PAAVANI GUPTA Vs. CENTRAL BOARD OF SECONDARY EDUCATION

JUDGEMENT

(1.) This appeal is directed against the judgement dated 04.07.2019, passed by the learned Single Judge dismissing WP(C) No.7062/2019 filed by the appellant/petitioner seeking directions to the respondent/Central Board of Secondary Education (in short CBSE ) to conduct a re-valuation of the marks obtained by her in class 12th CBSE AISSCE Examination, conducted in March, 2019.

(2.) The facts of the case as set out in the writ petition are that the appellant was a student in Delhi Public School, RK Puram with an outstanding academic and extra-curricular career. In the examination conducted by the respondent/CBSE in March, 2019, the appellant had sat for the exams in the subjects of Accountancy, Economics, Business Studies, Mathematics and English Core. The marks she had secured were as follows: 98/100 in Accountancy, 98/100 in Economics, 96/100 in Business Studies, 95/100 in Mathematics and 72/100 in English Core, with a total percentage of 91.8%.

(3.) Dissatisfied with the marks secured by her, particularly in English Core, the appellant applied for rechecking/re-evaluation of her answer sheets as per the policy of the respondent/CBSE. The modalities prescribed by the respondent/CBSE for this purpose is in three stages. Stage one is of verification of marks, Stage two permits obtaining of a photocopy of the evaluated answer books and Stage three is of re-valuation. On 04.05.2019, the appellant applied for verification of her marks. Upon verification, the respondent/CBSE notified the appellant on 08.05.2019, that there was no mistake found in the calculation of the marks awarded to her. On 20.05.2019, the appellant applied for obtaining photocopies of the evaluated answer books of all four subjects, namely, English Core, Accountancy, Business Studies and Economics. On 23.05.2019, she received photocopies of these answer sheets alongwith the marking scheme on the basis whereof the answer sheets of each subject were evaluated/checked by the respondent/CBSE. On 25.05.19, the appellant applied for re-valuation of marks in three subjects, namely, English Core, Accountancy and Economics, submitting alongwith it, a detailed chart with reasons for seeking revaluation of marks in these three subjects.