The Allahabad High Court has made an important decision regarding the results of the Uttar Pradesh Teacher Eligibility Test (UPTET) 2026. The court directed the Uttar Pradesh Education Selection Committee (UPESSC) to exclude two questions from the evaluation process.
These two questions were controversial because the committee's final answer key acknowledged that two options were correct for them. The court ruled that these questions must be excluded from the assessment to recalculate candidates' scores.
Judge Vinod Diwakar issued this ruling after considering a petition filed on behalf of Vijay Sonkar and three other candidates. The plaintiffs presented questions to the court concerning the exam evaluation and the final answer key.
The High Court instructed the committee to conduct a re-calculation of scores for the petitioners, as well as make necessary adjustments to their results and result cards.
In its decision, the High Court also clarified that the issued order should not be limited only to the petitioners. The committee is obliged to provide the benefit to all candidates in a similar situation. This means that the advantage will not only be gained by those students who chose one of the options recognized as correct in the final answer key for the disputed questions.
Following this ruling, the committee must exclude both questions from the UPTET 2026 evaluation and adjust the scores and result cards of the respective candidates.
It should be noted that the dispute arose over two questions in the final answer key of UPTET 2026. The committee admitted that for these two questions, not one but two options were correct. Nevertheless, during the evaluation process, scores were awarded only to candidates who chose one of the options accepted by the committee for these questions.
Vijay Sonkar and three other candidates challenged this system in the Allahabad High Court. Their argument was that since the committee itself acknowledged two options as correct for both questions, the difference in scores between candidates should not be determined based on these questions. The plaintiffs demanded that the results be recalculated after excluding these two questions from the evaluation.
After reviewing the case, the bench headed by Judge Vinod Diwakar decided to exclude both questions from the evaluation. The court required the committee to adjust the scores and result cards of the petitioners, while emphasizing that the benefit of this decision should be provided not only to the petitioners but to all candidates in a similar situation.