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UHS entrance test criteria 60pc marks

Court sets aside UHS entrance test criteria
Lahore, Sep 07: A division bench of the Lahore High Court on Monday declared illegal the eligibility criteria of 65 per cent or equivalent marks in FSc set by the Punjab government for appearance for the medical entrance test, reducing the criteria down to 60 per cent in line with PMDC’s policy.
The bench comprising Justice Sheikh Azmat Saeed and Justice Chaudhry Shahid Saeed observed this while disposing of several identical writ petitions challenging the process of the entrance test for the MBBS.
Advocates Muhammad Azhar Siddique, Mian Abdul Qaddus, Nasir Mehmood Qureshi, and Mian Qamar uz Zaman presented different petitioners.
In its short order, the court ruled that the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMDC) was the regulatory body and all the medical universities and colleges should follow its guidelines.
The court also directed the Punjab government and the University of Health Sciences (UHS) to arrange special entrance test for the students who had secured 60 per cent or above marks in F.SC exams but had not appeared in the entry test because the test was held prior to announcement of FSc result.
All students who had appeared in the test held in July are eligible to apply for MBBS admission to all universities in line with regulations set by the PMDC. The court also declared illegal 60 per cent minimum passing marks set by UHS and ruled that there would be no passing percentage for the test.
The PMDC had told the bench that the council had issued unified rules and regulations for the test throughout Pakistan. The Punjab government and the University of Health Sciences were duty-bound to abide by the rules. As per PMDC criteria, a student passing F.Sc (Pre medical) exam with at least 60 per cent marks was eligible to appear in entrance test, but the Punjab government had overlooked the rules and held the entrance test before the announcement of the FSc. He pleaded that result of the entrance test should be stopped because it would not provide equal opportunities to all students through out Pakistan. He said that, under the rules set by the Punjab government, students with 60 or 65 per cent marks would not be able to sit in the test. The counsels pleaded that the entry tests were being held prior to the announcement of the F.Sc. result, resulting in the prohibition of the petitioners to participate in the entry test.
He said that the holding the test in such a manner was a violation of fundamental rights as envisaged in the constitution and also in clear cut violation of the mandatory instructions issued by the PMDC. The counsel said that the eligible criteria for the entrance test in all the other provinces was 60 per cent marks in F.Sc. and one needed at leat 50 per cent marks in the test to pass it.
The UHS and the chairman admission board for medical/dental institutions of Punjab, without any approval from the PMDC, had declared 65 per cent marks as the eligibility criteria in 2009. He pointed out that, in the same year, the respondents -going a step further and negating the regulations of the PMDC – had increased the passing marks from 40 to 60 per cent. Advocate Azhar Siddique requested the court to declare the criteria for the test given by the respondents without any lawful authority, in conflict of article 9,25, 37 and 38 of the constitution and violative of the instructions of the PMDC. The news
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