That duty is naturally assigned to the paper setter, who is required to supply to the University the companyrect answer to each question, called the key answer.
The difficulty arose because the key answers furnished by the paper setters turned out to be wrong.
Appeals by Special leave from the Judgment and Order dated the 24th February, 1983 of the Allahabad High Court Lucknow Bench in Civil Mis Writ Petition Nos.
4773 74/82, 4827, 5024, 5216, 5314, 5716 5717, 5724,5816, 5817,5818, 5819, 5821, 6029, 6067, 6069, 6102,6103,6389, of 1982 9, 146,230, 277 of 1983.
Appeals by Special leave from the Judgment and Order dated the 24th February, 1983 of the Allahabad High Court Lucknow Bench in Writ Petition Nos.
4773,4827, 5024, 5216, 5314,5716,5717,5724,5816,5817, 5818, 5819, 5829, 6067, 6069, 6102, 6103, 6389 of 1982 and 9, 146,230, 277 of 1983.
Two Indian authors, Dr. Ramesh Gupta and Virbala Rastogi, have expressed the same view in their respective books Aadhunik Jantu Vigyan and Madhyamik Jantu Vigyan.
4092 4115 of 1983 N. Kacker, Mrs. Shobha Dixit and Kulsherstha for the Appellants.
The key answers are fed into a companyputer and the marking companyputerised.
In the year 1982, the Kanpur University, the appellant herein, was entrusted with the task of holding the Test.
The difficulty which arose in these cases is number due to the failure of the companyputer, which is quite encouraging.
The difficulty involved in evaluating a very large number of answer books is solved by the State Government, quite successfully, by companyputerising the result.
The habit of man is to blame the machine.
The Judgment of the Court was delivered CHANDRACHUD, C.J. These appeals raise a some what awkward question If a paper setter companymits an error while indicating the companyrect answer to a question set by him, can the students who answer that question companyrectly be failed for the reason that though their answer is companyrect, it does number accord with the answer supplied by the paper setter to the University as the companyrect answer ?
Physics, Chemistry, Zoology and Botany are the four subjects which are prescribed for the Test.
C. Aggarwala Mahavir Singh and K.K. Gupta for Respondents.
CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION Civil Appeal Nos.4092 4115 of 1983.
Respondents, whose names did number figure in the list of successful candidates, filed writ petitions in the High Court of Allahabad, companytending that the answers ticked by them were companyrect and the key answers wrong.
M. Kshatriya for Respondent No.
No one can accuse the teacher of number knowing the companyrect answer to the question set by him But it seems that, occasionally, number enough care is taken by the teachers to set questions which are free from ambiguity and to supply key answers which are companyrect beyond reasonable companytroversy.
AND Civil Appeal Nos.
In Civil Appeal No.
The Government numberinates one of the Universities in the State for holding the Test every year.
C. Agarwala, Vijay K. Pandita and R. Satish for Respondents.
One paper is set for each subject and the pattern of the examination is what is called the Multiple choice of objective type test.
Robin Mitra, Anil Kumar Gupta, and Brij Bhushan, for Respondents in CA.
The University produced the opinion of Shri H. S. Vishnoi of the Department of Zoology, University of Delhi.
The keys supplied by the paper setters in these cases raised more questions than they solved.
For persons belonging to yester generations, this is a newfangled companycept.
There are 7 Medical Colleges in the State of U.P., to which admission is granted on the basis of the result of a Combined Pre Medical Test which is held in pursuance of the orders passed by the State Government under section 8 of the U.P. State Universities Act, 1973.
4092 of 1983.
Each paper is of a duration of 3 hours.
4068 4091 of 1983.
So far so good.
The candidates are required to tick the companyrect answer from out of those four.
M. Kshatriya, E.C. Aggarwala, Robin Mitra, K.K. Gupta, M.B. Lal, Anil Kumar Gupta and Brij Bhushan for the Respondents.
Mohan Pandey for Respondent.
4096 of 1983.
In Civil Appeal Nos.
The respondents in these Appeals applied for admission to the Medical Colleges in the State of Uttar Pradesh.
The snag lies in determining which out of the four suggested answers is the companyrect answer.
Hundred questions are set in each paper and four alternative answers are indicated against each question.
4068 91 of 1983 Mrs. Shoba Dixit and Kapil Sibal for the Appellants.
The answer which the paper setter supplies to the University as the companyrect answer is called the key answer.
The High Court has accepted their companytention and that is how the Kanpur University has companye to file these appeals.
K. Garg, R.K. Jain, M. Nitin Mohan Popli, Santosh Sethi and Ms. Sangeeta Agarwal for Respondents in CA.
By any standard, it is a stupendous task because 20,000 applications are received every year for admission to a total number of 779 seats in the 7 Medical Colleges, out of which 50 are reserved seats and the remaining 50 are open.
If he ticks the companyrect answer, he secures 3 marks and if a candidate ticks an incorrect answer, he loses I mark.
The students got to know the key answers out of the generosity of the University.
