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The Kerala High Court has dismissed a petition filed by a fewer CBSE students regarding the prospectus for admittance to nonrecreational grade courses, 2026, issued by the Kerala government. The plea challenged the taxable weightage and standardisation look incorporated successful the prospectus with respect to the mentation of the fertile database for engineering courses.
The students submitted that the caller standardised method created “great prejudice to the students of CBSE arsenic it is implemented without immoderate adept study.” In the entranceway introspection conducted successful Kerala, a standardisation process was brought successful 2012 to support uniformity among students from antithetic boards similar CBSE, ICSE, and the Kerala Board of Public Examination, and this process had continued till 2025.
The Commissioner for Entrance Examinations contended that the authorities was entitled to stipulate prescriptions successful the prospectus reflecting its argumentation successful matters regarding admittance to nonrecreational courses. He besides claimed that the caller process would not enactment students astatine a disadvantage.
The Single Bench of Justice Bechu Kurian Thomas remarked that the caller strategy of standardisation was a substance of authorities policy, and the courts could lone interfere successful circumstances of explicit arbitrariness oregon prejudice. After examining the past of the standardisation strategy adopted by the authorities successful 2012 and 2025, the tribunal dismissed the petitions, saying that determination was nary quality regarding the powerfulness of the authorities to alteration the strategy and the strategy of introspection and evaluation, and hence the situation by the students was not legally tenable.
