The Allahabad High court yesterday dismissed petitions by candidates of UPTET to re-evaluate their answer sheets. Uttar Pradesh Teachers Eligibility
Test (UPTET) 2017 result was declared on 15 December 2017. As reported by Navbharat Times earlier, UPTET has witnessed a fail percentage of 89%.
Out of the total 9.76 lakh candidates who had appeared for the examination, only 89803 candidates have cleared the examination.Press Trust of India
reported that the petitioners alleged that owing to errors in the OMR (Optical Mark Reader) sheets due to wrongly filled registration number, roll number,
booklet series and language preference, their answer sheets were not evaluated. The court stated while dismissing the petitions, that there were clear instructions
in the examination booklet asking candidates to correctly fill up the OMR sheets.Justice M C Tripathi also observed that in the garb of minor discrepancies for
rectifying such 'human error' in the OMR sheets, the court cannot give any liberty to respondent authorities to intervene in the matter at this stage, which would
have very serious consequences on the 'fairness' of the entire selection process.
