THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, January 24: The undergraduate medical education board (UGMEB) of the National Medical Commission has been sweet and sour for medical students in India.
Supplementary exams
First, the sweetish part. The UGMEB has retained the provision of the supplementary exams from the first-year medical course to the final year medical course.
It’s a significant relief to those medical students who pluck in any of the years between their first and final years. Failed medical students will have an opportunity to take the supplementary exams.
Internal assessment
Again, the UGMEB has given clarity on the internal assessment. Internal assessment ‘will not be counted as a separate head of passing for the university examinations’.
However, a student has to be declared ‘eligible’ to appear for the university examinations based on the internal assessment done by the college authorities.
The UGMEB has made changes in the scoring of the marks. The passing criteria are now 50 per cent aggregate in theory and practical with a minimum cap of 40 per cent marks in each theory and practical to achieve 50 per cent aggregate marks.
Thus, a medical student must achieve 50 percent of the aggregate marks. It is effective from 1.8.2023.
However, the UGMEB has sour things for the MBBS students, which they will rue unless they try hard to avoid plucking in any subject from now onwards.
No 5 grace marks
There will now be no 5 grace marks for one subject in which a medical student has failed by 5 or within 5 marks.
This scrapping of 5 grace marks is effective from 1.8.2023, according to the note of the UGMEB, a copy of which is with the Jharkhand Story. A failed medical student by 5 marks cannot get promoted now. They have to clear their failed subject by all means.
The UGMEB of the NMC came out with its CBME (competency-based medical education) curriculum regulations on 1.8.2023, scrapping the provision of 5 grace marks in one failed subject of the MBBS student.
The regulations maintain that irrespective of the batch, whether it is 2019 or 2020,2021,2022, if a medical student appears in any exams ‘after the publication of this regulation dated 1.8.2023 will have no 5 grace marks.”
MMCH students are big loser
Here in the MMCH Daltonganj, there will be losers only as exams are terribly late, even for batch 2022 medical students. Theirexams could not be held before August 2023, and now, by this regulation dated 1.8.2023, these 2022 batch medical students will take exams in 2024 and thus will be out of the benefit of 5 grace marks which could have been theirs had their exams got over before August 2023.
The controller of exams at Nilamber Pitamber University, Dr M K Deepak, said efforts are being made to hold university exams for the 2022 batch in the first week of February.
Here it is opportune to mention that UGMEB of the NMC has issued clarification regarding supplementary exams, internal assessment, 5 grace marks, etc, in response to a volley of queries put forward by Sandeep Sitaram Kadu, who is the controller of exams in the Maharashtra University of health sciences, Dindori.
