Students on Tuesday challenged the Medical and Dental College Admission Test (MDCAT) results in the Lahore High Court Rawalpindi bench.
On a petition of prospective medicals students, the court issued notices to the testing company, the Pakistan Medical Commission (PMC) and the University of Health Sciences Lahore and sought replies from respondents on October 5.
Sardar Abdul Razaaq filed the petition on behalf of the students, who have taken the plea that the procedure followed, this time around, for the medical test was illegal.
The petitioners said that section 18 of PMC Act 2020 binds the conducting of tests across the country on the same date. However, they said, entrance tests were conducted online from August 30 to September 30 this year.
The petitioners said that all candidates in the same hall were given separate questions. They have alleged that some favourite candidates were given easy questions while the rest got out-of-syllabus questions.
The applicants said that there were poor arrangements in the test hall as many students complained about computer system and power supply breakdown.
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The petitioners alleged favourite students completed their tests within an hour, while others could not do it within the prescribed three hours' time. The petition said that a huge number of students got failed in the final results after which countrywide protests started.
The petitioners alleged that the contract given to the testing service was also illegal. Each student was charged Rs6,000 and some 200,000 candidates appeared in the entrance test across the country.
It said that the company given the contract was not registered at that time and an alleged corruption worth billions of rupees has been committed.
The petition has sought to declare the test conducted by the testing company and the contract illegal.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 29th, 2021.
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This was equivalent of being looted in broad daylight. 6000 rs just for test fee compared to 1500 rs un 2020. It was a planned robbery of the students.
what pmc did with students is quite shocking they did all illegal practices but the most shocking is the silence of gov moreover their cruelty with the students and torture shows gov s involvement in all this wrongdoing
Online system which they provided this year isn t acceptable please reconduct the test .We ll be very thankful to you for this thanks.
I agree with the petition as the same gas happened. It seems that favorites were rewarded. Questions came fro. Books of all textbook boards. Fee taken is in Billion. The owner rose to billionaire in a shot. Physical exam was better and should have been taken across the cou try on a single day
Their wasn t any kind of favouratism in test. My sister passed that test mashallah by herself