The Supreme Court on Tuesday, 22 September, asked the CBSE to declare results of compartment exams of around 2 lakh students as soon as possible, so that they could apply in colleges by the cut-off date.
A bench comprising Justices A.M. Khanwilkar and Sanjiv Khanna urged the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) and the University Grants Commission (UGC) to devise an arrangement on the issue.
Senior advocate Vivek Tankha, representing petitioners, submitted before the bench that the compartment exams have been underway from 22 to 29 September, and if the college admissions were over before the results were announced then the students would lose out on the opportunity for the current academic year.
The bench asked the UGC that this being a peculiar situation and could it explore making some room for students taking the compartment exam.
According to CBSE, around 1,50,198 students…
