MADURAI: Granting an interim stay against the new system of allotting marks for students in medical colleges, the Madurai Bench of the High Court on Monday directed that the first year MBBS students be admitted for the second year.Twenty three students of government and private medical colleges, including Poorna Choundary, a student of Government Villupuram Medical College, who had sat for first year examination but were not granted passes, in their petitions before the Bench, had said that the Dr MGR Medical University had decided at its 39th Academic Council meeting to introduce a new system in allotting marks for students at examinations. There will be two papers for physiology, anatomy and bio-chemistry for first year MBBS examination. Students were required to score 50 per cent marks in each of the subjects for promotion to the second year. It was stipulated that if a student secures less than 50 marks in one subject and more than 50 marks in another paper, the cumulative marks being more than 100, that would not be taken into consideration for a pass, the Vice-Chancellor of the University had stated.Poorna Choundary averred that she had scored 59 marks in the first physiology paper and 42 marks in the second paper, which totalled 101 marks. But she was told that she had not passed the test and that she would have to write the papers again. She contended that this was incorrect and that a large number of students were affected by this system.
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