Hyderabad: The Telangana high court has dismissed a writ appeal challenging a single judge’s order that refused to halt the results of the TS SET-2024 history paper II examination.The appellants had sought a re-examination of allegedly defective questions and requested the court to withhold the results until an expert committee reviewed the paper. However, the division bench held that the single judge’s decision required no interference. In their petition, the aspirants sought compensatory marks for 39 questions they claimed were defective. They also requested the cancellation and re-conduct of the history paper II examination. TS SET examination was held on Sept 10, 2024. A preliminary answer key was released on Sept 23, 2024, and candidates were given a window to submit objections between Oct 3 and Oct 11. After reviewing the objections, a subject expert committee finalised the answer key and the results were declared on Nov 16, 2024. Court records showed that the appellants submitted several representations to the authorities between Nov 2024 and Aug 2025. However, they approached the court only on Sept 15, 2025 — nearly a year after the results were declared.Material placed before the court also showed that the subject expert committee had already identified 25 defective questions and awarded compensatory marks to all candidates. The appellants argued that 14 additional defective questions were not considered, which they claimed could lead to evaluation anomalies. Delay proves costlyCounsel for the higher education department told the court that the appellants had not submitted any objections within the official window provided in Oct 2024. The department also pointed to the delay in challenging the results. Taking note of the timeline and the expert committee’s findings, the division bench found no grounds to interfere with the single judge’s order. Referring to Supreme Court precedents on similar examination disputes, the bench dismissed the appeal, citing the delay in approaching the court.
