KARACHI: Medical admission Final list of candidates to be slightly different
By Our Staff Reporter
KARACHI, Oct 19: The final list of candidates selected for admission to MBBS and BDS classes in the government medical colleges planned to be released by the Sindh health department on Oct 23 would be slightly different from the provisional list.
Official sources said certain reshuffling would be seen in the merit lists, particularly in the case of Dow and Sindh medical colleges, as some of the objections to the first list had been found valid. A couple of candidates who could not find a place among the first 372 names for the medical colleges in Karachi list were now in and entitled to admission, the sources added.
It has been learnt that Bahria University, which conducted the entrance test for admission to the Sindh medical colleges for the first time, has handed over the revised list of 7,090 candidates to the Sindh health department. The health department would made the list public on Oct 23, Wednesday, as announced earlier.
The provisional lists had been announced on Oct 5 and candidates were required to submit objections on a prescribed form, prepared by the test- conducting agency latest by Oct 16. A number of students applied for review claiming that either the marks awarded in the entrance test or aggregate marks calculated in terms of their past academic records (Intermediate and matriculation examinations marks) had not been not worked out correctly.
A couple of major corrections had been done, following which about nine students had been awarded additional marks ranging from 10 to 50 and above. A girl student from Karachi had secured 360 marks, but only 260 marks were shown against her name in the first list, so she had not been able to make it among the first 373 candidates, the sources said.
Giving details of the claim cases, Vice Admiral Masood M. Biabani (retd), the rector of Bahria University, here in his office on Saturday said too few were the number of claims, ie, 0.5 per cent of the total cases. He said the objection cases reduced only because the examinees were already provided with carbon copies of their answers and a master key of the test as well, which helped them to assess their position themselves, and not to fall in doubt unnecessarily.
He said of the 60 claims, only 13 were found valid: 11 from Karachi and one each from Hyderabad and Larkana centres. However, he maintained that the reshuffling due to change in the marks obtained by candidates was minor. Most of the candidates who had already made it for admission would remain unaffected.
He attributed the errors to computers, and said some errors were also due to unintentional typographical mistakes. Bahria University was assigned the task of conducting the entrance test on a very short notice, but the task was carried out in a fool proof manner at all the three centres of examinations, Hyderabad, Larkana and at the University, he claimed, saying the BU would conduct the entrance test for the Sindh medical colleges in future also.
The sources said 10 of the 34 claims by Karachi-based students were found correct, and in the case of past academic marks calculation all the 17 applications were found correct.
