BDS student receives support from Sindh Ombudsman

KARACHI: In response to Ajaz Ali Khan's intervention, the University of Karachi fixed an OMR Key mistake and gave a revised second-year BDS result to a student of Karachi Medical and Dental College.

A statement from the Ombudsman Office in Karachi stated that Ms. Rieda Fatima filed a complaint in October 2021, saying that she was a Karachi and Medical and Dental College student, which was affiliated with the University of Karachi, and appeared in Pathology Supplementary Examination 2020. Still, she was declared "Fail" by awarding 39 marks.

In order to have her responses re-evaluated because of what she believed to be a technical error, she sought out the appropriate authorities and received no response. Then, she contacted the Ombudsman Secretariat for help.

Ombudsman orders the complaint to be investigated by Syed Qamar Razi Naqvi, who takes it up with the Registrar and Controller of Examinations of the University of Karachi.

However, the correct answers to the previous year's BDS Pathology theory were not in alphabetical order, according to a report from KU. Such a technical mistake, "OMR Key," had been inaccurate. After approval from a competent authority was remedied, a correct OMR Key was used to modify the results of the paper.