Delhi HC Asks DU To File "Proper Reply" In Plea For Holding Supplementary Exams Immediately After Final Semester [Read Petition]
Live LawThe Delhi High Court has asked the Delhi University to file a "proper reply" on the petition filed by final law year students of the Faculty of Law College, seeking permission to give their supplementary examinations for those exams which they have not passed in the first to fourth semesters. Agitating this change the Petitioners submitted, "The rule as existed before the college notice, a candidate gets a chance to clear the backlogs in two supplementary exams after the sixth semester, if he or she is not able to clear them during the routine semestral exams, therefore the first supplementary exam is conducted in June for final year students having backlogs from first, third, and fifth semester, while the second supplementary exam is conducted in August or September to clear second, fourth and sixth semester. "Before the said notification a final year student had three opportunities in each year to clear their backlog: two opportunities per regular semester and one more opportunity per supplementary exam. It was contended that the Petitioners cannot "overburden" the Faculty of Law by compelling it to hold separate supplementary exams for the failed students.