FMGE Exam: Delhi High Court Instructs National Board of Examinations to Delete Disputed Question In FMGE

FMGE Exams: The Delhi High Court has directed the National Board of Examinations (NBE) to treat the disputed question of the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination held in December 2020 as deleted. All those candidates will be awarded one extra mark who were assessed as having answered it incorrectly. The present petition was filed by the Association of MD Physicians, which were concerned over the FMGE conducted on 4th December 2020. The Association of MD Physicians was represented by advocates Adit S Pujari and Kajal Dalal.

Statement of Justice Prateek Jalan

"The respondent is directed to treat the disputed question (set out in paragraph 4 above) as deleted from the FMGE (December 2020), and to award one extra mark to those candidates who were assessed as having answered it incorrectly. In the event any candidate thus achieves the passing score of 150 marks, they would be treated as having passed the FMGE (December 2020). The directions be complied with within four weeks from today."

Petition by Association of MD Physicians

The petitioner has sought in the present petition to grant of one additional mark to the candidates who took the FMGE (December 2020) claiming one extra mark is based on the contention that one of the questions in the examination had no correct answer and was, therefore, a patently erroneous question.

The petitioner association consists of Indian citizens who hold degrees in Medicine from foreign universities. In order to register themselves with the Medical Council of India (now National Medical Commission), foreign medical graduates are required to take a screening test called the Foreign Medical Graduate Examination (FMGE), which is conducted by the respondent National Board of Examinations.

FMGE Result

National Board of Examinations (NBE) has released the FMGE 2021 result at natboard.edu.in on 30th June in PDF format. Candidates who have secured at least 150 marks out of 300 are considered qualified in the FMGE exam. On 18th June, NBE conducted FMGE 2021 June session with extra protective measures such as social distancing, issuance of COVID E-Pass, staggered entry at the test centres, negative COVID report, face masks, COVID-19 protective safety kit and others.