Ranked lower, older students cry foul

Object to ACPC ranking previous yrs' pass-outs below current ones in entrance test merit list

- Niyati Rana

In a move that has been labelled as biased against previous year's diploma pass-outs, the Gujarat education department and Admission Committee for Professional Courses (ACPC) has taken a serious step. It has decided to place diploma pass-outs from earlier years behind those passing in the current year in the merit list for Diploma to Degree Common Entrance Test (DDCET).

This has drawn criticism from a section of students who, in a written representation to the ACPC and Gujarat Technological University (GTU), have argued that when diploma to degree admissions are based on an entrance test, the test score, and not the year of passing out, should be a factor to determine merit rank.