RGUHS implements current evaluation system even for repeaters

The Rajiv Gandhi University of Health Sciences (RGUHS) has issued an evaluation ordinance implementing the current evaluation system even for repeaters of undergraduate students of batches of 2018-19 or before.

As per the order issued following a decision taken at the syndicate meeting held on April 4, 2025, even for repeaters, the marks from the best of the two evaluations will be considered. At present, for repeaters, the university is considering average marks from four evaluations.

This has been a long-standing demand of repeater students, even as they held protests demanding the same, some even approached the court over the same. The university wrote to the National Medical Commission (NMC) and with the Commission raising no objection to making the change, the Syndicate passed an ordinance to consider the evaluation norms followed for freshers, even for repeaters.

“The low pass percentage among repeaters was due to the existing evaluation system — to consider an average of four evaluations. Now even for repeaters the best of two evaluations will be applicable,” said the officials of RGUHS. Pass percentage among repeaters was not more than 45%, sources said.

MBBS students from the 2018-19 batch, at the forefront of the demand for this change, have welcomed the decision. “There was so much disparity in the marks awarded by four evaluators. I myself experienced this — one evaluator marked me 70 marks while another marked 10 marks from the same answer sheet,” he said.