhi: Karnataka Education Minister, Dr. CN Ashwath Narayan has announced that the state government will challenge the Karnataka High Court's order on awarding 50:50 weightage for repeater students of KCET 2022.

The government officials filed a petition at the High Court division bench on September 06, 2022 against the revised criteria. The step is taken to ensure that every student appearing for KCET 2022 will get justice and students' ranks will not be affected due to the revised rankings.

Informing about the situation, Dr. CN Ashwath Narayan stated that Karnataka Examination Authority (KEA) has revised the ranks of repeater students by including the PUC marks in KCET 2022. Due to this, the ranks of about 1.5 lakh fresher students will now face major changes.

The statement came after the court announced that the entire KCET 2022 revaluation process will be redone on the basis of revised criteria; which states that 50 percent marks of Pre University Certificate and 50 percent score of CET will be considered for repeaters students.

Earlier, due to the Covid-19 pandemic situation in the country, the government promoted all students of PUC without appearing for examinations. Due to this, the government decided to consider only a 100 percent CET score for all registered candidates.

Following the Karnataka High Court, the freshers have urged the authority to reconsider the CET rankings as the revised criteria are in repeaters' favor and will severely affect the rankings of fresher students. The students have submitted their requests through online petitions.

Aditya Biradar, a KCET fresher, said: “With regard to the decision taken by the high court which is favoring the repeaters, (the high court has told KEA to consider 50% board marks for the repeaters)”.

“Furthermore, considering that most of the state board students are from the state board and got their board marks without writing any sort of written exam it will significantly affect all the fresher's CET rankings”, he added.

In response to students’ requests, Justice Krishna Kumar stated that the KEA’s decision on considering a 100% KCET score for evaluating repeaters was ‘arbitrary’ and ‘discriminatory’.

Students further stated that the court's decision is unfair. By favoring 24,000 repeater students, the decision is doing an injustice to 1.7 lakh fresh students. They are now awaiting the decision of the Karnataka government on how the rankings will be considered going forward.

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