Supreme Court dismisses GMC students’ petition seeking revaluation

Panaji: Supreme Court dismissed a special leave petition filed by Goa Medical College students challenging a high court order which refused to direct revaluation of their answer books.

“We are not inclined to interfere with the impugned judgment and order passed by the high court; hence, the special leave petition is dismissed,” said the SC bench.


The students went to the high court (HC) seeking directions to the Goa University to conduct re-evaluation of their answer books in respect of the third professional (final year) MBBS part II examination (supplementary), which was held in April–May last year..

In the alternative, they sought re-examination of the answer sheets of all students who failed that examination.

They stated that they were given the opportunity only to apply for verification, but not for re-evaluation. After the verification was carried out, all of them were again shown to have failed, and there were no changes in their marks.

The high court, in its final order on Dec 4, 2025, dismissed their petition after observing that there was an absence of a provision for re-evaluation and a specific bar mentioned in the ordinances for re-evaluation.

The high court observed that there was no error committed by the Goa University in not permitting them to make any application for re-evaluation.

HC held that when the students appeared for the examination, the bar imposed under the Ordinance OA-5 for revaluation operated in full force, not permitting them to make any application for re-evaluation.