Daijiworld Media Network - Bengaluru (SP)

Bengaluru, May 31: The state government told the state high court on Monday May 30 that no grace marks had been granted to PU students in any of the subjects this year.

A division bench comprising Chief Justice, S K Mukherjee, and Justice Ravi Malimath, which has taken up a petition filed by Bhuvanajyothi Education Society from Mangaluru in this regard, was told by the government as above through a statement. "After allegations were heard that seven questions in mathematics question paper were out of syllabus, a committee of experts had been formed to look into the issue. The report of the committee said that none of the questions were outside the syllabus," government advocate, R Devadas, told the court.

The petitioner had referred to media reports which had claimed that PU students will get 21 grace marks for seven wrong questions. It had argued that students who were pursuing central syllabus will face injustice because of these grace marks.