condition that the answer
scripts of the writ petitioners are re-evaluated with the help of a
correct answer key and if they are found ... process of evaluation of the answer scripts by the
Commission but specifically averred that the “Model Answer Key” which
formed the basis for such evaluation
key-answer, that is to say, with an
answer which is demonstrated to be wrong. [82 B-D]
The publication of the key-answer ... correct answer ? The answer which the
paper-setter supplies to the University as the correct
answer is called the 'key answer
incorrect objective questions of Paper II and model answers
to another eight questions in model answers key of Paper II,
pursuant to which the respondent ... determined. ”
The other eight questions whose answers were found incorrect in the
earlier model answers key were re-evaluated on the basis of revised
model
answers in the written examination which, according
to them, had incorrect key answers. The learned Single Judge personally
examined those seven questions and concluded that ... Judge called for her answer sheets and
on a perusal thereof and on comparing her answers with the model or key
answers concluded that
independent
body to reassess the answers of all the questions and fresh model
answer key be released;
(ii) That it may be directed that ... basis of the corrected final
model answer key, the petitioners be reassessed and further
considered for the next step of the examination process;
(iii) That
against which several
writ petitions were filed questioning various answers
as per final answer key. The learned Single Judge
vide its judgment and order dated ... publication of answer key and action
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to be taken against those who are entrusted with the
preparation of key answers. At Jaipur also, writ
questions with multiple
choice answers. After the preliminary examination was conducted,
key answers were published by the Commission. Many persons
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including the petitioners before ... Allahabad High Court
contended that some of the key answers were incorrect or that some
of the questions had more than one correct answer
cannot be said with certainty that the answers to six questions given in the answer keys were erroneous and incorrect.
4. Briefly, the facts ... key answer's, as provided, and the correct answers are as under:
S.No. Quater Subject Answer as Per Correct
University Key Answer
that the students whose answers match with the
changed/altered/modified/cancelled 14 questions of the model answer
key will mean that they have cheated ... cause
notice. Such model answers, as per the arguments of Mr. Diwakar, were not
the answers leaked but the answer key prepared by the Paper
connected cases
variation contained therein, the answers thereto would also vary. And
yet, while marking the answers, same answers were treated as correct ... upon the expert decision for the evaluation of the answer sheets
based on the answer key provided by the Chief-examiner previously
and the answer
