More Writ petitions and cases against the equi-percentile calculation process of DTE Maharashtra in MAH CET 2015 result are coming up in the courts of Maharashtra. The flow is not getting stopped and more cases are filed by the dissatisfied candidates in the courts of their cities in Maharashtra state with each passing day. All the exercise is to make the DTE aware of the injustice done to the MAH CET 2015 test takers in award of percentile by adopting a process that has pushed the high scorer to low percentile while the low scorer has got a higher percentile.
Surprisingly the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE) Maharashtra the MAH CET 2015 conducting authority is neither responding to any query of the test takers nor has come forward with the explanation as to why it adopted a process which has created such an anomaly in award of percentile scores in MAH CET 2015 result leading to MBA/MMS admission to 2015-17 batch.
Court cases in many Maharashtra Cities
The PIL Writs have been filed not only in Mumbai High Court but also with the 2 of its benches situated at Nagpur and Aurangabad. All of the PILs demand Re-exam for MAH CET 2015 which was marred with technical and test questions related problems.
Hope for Justice from Judiciary now: Candidates feel
With no positive signs received from DTE Maharashtra to redress their genuine grievances and number of Deans & Directors of high ranked institutes agreeing directly or indirectly regarding the unfair treatment meted out to many MAH CET 2015 test takers, candidates are now left with no option but to approach High Court of Maharashtra to get justice.
Adamant DTE
DTE Maharashtra contends that the process adopted by it in calculation of equated scores across all the sessions is correct while the contention of the candidates is that the process of equi percentile is applicable to the multiple sessions with equal difficulty level and according to this criteria how the high scorer can be pushed back to low percentile in comparison to the low scorer being awarded high percentile.
Hundreds of dis-satisfied candidates met Dr S K Mahajan, Director DTE in the presence of Kavita Laghate, Director JBIMS. The Director JBIMS although agreed that statistically the process was correct but the decision making authority is DTE to redress the grievances of the affected test takers. In view of the experts the statistically correct process may not be correct ethically also, unless the exam had no issue of faulty questions, technical problems. However no solution could be arrived at even after a long meeting.
Education Ministry: No redressal
Maharashtra Education Minister was also of no help to address the grievances of the MAH CET 2015 test takers. Candidates met the higher and technical education minister Vinod Tawde, apprising him with their concern and requesting for re-exam. The delegation of test takers included the minister's nephew, Parth Tawde who is also adversely affected. According to Parth Tawde, at some centres students were allowed cell phones, the invigilation was weak. If these students are getting an unfair advantage over students who have really studied hard for the last one year, it needs to be addressed.
As all politicians do, the Maharashtra Education Minister also assured of all help to the candidates but till date instead of getting any positive response from DTE Maharashtra, candidates have started fearing of losing their admission opportunity in good B schools due to the rigid attitude of DTE Maharashtra
Test takers demand transparency: DTE winks
Despite tall claims by DTE Maharashtra that fair play and level playing field has been provided to all the test takers, the test conducting authority has not shared which questions in each session were not included for evaluation and what the problem was in that question. According to the affected candidates Normalisation process should be made transparent, detailed findings of the expert panel should be made public. Issues like technical glitches, mass copying at some centres, server crash are not going to be resolved by DTE, it appears.
DTE to take inspiration from XLRI
XLRI immediately after conducting XAT 2015 on January 4, 2015 published in public domain the question paper, solutions, scoring process and percentile calculation process. DTE Maharashtra can also follow suit.
According to the test takers the fair way to calculate percentile was to do it on the basis of marks obtained out of 200. But what DTE did is that it applied some interpolation method taking scores of slot 2 as base and calculated equated score and then percentile based on equated score. This created a huge difference for slot 1 candidates.
Highly dissatisfied with the methodology adopted by DTE Maharashtra in MAH CET 2015 declaration of percentile across sessions, the test takers are now worried about their future as they think despite high scores but lower percentiles, their admission to top B schools like JBIMS, SIMSREE, KJ Somaiya, PUMBA among others may not materialize.
DTE files Caveat
Fearing that Stay order could be granted on the Writ petition of MAH CET 2015 test takers by the High Court of Maharashtra and due to this fact academic session may be delayed, DTE has filed Caveat in the court.
While Dr S K Mahajan, Director DTE Maharashtra is not responding to any query on the issue, State Education minister Vinod Tawade has confirmed "Everything was verified after receiving their complaints and only then we reached the conclusion that there is no need for a re-examination. However, if students still want to move court that is their right. We have already filed a caveat in court so that the admissions process is not delayed.”
To respond to the PIL filed in the court by the candidates, DTE officials requested the court to grant 3 weeks’ time to file a reply but the court has granted them 2 weeks. Why the DTE needs even 2 weeks to submit the reply is anybody’s guess. When entire process is transparent and based on facts, DTE could submit the reply in 3-4 days. In fact DTE itself is worried about the curving abnormality in the calculation process and hence is buying more time to put it straight.
CAP 2015 in June
One of the DTE officials present in the court requested the bench that ordering a stay may not be required as the centralized admission process (CAP) rounds are likely to start in June.
Now this is another surprising revelation by DTE official since CAP begins in the month of May and the final merit list is declared by the end of May. But it appears that CAP 2015 is to begin only in June 2015 and when the DTE would declare the final merit list is known to DTE only.
Road Ahead
Now since the matter is sub-judice and Caveat having been filed by DTE Maharashtra in High court of Maharashtra, the candidates may or may not be granted stay order by the apex court of the State. In case the stay is granted on the PIL filed by the aggrieved students, DTE might come up with some solution or re-exam if Hon’ble court orders it. But in any case the academic session might be delayed and the future of many candidates might be at stake.
MBAUniverse.com hopes for an early solution to the issue so that no injustice is met to any of the 57224 MAH CET 2015 test takers.
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