Must a request to rearrange the registered subject sequence after declaration of results be considered by CBSE with reference to individual records?
Coram: Justice L.Victoria Gowri
A request to rearrange the registered subject sequence after results must be considered by CBSE with reference to individual records.
Yes. A request to rearrange the registered subject sequence after results must be considered by CBSE with reference to individual records. A direction to rearrange the first five subjects and the sixth would change the classification in CBSE's registration records after results were declared. The signed registration records could not be disregarded, nor declared void without individual examination, and a general letter from the school would not do given the students' differing subject combinations; each student required an individual statement of the subjects registered, studied and passed and the error acknowledged.
Constitution of India — Art.226 — Education — CBSE Senior School Certificate Examination — Subject sequence in the List of Candidates — Sixth (additional) subject — Academic standard — Correction after declaration of results — Undergraduate admission — Error acknowledged by the school — Education — CBSE — Sixth subject — Academic standard of the subject — Held: A recognised CBSE academic subject studied, examined and passed does not become a subject of a lesser academic standard merely because it appears in the sixth position in the List of Candidates or mark statement; its treatment for eligibility and ranking in a particular admission process is governed by the rules of that process. (¶21, 31) Education — Undergraduate admission — Declaration of subjects passed — Admission brochure — Held further: Where an applicable brochure expressly excludes an additional subject from eligibility or ranking, a declaration that the student studied and passed that subject cannot by itself amend the brochure or compel admission. P.C. Akash v. Registrar, Tamil Nadu Agricultural University, distinguished on the voluntary-selection finding. (¶26, 27) Education — CBSE record — Rearrangement of registered subject sequence after results — Held further: A request to rearrange the first five subjects and the sixth after declaration of results must be considered by CBSE with reference to the individual records and its applicable rules; the Court directed individual statements from the school and a time-bound decision by CBSE. Writ petition disposed of. (¶29, 30, 31, 33)
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